The next person who says that muscle weighs more than fat

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    When comparing the weights of two substances, you usually weigh equal volumes of each substance, and since muscle is more dense than fat, when comparing equal volumes, muscle weighs more than fat...
    Booyah!

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    A pound is a pound unless you're defying the laws of physics.
    But volume is different. And she spoke of volume.

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  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    everybodys different. in some people, muscle might weiy more than fat and someone else the fat might weiy more
  • Fithealthyforlife
    Fithealthyforlife Posts: 866 Member
    everybodys different. in some people, muscle might weiy more than fat and someone else the fat might weiy more

    We all do have some fat in our muscles...intramyocellular lipid...and also some degree of actual fat marbled into the spaces between the muscle fibers (much, much more in people who are obese). But I don't know if that's really what this thread was about.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    everybodys different. in some people, muscle might weiy more than fat and someone else the fat might weiy more
    And unicorns have chi.

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  • Fithealthyforlife
    Fithealthyforlife Posts: 866 Member
    everybodys different. in some people, muscle might weiy more than fat and someone else the fat might weiy more
    And unicorns have chi.

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    Yeah. Even when you take into account that extra fat that some have in muscles, it still weighs more than an equal volume of fat.

    I'm done here.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    Everything weighs the same. :flowerforyou:
    I do not weigh the same as an elephant! It just looks like I do. :angry:
  • Hexahedra
    Hexahedra Posts: 894 Member
    The unstated assumption is "everything else being equal". People say steel is heavier than wood because they assume equal volumes.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Everything weighs the same. :flowerforyou:
    I do not weigh the same as an elephant! It just looks like I do. :angry:

    But it's okay. You also weigh the same as an ant.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    Well done OP. You've set us all straight...again :yawn:
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  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    Well done OP. You've set us all straight...again :yawn:
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    lol

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  • Dark_Roast
    Dark_Roast Posts: 17,689 Member
    Would this be chocolate pudding? If it's chocolate pudding then I'm in, but I don't really care for tapioca.

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  • potatocar
    potatocar Posts: 250 Member
    I came here for pudding. I'm disappointed.

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  • NotRailMeat
    NotRailMeat Posts: 509 Member
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  • CapnGordo
    CapnGordo Posts: 327
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  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    meh
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Everything weighs the same. :flowerforyou:
    Thanks, Daniel Tiger!

    I guess not adding Rick Astley threw a bunch of people off, but it was fun reading the responses! :bigsmile:
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  • Grissay
    Grissay Posts: 112 Member
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    Bwahhahahahahaha
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    How it feels to walk in on OP trying to troll


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    Col' busted, sir. :laugh:
  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
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  • mariposa224
    mariposa224 Posts: 1,241 Member
    This thread again. Oh yay...
  • Mario_Az
    Mario_Az Posts: 1,331 Member
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  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Only if you promise to never say carrots have less calories than potato chips. You must only say "given equal volume carrots have less calories than potato chips".

    If you are referring more towards the everytime someone is losing weight somebody jumps in and says "you're probably just gaining muscle and muscle weighs more than fat". Then I agree.
    Promise! I will see your "carrots have *fewer* calories" and raise you "per unit *volume*", or "per unit *weight*"!:glasses:
  • hzliiz
    hzliiz Posts: 166 Member
    Kinda like how a fun day goes by faster than a boring day. That's right, the time-space continuum shifts depending on my level of amusement. Cause that's how science works right?
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    We have to use this picture for comparison...I think it's in the by-laws somewhere.

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  • mommy3457
    mommy3457 Posts: 361 Member
    Muscle weighs more than fat....DuHhhhhh :wink: :laugh:
  • TriShamelessly
    TriShamelessly Posts: 905 Member
    Where the hell is my pudding?!?!?!
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    Kinda like how a fun day goes by faster than a boring day. That's right, the time-space continuum shifts depending on my level of amusement. Cause that's how science works right?
    Only as you accelerate until the magnitude of your velocity approaches that of light. Also, now I would like a cup of chocolate pudding and a cup of whipped cream, please. :drinker:
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    We have to use this picture for comparison...I think it's in the by-laws somewhere.

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    This thread was useless without pics. :bigsmile:
  • What316
    What316 Posts: 563
    You'll what!

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