The Gay Space Kitten

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

started working out in the gym doing plyometrics and gained muscle which meant gaining weight and i felt bad. but then i realized my watt ftp on the bike jumped from 200 to 255 within the year and now i am okay with the weight gain because i will never be shredded. i need those carbs to ride my bike for hours

Fitness influences are literally walking advertisements. Their body is their job, you know what I mean? So just like any other product, they're trying to sell you a very idealized image of reality. Even the very fit people and very strong people I know in real life often don't look like fitness influencers (except the owner of the gym I go to, which again, he OWNS A GYM. His body is an advertisement + he's a spiders georg of fitness). I love people like LeanBeefPatty and Eugene Teo and HybridFitness and Coach John Noel, I think they're cool and fun. I lost my train of thought. Anyway.

Even if your goal was to lose fat*, the scale is a really bad way to measure it. As you discovered it ONLY reflects your weight and doesn't account for a million things like water and muscle and aerobic capacity y'know. Your weight can fluctuate as much as 10lbs in one day!

It's much better to focus on things like your run time, the weights you can lift**, progress photos, or the way you feel after you eat different foods (everyone get more fiber focused NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eat more veggies and fruits! For the sake of your asshole!)

ANYWAY!

Your body reflects the things you do. So if you're doing better on the bike, that must mean your body adapted to "doing better on the bike"! Great job!

* Other people's bodies and how they choose to modify them is ultimately none of my business. I obviously have my own biases but at the end of the day I don't care-- as in, I wouldn't treat them differently-- if someone I know lost fat, same as I wouldn't care if someone gained fat.

RUPERT GILES & BUFFY SUMMERS