I’m a black belt in karate and Im also on a summer league and highschool swimteam, and I weigh 167lbs. I don’t eat any differently than the healthier and slimmer girls on my swimteam and I actually excercise more in an attempt to lose weight and I don’t get why Im still overweight. I read somewhere that you can look bigger by building muscle under your fat, and I think that’s my problem. I always wondered why my legs were exceptionally big when my kicks in karate were so high and so powerful compared to everyone else’s in my class. When I heard about the "muscle under fat" idea, I was furious because I didn’t know how to burn fat instead of gain muscle. Swimming for my highschool includes running near a mile everyday and then jumping jacks, vertical jumps in and out of the pool, pushups, situps, crunches, and tons of other workouts that I thought would burn fat. HELP!!! : (

It is extremely dangerous to have too low a percentage of body fat. Just be careful. Ask your doctor.

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