Pickett gets introduced to performance enhancing drugs!!

[rbaloha1]

I am underly impressed by a guy Pickets size, with all the tools available to him, can ONLY transfer 10 lbs. in the offseason. For a guy that big, this is a minor transformation. It definately doesn NOT require drugs, just tricep muscles....as in push the extra helping of pie away from you.

Keep residing in fantasy land.

[MJZiggy]

You sound like you know more about this than I, but I'm not sure about this comment.

If you start working out, and eating right, your body will burn fat to supply energy. Your body, having the muscles stimulated will do two things in response - create more muscle tissue and shift some of the fat storage directly in the muscle for quicker access. Correct?

This is sort of correct. Yes, stimulating the muscles causes them to create more tissue and working out & eating right will cause the body to burn fat. That said, note that fat cells are fat cells and muscle cells are muscle cells. There is no such thing as changing one type of cell to another. Fat cells serve only to store fuel and look bad...(actually, some are necessary, but still). And props for the tamale comment.

[rbaloha1]

This is sort of correct. Yes, stimulating the muscles causes them to create more tissue and working out & eating right will cause the body to burn fat. That said, note that fat cells are fat cells and muscle cells are muscle cells. There is no such thing as changing one type of cell to another. Fat cells serve only to store fuel and look bad...(actually, some are necessary, but still). And props for the tamale comment.

Yup -- fat cells only shrink in size but the number remains the same which are determined via genetics.

Gastro bypass surgery is the only permanent weight loss solution.

[MJZiggy]

Yup -- fat cells only shrink in size but the number remains the same which are determined via genetics.

Gastro bypass surgery is the only permanent weight loss solution.

Well, there's death, but that's a little extreme...And actually, you can gain weight back after bypass. It takes a long time to do it, but if you don't cure the underlying problem, you'll eat your way back to huge.

[rbaloha1]

This is sort of correct. Yes, stimulating the muscles causes them to create more tissue and working out & eating right will cause the body to burn fat. That said, note that fat cells are fat cells and muscle cells are muscle cells. There is no such thing as changing one type of cell to another. Fat cells serve only to store fuel and look bad...(actually, some are necessary, but still). And props for the tamale comment.

Yup -- fat cells only shrink in size but the number remains the same which are determined via genetics.

Gastro bypass surgery is the only permanent weight loss solution.

[George Cumby]

Well, there's death, but that's a little extreme...And actually, you can gain weight back after bypass. It takes a long time to do it, but if you don't cure the underlying problem, you'll eat your way back to huge.

This.

Know a gal, always had a weight issue. I see her after a while and she's shrunk. Turns out, she had GBP. Fast forward a few years, poor thing is big again. Zig is correct, GBP is a bandaid.

Decreased caloric intake, cleaner diet, increase in training volume works. I am not so dogmatic or foolish to say it is the only thing to work.

And for a man of Picketts size, 10# is nothing. He drops that every time he goes doody.