muscle weighs more than fat!!!!!!!

Becca21
Becca21 Posts: 361 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
How can 1 lb of muscle weigh more than a pound of fat...

its a pound no matter what so there for a pound of fat and a pound of muscle weigh the same.

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  • TamaBrett
    TamaBrett Posts: 22 Member
    context? who said so?
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    Nobody said that, apart from one lone tae bo enthusiast.

    What people are saying is, that muscle weighs more than fat, when volume is equal. Something has to be equal in order for a comparison to be made.

    Nobody is dumb enough to think that any fixed weight of one thing weighs more than the same weight of something else.

    /thread.
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    Not this again.

    Stand by for a 30 page thread about semantics.
  • bathsheba_c
    bathsheba_c Posts: 1,873 Member
    A cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat. Overweight people don't want to lose weight because they want to lose mass; they want to lose weight because they want to lose volume.

    I think my favorite iteration of this thread was the one where I was called an idiot because I said muscle weighs more than fat, when really fat takes up more space than muscle.
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    :yawn:
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    OH-BOY-ITS-THIS-THREAD-AGAIN.jpg
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat, if the pound of muscle is on Earth and the pound of fat is on the moon


    I think what people mean is "muscle is denser than fat"
  • Chadomaniac
    Chadomaniac Posts: 1,785 Member
    omg ...
  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat, if the pound of muscle is on Earth and the pound of fat is on the moon


    I think what people mean is "muscle is denser than fat"

    This looks like an early thread winner.
  • AntWrig
    AntWrig Posts: 2,273 Member
    a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat, if the pound of muscle is on Earth and the pound of fat is on the moon


    I think what people mean is "muscle is denser than fat"
    Well said, but no.

    When they say muscle weighs more than fat, they believe it.
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    The unstated implication is that by volume, muscle weighs more than fat. Only the worst kind of idiot would honestly think 1 > 1, followed only by the sort of a person who thinks that other people would think that.
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    A cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat. Overweight people don't want to lose weight because they want to lose mass; they want to lose weight because they want to lose volume.

    I think my favorite iteration of this thread was the one where I was called an idiot because I said muscle weighs more than fat, when really fat takes up more space than muscle.

    An equally pedantic response could have been that an inch of fat takes up the same space as an inch of muscle.

    By volume, muscle weighs more than fat
    by weight, fat takes up more space than muscle.

    I have never seen anyone on here claim that 1lb of muscle weighs more than 1lb of fat, except for the people who start these sort of threads.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Nobody said that, apart from one lone tae bo enthusiast.

    aaaaaah, the legend lives on!!!!!!
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Nobody said that, apart from one lone tae bo enthusiast.

    aaaaaah, the legend lives on!!!!!!

    Whatever happened to AZ
    ?
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    A cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat. Overweight people don't want to lose weight because they want to lose mass; they want to lose weight because they want to lose volume.

    I think my favorite iteration of this thread was the one where I was called an idiot because I said muscle weighs more than fat, when really fat takes up more space than muscle.

    An equally pedantic response could have been that an inch of fat takes up the same space as an inch of muscle.

    By volume, muscle weighs more than fat
    by weight, fat takes up more space than muscle.

    I have never seen anyone on here claim that 1lb of muscle weighs more than 1lb of fat, except for the people who start these sort of threads.
    ^Every word of this.
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    Nobody said that, apart from one lone tae bo enthusiast.

    aaaaaah, the legend lives on!!!!!!

    Whatever happened to AZ
    ?
    Popped up a few weeks ago, I believe, but has probably retreated to a group somewhere.
  • tcatcarson
    tcatcarson Posts: 227 Member
    Let Limmy explain it all...!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwr6_015ROo
  • CoderGal
    CoderGal Posts: 6,800 Member
    typically when someone refers to that sentence they are not comparing weight by weight they are comparing weight by volume.
  • SteveJWatson
    SteveJWatson Posts: 1,225 Member
    Let me put this from another perspective:

    What weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of lead?
  • tpt1950
    tpt1950 Posts: 292 Member
    what - not again....
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Every time one of these threads pop up, I am forced to face the fact that our educational systems have gone to hell.

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