muscle DOES NOT weigh more than fat!!!!

modernmom70

Best analogy ever. Wow just brilliant.

Five dollars worth of manure costs the same as five dollars worth of gold, but not many will argue with me if I say gold is more expensive than cow poop.

The "by volume" is implied.

Yes agree best analogy ever!

JNick77

i don't rant often, but this is just IRKING MY NERVES!!! UGH!!!

if i read the statement "muscle weighs more than fat" ONE.MORE.TIME i will probably scream!!! is anyone else miffed about this widespread misrepresentation for weightloss? i mean WTH?!? A POUND IS A FREAKING POUND. the actual difference is in the volume, or space, muscle and fat occupy. fat takes up more space than muscle. so you could have two ppl with the EXACT SAME weight, but one look much trimmer simply because they have LESS fat.

please baby, please baby, baby, baby PLEASE spread the word! correct your friends and help end the spread of this myth.

only YOU can help prevent the spread of fitness myths!

One of these threads again??? It's been a couple weeks I guess. Like it's a revelation that one pound of something equals one pound of something else. NO WAYZ!!! :noway:

2Phat1

Having read the 7 pages of this thread in it's entirety it appears that it is not just muscle that is more dense than fat Tongue in cheek only. Aimed at humour, not offense.:flowerforyou:

Quel1970

Best way I have heard it explained is that a lb of fat is about the size of a grapefruit while a lb of muscle is about the size of a tangerine.

No different than say, gold. A 'brick' of gold weighs much more than a brick. Gold is more dense: muscle is more dense.

Personally, I want GOLD in my body

PJilly

i don't rant often, but this is just IRKING MY NERVES!!! UGH!!!

I didn't know nerves could be irked. Hmm. I guess I learn something new every day. :laugh:

Jill. I love you.

Thank you. Thank you very much. :bigsmile:

LuLuSUPER

I'm not a violent man but this topic makes me all:

I love this. I forgot about it until just now. Thanks!

thanks i needed that this morning!! tee hee:laugh:

Huffdogg

This is idiotic. By this logic, nothing weighs more than anything else. Apparently steel and cotton weigh the same. A pound of each is the same...

o_O

When an equal volume of one thing weighs more than the same volume of another thing, the first thing WEIGHS MORE.

You got it wrong. Volume and weight are different. There will of course be more cotton to accumulate a pound that it takes for steel, BUT A POUND IS STILL A POUND NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT TAKES TO CREATE THE POUND (or how little as it pertains to muscle and fat)

I most certainly do NOT have it wrong. I realize that volume and weight are different. That is WHY this argument is fallacious. If volume and weight were interchangeable (as the OP and their *camp* seem to believe), then one would never be able to say that anything "weighed more" than anything else. Since is clearly not the case, one must compare the MASS of identical VOLUMES of two substances to determine which one weighs more. Guess what? 500cc's of muscle weighs more than 500cc's of fat.

Muscle weighs more. Anyone who tries to tell you differently hates science. And probably puppies.

kateroot

Granted I haven't read the whole 7 pages of this crazy post, but....

IT'S AN EXPRESSION. An expression that is meant to convey that muscle is more dense than fat, which means that it has greater mass per volume, meaning that if you take the same size piece of muscle and fat, the piece of muscle will weigh more. Given that context, the expression "muscle weighs more than fat" is perfectly valid.

I'm willing to bet that at least 99% of people understand what is meant by the phrase "muscle weighs more than fat."

susannamarie

Having read the 7 pages of this thread in it's entirety it appears that it is not just muscle that is more dense than fat Tongue in cheek only. Aimed at humour, not offense.:flowerforyou:

Haha!

lsapphire

but a pound of fat looks different on the body then a pound of muscle!

Jacwhite22

Which weighs more.....20 lbs of bowling balls or 20 lbs of feathers.........

beckajw

But of course muscle weighs more than fat. Just like bricks weigh more than feathers.


No one ever said a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat. What is said (and is correct) is that a square inch of muscle weighs more than a square inch of fat. Just like a square inch of bricks weighs more than a square inch of feathers.

Alicia_Monique

It's annoying when people complain about this.

Cut a piece of fat out of your body, and then cut the exact same size of muscle out of your body.

Which will weigh more?

The muscle.

lind3400

I'd rather be 150lbs of muscles than a 150lbs of fat
Cuz I'd look way hotter.....

BMBasnett

Funny, we were just having this conversation at work. It cracks me up when people put on weight and blame it on turning fat to muscle. If you believe you're ahead of the game gaining weight while working out I have no comment lol.

