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Fat vs Muscle...a visual

deanadimples
deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
edited January 16 in Motivation and Support
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I wonder if the muscle is accurate? Thoughts?

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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    There is no spoon, Neo.
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    Sorry. I'm posting via mobile and missed a character. Dang small screens.

    All better.
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    Wouldn't let me edit it...but it's supposed to show 5 lb of fat vs 5 lb of muscle. But I think it's looks like 1 lb of muscle.
  • Janie_May
    Janie_May Posts: 51 Member
    That looks like a 3 or 5-pound fat replica. I have a 1-pound fat replica that is much smaller (about as long as a pen at its longest point).
    A pound of fat definitely takes up more space/volume than a pound of muscle, but the difference it not as dramatic as your photo.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    why do you have a fat replica?? LOL
  • Janie_May
    Janie_May Posts: 51 Member
    It sits on my kitchen counter as a little reminder...:wink:
    Popeye73 posted this pic of 1 pound of fat on another thread:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a4/Benji_mon/1lbfat_zps6d505c78.jpg
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    why do you have a fat replica?? LOL

    Ha! I don't :)

    I saw it posted somehwere else...but the information that went with it said they were both 5 lbs. I thought I'd see if anyone here could say. The fat would seem to be right for 5 lbs but the muscle didn't seem equal.

    I found this one...seems more right to me.

    5lb-of-fat-and-5lb-of-muscle.jpg
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