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3500 cals IS NOT 1 pound!

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  • lachesissss
    lachesissss Posts: 1,298 Member
    Well damn... looks like science is wrong.... again. Logic is defied! My worldview... shifted.
  • FitandFab33
    FitandFab33 Posts: 718 Member
    This post makes me want to bang my head against a brick wall. Repeatedly.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
    1 pound of food outside of your body = 1lbs of food inside. It doesnt dissapear.
  • zachatta
    zachatta Posts: 1,340 Member
    Did you perchance have carbs after 6 last night? Generally screws up your metabolism for a good week.
  • azzkikin
    azzkikin Posts: 458 Member
    Go take a dump and see if you lost said 2.5lbs. Pics Not Needed!

    Probably should remind you to weight yourself after and not the floaters. Buy nah, have fun with it.:laugh:
  • downsizinghoss
    downsizinghoss Posts: 1,035 Member
    What did you eat? A pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat.

    A pound is a pound is a pound and it doesn't matter of it's feathers, fat, muscle, bricks or iron. What does matter is density. Muscle is more dense than fat therefore a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat. A pound of fat takes up about the same space as 3 grapefruit. A pound of muscle takes up the space of about 3 tangerines.

    This is exactly why I don't like grapefruit.
  • Angie__1MR
    Angie__1MR Posts: 388 Member
    :sad: that is all.
  • TinaBean007
    TinaBean007 Posts: 273 Member
    That's what you get for eating your exercise calories...bahahaha
  • collingmommy
    collingmommy Posts: 456 Member
    I used to wonder the same thing. I ate a heavy salad one day and the scale said i jumped over 2 lbs lol.. Its not that it really does. U have to wait for the food to metabolize before you weigh out. My food takes 5 hours to digest, so after i eat my last meal at night, i go weigh in 5 hours later. I know its 5 hours for me cause i tested myself. I took a dulcalax tablet and it took 5 hours to work.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    What did you eat? A pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat.

    A pound is a pound is a pound and it doesn't matter of it's feathers, fat, muscle, bricks or iron. What does matter is density. Muscle is more dense than fat therefore a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat. A pound of fat takes up about the same space as 3 grapefruit. A pound of muscle takes up the space of about 3 tangerines.

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  • AngryDiet
    AngryDiet Posts: 1,349 Member
    What did you eat? A pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat.

    Why would anyone eat a pound of muscle?
  • crazyellybean
    crazyellybean Posts: 999 Member
    Just curious why you didn't weigh halfway through your lunch... I mean if you really want to be obsessed with the scale, you need to go all the way or go home!!
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
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  • lachesissss
    lachesissss Posts: 1,298 Member
    1 pound of food outside of your body = 1lbs of food inside. It doesnt dissapear.

    The first rule of thermodynamics is you don't talk about thermodynamics. :/
  • Chellellelle
    Chellellelle Posts: 595 Member
    2 cups of water will make you appear to gain 1 pound. See the video below:

    http://youtu.be/AAeHadJ5xaQ
  • Abeer8
    Abeer8 Posts: 12
    Weight yourself. Drink 2 glasses of water, and immediately after weight yourself again. Voila, 0 calories = 1 pound. It's not your weight, its the weight of the food and water inside your belly. Processed or not.
  • Enkibean
    Enkibean Posts: 56
    I weighed myself before and after lunch, I gained 2.5lbs
    My lunch was only 1000 calories, I also had several glasses of ice cold water (0 cals)

    I guess the rule does not work with me, in my case 1000 calories is actually 2.5lbs

    I salute the awesome magnitude of your troll
  • Palledrengen
    Palledrengen Posts: 10 Member
    What did you eat? A pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat.


    Hmmmmm a pound is a pound....so one pound of muscle weighs excatly the same as one pound of fat.....the voulme will for sure be diffrent....buuuuut a pound is a pound !!!
  • KatKisses
    KatKisses Posts: 296 Member
    If you eat standing up the calories don't count.................no seriously
  • Jay_Jay_
    Jay_Jay_ Posts: 194 Member
    Would you download a pound?
  • TheGeordie
    TheGeordie Posts: 24
    I weighed myself before and after lunch, I gained 2.5lbs
    My lunch was only 1000 calories, I also had several glasses of ice cold water (0 cals)

    I guess the rule does not work with me, in my case 1000 calories is actually 2.5lbs

    Really? :noway:
  • foodfathought
    foodfathought Posts: 21 Member
    Not sure if trolling or serious :/
  • Amberonamission
    Amberonamission Posts: 836 Member
    A green coffee extract enema will fix you right up.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Your scale must be broken!
  • MeMyCatsandI
    MeMyCatsandI Posts: 704 Member
    drmerc, did you change your photo just to pul this off? Well done!
  • TanyshaBzs
    TanyshaBzs Posts: 23 Member
    Do you not realize that the 3500 calories that are being talked about are ENERGY!!!
    It's totally different.
  • rmhand
    rmhand Posts: 1,067 Member
    Just break up.
  • cdpark617
    cdpark617 Posts: 316 Member
    But celery is negative calories (-3500 per pound) and has positive weight

    1 pound = -3500 calories
    -1 pound = 3500 calories

    So if we all eat 35,000 calories we should lose (uhh I mean loose) 10 pounds!
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    Do you not realize that the 3500 calories that are being talked about are ENERGY!!!
    It's totally different.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass–energy_equivalence
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    :flowerforyou:
    Well played, good sir.
    I came in here all like "WHAT?"
    Then I was like...:laugh:
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