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I think I broke physics

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  • jasonmh630
    jasonmh630 Posts: 2,850 Member
    I can count to potato

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  • WandaMM1
    WandaMM1 Posts: 132 Member
    As much as this made my head hurt, this thread is still exponentially better than the "would you {pick a verb} the person above you" threads!!!
  • GothyFaery
    GothyFaery Posts: 762 Member
    So bear with me here, I was just doing some brain thinking and realized something

    if you eat 1 gram of pure fat, thats 9 calories. And to lose 1 lb you need to burn 3500 calories, or conversely to gain a lb you need to eat 3500 calories (above/below TDEE).

    so 1 g of fat= 9 cals

    9 cals divided by 3500 cals/lbs = 0.0025714285714286 lbs

    0.0025714285714286 lbs times 453.592 g's per pound = 1.16637942857 g's

    so 1 g of fat eaten = 1.166 g's gained? what happened to conservation of mass and energy?

    You're assuming that these numbers are exact and they are not. 1LB =\= exactly 3500 calories and 1g of fat =\= exactly 9 calories. It's like saying pi=3.14. Yes it does but you're dropping off a few numbers there. Someone who ran a calculation with pi taking it out to 3.141592 would get a slightly different answer than someone who ran the same calculation only going out to 3.14.
  • JTick
    JTick Posts: 2,131 Member
    I can count to potato

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  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Pffft! He didn't even put two trains in there leaving at the same time. This is SO not a math problem.
  • alice_schmalice
    alice_schmalice Posts: 283 Member
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  • eventerchick80
    eventerchick80 Posts: 98 Member
    This thread makes me so happy.
  • zorbaru
    zorbaru Posts: 1,077 Member
    so if i eat nothing that is more than 10% fat, i cant possibly have a body fat percentage of more than 10% right?
  • leahraskie
    leahraskie Posts: 260 Member
    In food nutrition almost everything is rounded. ._. Same goes for calorie labels, the FDA kinda sucks at requiring completely accurate information.