Visualising weight loss, 1 pound of fat in volume

animatorswearbras
animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
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Basically it's all very well knowing you've lost 8 and a half pounds of (hopefully) fat, but I wanted to know what that looked like in volume (procrastinating master class), so in doing a half arsed bit of internet research found a lipo clinic website that was explaining that the most they usually extract in a session is about 4 litres of fat which equates to just a little over 8 pounds.

So basically my 8 and a half pounds of fat loss means that I've done the equivilent of opening a tap on my body and filling 2, 2 litre bottles of coke with my fat or a US Gallon or 7 British pints. Woot!

:D

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  • chaosofthegalaxy
    chaosofthegalaxy Posts: 1 Member
    Great representation!!!! 8 pounds sounds like A LOT when you put it like that :)
  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    I have now lost 10 and a half pint glasses or 6 litres of fat, woot! :P (assuming I've lost pure fat)

    I also have also found a more accurate formula for body fat volume/weight although my fudged one was pretty close

    fat = 0.9g/1ml

    Ps sorry to bump this unpopular thread but this is more for my benefit and bumping it up my topics :P
  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    Wow! brushes 16 month layer of dust off archeological thread find

    Since my restart I've lost just shy of 3 litres or 5 and a quarter pints of fat, Woot!

    *does little dance*

    Bye self serving time capsule thread! Will resurrect you in June with my pintage - to future June self *waves* you look THE f*cking *kitten*! How many pints? Wow you're (and by extension I'm) awesome, go you/me! *self five*
  • Edensienna
    Edensienna Posts: 180 Member
    I think that's awesome to visualise a litre of fat leaving the body, puts those weightloss numbers into perspective!

    Thanks for sharing :)
  • Rainboots80
    Rainboots80 Posts: 218 Member
    I always visualize it by pounds of butter which is 4 stick per pound.
  • brandi_kae
    brandi_kae Posts: 22 Member
    Great visual. Still have a few more stick of butter to shed ;)
  • debrakgoogins
    debrakgoogins Posts: 2,033 Member
    I saw a picture that gave me a great visual. Three pounds of fat is about equal to the volume of three grapefruits. Three pounds of muscle is about equal to the volume of three tangerines. Waiter, can I exchange these twelve grapefruits for twelve tangerines please?
  • lecounth
    lecounth Posts: 42 Member
    My favorite visual is that a cinder block weighs 25 pounds. After having lost a total of more than 150 pounds (from my highest) I can't imagine that I was carrying 6 cider blocks worth of weight!
  • jessspurr
    jessspurr Posts: 258 Member
    My dogs' food bag weighs 40 pounds. Every time I have to carry it down my stairs to my house I think about how heavy 40 pounds is. No wonder I was so tired all the time!
  • krennie8
    krennie8 Posts: 301 Member
    This definitely helps visualize what I've lost b/c I swear my measurements haven't changed! (well not entirely true, but I didn't take any measurements around my middle of "sucked in" before; I can def suck in much, much more than before; also my underbust is 1.5" smaller). Scary though to think I was carrying probably an extra 2 2-liter bottles worth of fat in my midsection. Still have a ways to go but that's progress for sure!

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