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Visceral fat matters!

While I was doing strong lifts, I ate a lot of food. I basically stuffed myself every 3 hours. And I think that was a bad thing. I think the body cannot take a sudden huge inflow of calories. And it has a nice way of showing that I am eating over the limit. If you look at my photo right after the strong lifts season you will notice the effect of over eating. Here it is again




I have a belly now. And it is not the soft flabby fat at the lower part of the midsection. Before I explain I should first start with the types of body fat that effect the midsection. So there are 2 types of fat - subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat is the fat that settles at the lower part of midsection. This is soft and you can measure the fat by pinching your skin and measuring the thickness. Visceral fat is the fat that surrounds the internal organs. This is hard and settles in the upper part of midsection. You cannot pinch it. Although I had some flab I noticed that the upper portion was protruding more. And why wouldn't it? I am putting on a lot of visceral fat.

Thanks to my omoron body fat measuring scale I was able to track my visceral fat along with subcutaneous fat. I started with visceral fat of 3 and at the end of my overeating days it was showing 4. Not a lot of difference on the scale but I noticed it a lot on my body. With my tiny frame any little increase in visceral fat will immediately show on me. My next objective is to reduce the fat and especially visceral fat because it is also the cause of many diseases.
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