Lean muscle burns about three times as many calories as fat, so if you squeeze in strengh sessions a week, your body will automatically zap up to 150 extra calories every day, even when you’re sitting on the couch.
Source - self.com
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Can you explain this in English please 
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Awesome nj awsome.
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loving this thread NJ :k:
keep it up!
NIKI what she is trying to say is that you can be sitting on your couch eating chocolates (or in your case buttered popcorn) and still be burning calories while at rest. 
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^:omg:
leave my co mod alone!!
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1- Cardio first or strenght training?
2- Please share some of the strength training excercises you guys do.
Thankyou.
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^how is neck ?
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so if you replaced all your fat with lean muscle, you'd burn a lot of fat and never get fat. hmmm..
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not surgically :nono:
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This is right. The more muscle mass you have the more calories you burn, as compared to fat. 1lb of fat contains around 3500calories and burns around only 3-5 calories a day if doing nothing, and ofcourse to get rid of 3500 calories of fat (1lb) you gotta workout so intensely to burn 3500 calories a day, which is literally impossible.
A gram of protein contains 4 calories while a gram of fat contains 9. The less your body fat %, the better your metabolism rate and more quickly are you burning calories , even when doing nothing.
thats what i was trying to say as well. 
thanks FF…your posts are always educational.
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****** Waist measurement is now believed to be a much more accurate measure of future health risk than BMI alone. *****
Instead of being distributed evenly around the hips, arms and legs, the overweight stocked as fatty acids is piled up in the stomach muscles and in vital organs.
For Men, a waist measurement exceeding 37 inches is associated with potential diseases and a waist measurement exceeding 40 inches is associated with substantial health risk.
For Women, a waist measurement exceeding 32 inches is associated with potential diseases and a waist measurement exceeding 35 inches is associated with substantial health risk.
TO DO: Measure your waist today!