KitTheRoadie

:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:

doorki

SirZee

i don't rant often, but this is just IRKING MY NERVES!!! UGH!!!

if i read the statement "muscle weighs more than fat" ONE.MORE.TIME i will probably scream!!! is anyone else miffed about this widespread misrepresentation for weightloss? i mean WTH?!? A POUND IS A FREAKING POUND. the actual difference is in the volume, or space, muscle and fat occupy. fat takes up more space than muscle. so you could have two ppl with the EXACT SAME weight, but one look much trimmer simply because they have LESS fat.

please baby, please baby, baby, baby PLEASE spread the word! correct your friends and help end the spread of this myth.

only YOU can help prevent the spread of fitness myths!

You know stress is not good for weight loss, right?

aj_31

i don't rant often, but this is just IRKING MY NERVES!!! UGH!!!

if i read the statement "muscle weighs more than fat" ONE.MORE.TIME i will probably scream!!! is anyone else miffed about this widespread misrepresentation for weightloss? i mean WTH?!? A POUND IS A FREAKING POUND. the actual difference is in the volume, or space, muscle and fat occupy. fat takes up more space than muscle. so you could have two ppl with the EXACT SAME weight, but one look much trimmer simply because they have LESS fat.

please baby, please baby, baby, baby PLEASE spread the word! correct your friends and help end the spread of this myth.

only YOU can help prevent the spread of fitness myths!

Yeah its annoying but I try not to pay attention to it because its said so often on here.

Izabellesmom

I completely agree that I'd rather weigh 150 and be tone than 150 and be plump. But as for me, I'd rather just really weigh 150 again lol!!!!

lind3400

I completely agree that I'd rather weigh 150 and be tone than 150 and be plump. But as for me, I'd rather just really weigh 150 again lol!!!!

Lol actually yeh I'd like to get there first!

sionnain

saying "muscle weighs more than fat" does not make it so they're using it out of context. if I lose 3 inches from my waist and i don't lose any weight, it's because i've gained muscle. the bit of fat I lost was the same in weight in muscle. the muscle is just smaller. but the loose vs lose thing does drive me crazy.

mandypooh2103

bump

Kirsty_UK

Arrrrghh!!!! extreme necro bumps

thought this thread had died a long time ago

wondered what smelt funny round here, thought it was me, but no, it's the dug up from the grave, smelly maggoty fat/muscle debate again

vim_n_vigor

i don't rant often, but this is just IRKING MY NERVES!!! UGH!!!

if i read the statement "muscle weighs more than fat" ONE.MORE.TIME i will probably scream!!! is anyone else miffed about this widespread misrepresentation for weightloss? i mean WTH?!? A POUND IS A FREAKING POUND. the actual difference is in the volume, or space, muscle and fat occupy. fat takes up more space than muscle. so you could have two ppl with the EXACT SAME weight, but one look much trimmer simply because they have LESS fat.

please baby, please baby, baby, baby PLEASE spread the word! correct your friends and help end the spread of this myth.

only YOU can help prevent the spread of fitness myths!

Yeah, this topic hasn't been posted over and over and over and over and.....

A quick search would have shown you the many times this has been posted and the extremely similar responses you are getting now.

MassiveDelta

it does if there is more of it.

SoDamnHungry

But it does. Say you have a cubic foot of muscle and a cubic foot of fat. The muscle will weigh more.

Thank you.

Awkward30

Amen! And while we're at it QUIT USING THE WORD LOOSE FOR LOSE, and QUIT INSISTING THAT YOUR BODY WILL GO INTO "STARVATION MODE" if you don't eat back your exercise calories! Do what works for you, come here for motivation and support and the tools this site provides, but don't think any one way is THE way! Thanks, rant over.

Agree... I hate how much "starvation mode" keep getting thrown around. It seems people thin they can go into starvation mode after 3 days of not eating their ...lets say "1500cal" I Know what starvation is... Ive been in hospital for it... and still being treated. and it took me longer than 3 days to get there!!

My Rant over too... lol
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While I think this thread is wrong, in that it is correct to say that rocks weigh more than apples because it is making an observation really about density... That if you had a comparably sized rock and apple, the rock would weigh more. Of course if you had a pound of each, they would weigh the same.

Anyways, while I think the thread is wrong, I agree with you. I hate how convinced everyone is that they are in starvation mode. Or my favorite "I'm full, but I need to eat another 100 cals or I'll go into starvation mode!"

delilah47

Edit: Changed my mind... this dead horse is starting to stink.

dlwyatt82

Ah, this again. That poor, poor horse.