February 29, 2012 | healthcaremagic.com. Within hours of the procedure I had a fever of about 102 and body aches, chills, and bad diarrhea with a lot of mucus accompanied by horrific cramps. ...My fever and chills and aches went away last....
Where the misunderstanding often comes in is that muscle is much more dense than fat, so that, by volume, it seems to weigh more. That is, a pound of muscle occupies less space than a pound of fat.
This would be your lean muscle weight...that is, you have 43lbs of muscle on you. It sounds like a lot, but muscles are dense, which means they don't take up a lot of space for how much they weigh. It's like having a pound of feathers or a pound of gold: they body weigh a pound, but the gold is more compact.