FAT TAKES UP LESS SPACE THAN MUSCELS ?!?!

Nope, sorry, it's the opposite. Fat takes up more space than muscle.

Sizes vary from store to store, brand to brand, and sometimes even within the same brand. Just because you wear an 8 in one specific pair of pants doesn't mean you can wear an 8 in a pants.

If you're losing inches that's all that matters, your pant size be damned.

No, muscle definitely takes up less space than fat.

What you are experiencing is that the fat, although it takes up more space, is also more malleable. So when you pull your jeans up, the excess fat on your butt is pressed into spaces it really shouldn't be in order to make the jeans fit you. When you have a nice, perky, muscular but, everything stays where it belongs.

edited for poor typing skills.

They weigh the same

alright y'all hears the deal I lost 1 1/2 inches off my booty but I gained a pant size :noway: how that is possible I don't know??? I was in size 8 now im in size 10 :mad: what the heck ??? i'm thinking muscel takes more space I weigh 185 an im 5'7 but its evenly placed fat every where all over :ohwell: most people think I weigh 150 but I know the real number good lord how am I supposed to workout without growing my booty any insight on a non-booty growing workout would be awesome :happy:

Also if you people think you look 150 but you are 185 that also goes along with the fact that a pound of muscle takes up less space then a pound of fat.

You do realize that if you actually did lose inches it's impossible for you to go up a pants size, because you lost size, right?

Unless it's a different brand of pants, or a different cut of pants, or the material has less stretch or give or any of 100 very reasonable things that drive many of us crazy about the fashion industry. . .

Well yeah, I just assumed if somebody was using that as a unit of measure they would use the same exact brand and style. I know I'm a 38 in dockers, and a 36 in Levi's jeans so I wouldn't compare those to each other to see if I gained or lost size. I guess I also shouldn't assume with all the different things I have seen on here over the years haha.

If you tone muscle then it will just pull in fat, but if you do squats ext it will gain a bit of size. I ride horses as my job so have quite a bit of muscle, I used to think ot was fat but it still didn't really bother me. Then I had major surgery on my knee and had massive muscle wastage on one leg. And it was SO SKINNY I was so surprised, i didn't think my legs could be so skinny! So yes muscle does takes up a lot of room, but I don't know if its necessarily more than fat, it just ads on size to the fat. I have gained about half the £muscle back now but one leg is still thinner than the other. However I'm having surgery on the other leg soon so the will match after that haha.

EDIT: just so you know I got this much muscle through 12 years of working my legs and 4 years of riding between 3 to 8 times a week, so you wouldn't have gained that much muscle just through work outs. Have you actually measured yourself, its probably just a different brand.

:laugh: haha... no im talking about putting on the same exact pair of jeans I wore a month ago and they don't fit and yes I went down an inch and a half but im the unlucky type of female that gains muscle quickly I believe the correct term is "mesomorph" body type while going down an inch in a half off my booty I gained almost an inch and a half in my thighs sorry I should of been more specific my booty is perky :blushing: so I should be asking how to not gain muscle in my thighs sorry

you are not gaining muscle eating at a deficet....

you do that by lifting heavy and eating at a surplus...

Maybe the jeans got shrunk..or you are retaining water.

:laugh: haha... no im talking about putting on the same exact pair of jeans I wore a month ago and they don't fit and yes I went down an inch and a half but im the unlucky type of female that gains muscle quickly I believe the correct term is "mesomorph" body type while going down an inch in a half off my booty I gained almost an inch and a half in my thighs sorry I should of been more specific my booty is perky :blushing: so I should be asking how to not gain muscle in my thighs sorry

So wouldn't the jeans still fit then, but just be tighter on your thighs? I'm missing something I think. If you are doing some heavy leg workouts, I would say it's just water weight, if you are just doing light weight lifting, and a lot of cardio I would say you jeans shrunk, and you just need to stretch them back out.

:laugh: haha... no im talking about putting on the same exact pair of jeans I wore a month ago and they don't fit and yes I went down an inch and a half but im the unlucky type of female that gains muscle quickly I believe the correct term is "mesomorph" body type while going down an inch in a half off my booty I gained almost an inch and a half in my thighs sorry I should of been more specific my booty is perky :blushing: so I should be asking how to not gain muscle in my thighs sorry

FYI the whole Mesomoph is totally debunked

a 5 pound ream of paper weighs the same as a 5 pound bag of feathers.

Sure, but the feathers take up a ****ton more space...

a 5 pound ream of paper weighs the same as a 5 pound bag of feathers.

Sure, but the feathers take up a ****ton more space...

Not in outer space.

am I doing this right?

Because I like to be scientific:

Human body fat: 0.918 grams per cubic centimeter
Human muscle: 1.049 grams per cubic centimeter

Water (@4c): 1.000 grams per cubic centimeter
Water (@20c): 0.998 grams per cubic centimeter

This would be why fat floats to the top of the water, and muscle does not.

For fun take the amount of weight you have lost and divide that by 8.34.
The answer is the number of gallons of water it would take to equal the weight you have lost.
So 20lbs/8.34 = 2.398 gallons of water
Picture how big two 1 gallon jugs are. Now remember that the same weight in fat would take up even more space.