very muscular man doing bicep curls with a curling bar

I was a skinny kid. Very skinny. At 16, I was 5’ 10” tall and weighed 140 lbs. It was 1981 and Schwarzenegger was the action hero of the day. I wanted a body like his, not the sad stringy thing that genetics had handed me. It didn’t help that I seemed to be surrounded…

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overweight man on couch eating pizza and watching tv

If you’ve ever been on a weight loss diet you may have wondered why your body stores fat in the first place? Of course, we all know that if we eat more calories than our body burns, we’ll gain weight and if we eat less, we’ll lose weight. But what kind of weight? What tells…

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