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    Banging my head on the desk

    Posts: 40 Member
    edited March 1 in Health and Weight Loss
    Ok, seriously, just saw it again in several posts.

    Please, people, muscle does not weigh more than fat. A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat.

    I'm sure that what you're trying to say is that muscle masses more than fat, in that a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat, but please repeat after me:

    a pound is a pound is a pound is a pound is a pound.

    a kilo is a kilo is a kilo is a kilo is a kilo.

    Thank you - let the snarks begin!

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    • Posts: 6,652 Member
      Lead doesn't weigh more than hydrogen.
    • Posts: 454 Member
      :yawn:
    • Posts: 14,776 Member
      Ok, seriously, just saw it again in several posts.

      Please, people, muscle does not take up less space than fat. A cubic inch of muscle takes up as much space as a cubic inch of fat.

      I'm sure that what you're trying to say is that muscle is denser than fat, in that a cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat, but please repeat after me:

      an inch is an inch is an inch.

      a cm is a cm is a cm.

      Thank you - let the snarks begin!
    • Posts: 441
      THANK YOU!!!!!!!! FINALLY SOMEONE THAT GET'S IT.
    • Posts: 1,456 Member
      IN for banging on the desk.
    • Posts: 10,740 Member
      I am banging my head on the desk because it seems like everyone is killing themselves with workouts and doesn't track their food. I thought this was kind of the POINT of My Fitness Pal...logging your calories.

      smh
    • Posts: 1,618 Member
      Oh, this again. Okay then.

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    • Posts: 1,326 Member
      Ok, seriously, just saw it again in several posts.

      Please, people, muscle does not weigh more than fat. A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat.

      I'm sure that what you're trying to say is that muscle masses more than fat, in that a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat, but please repeat after me:

      a pound is a pound is a pound is a pound is a pound.

      a kilo is a kilo is a kilo is a kilo is a kilo.

      Thank you - let the snarks begin!
      True. A pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle.

      But if you look at what a pound of fat looks like compared to a pound of muscle...that lb of fat is much bigger and I am pretty sure that is the context I see it used most.
      Or they say that muscle weighs more than fat to explain how a body is transforming and even though the scale may not look it you could be getting more healthy and in shape because you are building muscle and losing fat
    • Posts: 900 Member
      What if the volumes were equal?

      Does a cubic inch of fat weight less than a cubic inch of ice cream?

      What's the difference between weight and mass?

      Does Barbarella's band need a new guitarist? :blushing:

      So many questions that may never get answered.
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      And to think, you killed many pixels just to bring us this post.

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    • Posts: 3,128 Member
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    • Posts: 49 Member
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      True. A pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle.

      But if you look at what a pound of fat looks like compared to a pound of muscle...that lb of fat is much bigger and I am pretty sure that is the context I see it used most.
      Or they say that muscle weighs more than fat to explain how a body is transforming and even though the scale may not look it you could be getting more healthy and in shape because you are building muscle and losing fat

      The word you are looking for is volume. Muscle is dense and takes up less volume; while fat takes up a lot of volume for the same comparative weight.

      Another way to put this is that muscle has more mass than fat. mass/=weight Mass is a measurement of volume+weight simplistically speaking.
    • Posts: 9,377 Member
      This is new to me.
    • Posts: 3,987 Member

      I'm sure that what you're trying to say is that muscle masses more than fat, in that a pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat,
      If you new that was what people were trying to say why do you have an issue then?. Seems to be a problem of semantic not a real world problem.If that's your biggest worry in life .....
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      I am banging my head on the desk because it seems like everyone is killing themselves with workouts and doesn't track their food. I thought this was kind of the POINT of My Fitness Pal...logging your calories.

      smh

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    • Posts: 49 Member
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      If you new that was what people were trying to say why do you have an issue then?. Seems to be a problem of semantic not a real world problem.If that's your biggest worry in life .....

      Because communicating correct information matters.
    • Posts: 262 Member
      Let's talk about loose vs. lose next ... because I never know what people mean when they say "I'm trying to loose weight."

      /sarcasm

      pedantic much?
    • Posts: 146 Member
      I think what you meant to say is muscle is more dense than fat.

      probably also means that because of its density that 1 pound of fat takes up more space than 1 pound of muscle.
    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      Let's talk about loose vs. lose next ... because I never know what people mean when they say "I'm trying to loose weight."

      /sarcasm

      pedantic much?

      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1378548-arg-people-it-s-lose-not-loose
    • Posts: 6,349 Member
      When I say X weighs more than Y what do you think I mean?

      Of course a pound if X weighs the same as a pound of Y, it would be trivial for me to state that. One pound of anything weighs the same as one pound of anything else - right?

      So what do people mean when they say X weighs more than Y? And what are people trying to prove when they start ranty threads about the matter?
    • Posts: 63 Member
      I read the title of this thread as "Banging on the desk" ... *backs away slowly*


      Carry on.
    • Posts: 535 Member
      in for banging
    • Posts: 206 Member
      Because that's worse than the hundreds of dozens of posts about 'Rate the person above you'.
      Luring the insecure into a tear trap.
      Arnie is disappoint.
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    • Posts: 6,652 Member
      show previous quotes

      Because communicating correct information matters.
      What do you think of the phrase "lighter than air," then. Doesn't that communicate incorrect information in that it should be "less dense than air"?
    • Posts: 711 Member
      Great thread! Let the kitteh GIFs begin!
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    • Posts: 868 Member
      Great thread! Let the kitteh GIFs begin!
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      Love it!

      Is anyone going to buy OP a new desk?
    • Posts: 627 Member
      SCIENCE!!

      wheeeeee!

      (ps. anyone with a brain that works with logic knows that when people say that they dont mean a pound weighs more than a pound. why would anyone ever say or imply that? personally i think the logic that sees people saying a pound is more than a pound when people say it is more flawed than the one that says muscle weighs more than fat... in my opinion)

      LOGIC!!! it goes well with science.
    • Posts: 4,323 Member
      IN for banging OPs head on the desk.

      FIFY
    • Posts: 7,010 Member
      Assuming you are talking about equal volumes then yes......muscle does weigh more than fat. 1 cubic foot of muscle weighs more than one cubic foot of fat.
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