The diets of professional body builders and guys and gals who just want to develop a ripped body so they can look good on the beach are (or should be) very similar. While many think that different size people need completely different diets, even for the same goal, that is simply not true. There's a common myth that these people also tend to believe which says you can "convert fat into muscle," and vice versa. Again, that is just not true. You can't convert fat into muscle any more than you can convert a chunk of limestone into a diamond. The human body simply does not work that way. The chemical make-up of both are just too different.

It is true that muscle is more dense than fat. This makes muscle heavier for the same volume of each. You can pretty easily see why. Fat is "fluffy," while muscle is rigid and firm. For example, a pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of iron, but you will see that there is much less iron on the scale than feathers. As a result, your weight wil