I think I broke physics
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Estimating and TEF?0
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The answer is Orange because my cat likes to dance.0
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lol to everyone asking what i was calculating; its a conversion of the 9 calories contained in a gram of fat to the 3500 calories contained in a pound. basically if you go full circle you get 1 gram of fat eaten yeilding a fat gain of 1.166 g's
im going to assume its some sort of rounding error, but most numbers i got for calories in a gram of fat had a few zeros after the decimal place inferring a higher accuracy than just to one integer0 -
The answer is Orange because my cat likes to dance.
No, the answer is blankets because pigeons don't like spaghetti.0 -
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i totally showed my math!Um...
You need to show your work. What in the hell are you talking about?
though i dont even know what the hell im talking about anymore0 -
...3500 cals/lbs ....
That number is an approximation. Any number ending in double zeros is likely to be.9 calories...
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The answer is Orange because my cat likes to dance.
No, the answer is blankets because pigeons don't like spaghetti.
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this makes sense. so its more of a wording issue that fails to mention the oils and whatnot in a pound of fatSo bear with me here, I was just doing some brain thinking and realized something
if you eat 1 gram of pure fat, thats 9 calories. And to lose 1 lb you need to burn 3500 calories, or conversely to gain a lb you need to eat 3500 calories (above/below TDEE).
so 1 g of fat= 9 cals
9 cals divided by 3500 cals/lbs = 0.0025714285714286 lbs
0.0025714285714286 lbs times 453.592 g's per pound = 1.16637942857 g's
so 1 g of fat eaten = 1.166 g's gained? what happened to conservation of mass and energy?
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1376778-recomp-math
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ETA: OPs Quote from link above.
So one lb of fat is as much as one lb of muscle its all mass right but that is where the mistake comes in. So let me go over the numbers
1 lb = 453.6g
1g of fat=9 cal
1g of protein= 4 cal
1g of water = 0 cal
This is stuff we all know, we also know that one lb of fat =3500 cal but 453.6g x 9cal= 4082cal. So how can this be right the numbers just don't add up right. The problem is fat is not all "fat", fat is made up of cells, that are mostly made up of water, but they hold a large amount of oil in them. So a lb of fat is made up of about 86% oil so that would about 390g of fat and 63g of water. Ok so more math now.
1lb=453g
390g oil x 9= 3510
63g water x0=0
390g+63g= 453g=1 lb0 -
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453.592 is the conversion from pounds to grams. what you calculated is the inverse of what i calculated in my first equation;3500cal / 9 = 388.88 grams of fat / lb
where's the 453.592 g's / lb coming from?
3500cals/ lb divided by 9 cals = 388.88 lbs^-1. gotta watch those units
These are still estimations which lead to truncation errors. Calories and Kilocalories are units of heat. Lbs and grams are units of mass. Apples and oranges until we take into consideration density and energy expended, etc. The energy/heat expended to change food into fat and get it back again, will affect the overall outcomes and estimations.
Did I throw a monkey wrench into your theory yet? When all else fails turn to the Law of Entropy. :bigsmile:0 -
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lol to everyone asking what i was calculating; its a conversion of the 9 calories contained in a gram of fat to the 3500 calories contained in a pound. basically if you go full circle you get 1 gram of fat eaten yeilding a fat gain of 1.166 g's
im going to assume its some sort of rounding error, but most numbers i got for calories in a gram of fat had a few zeros after the decimal place inferring a higher accuracy than just to one integer
Yeah... you're forgetting the part where your body actually uses the dietary fat.
Are you really a woman catfishing us? Are the doughnuts going straight to your thighs?
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So bear with me here, I was just doing some brain thinking and realized something
if you eat 1 gram of pure fat, thats 9 calories. And to lose 1 lb you need to burn 3500 calories, or conversely to gain a lb you need to eat 3500 calories (above/below TDEE).
so 1 g of fat= 9 cals
9 cals divided by 3500 cals/lbs = 0.0025714285714286 lbs
0.0025714285714286 lbs times 453.592 g's per pound = 1.16637942857 g's
so 1 g of fat eaten = 1.166 g's gained? what happened to conservation of mass and energy?
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1376778-recomp-math
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ETA: OPs Quote from link above.
So one lb of fat is as much as one lb of muscle its all mass right but that is where the mistake comes in. So let me go over the numbers
1 lb = 453.6g
1g of fat=9 cal
1g of protein= 4 cal
1g of water = 0 cal
This is stuff we all know, we also know that one lb of fat =3500 cal but 453.6g x 9cal= 4082cal. So how can this be right the numbers just don't add up right. The problem is fat is not all "fat", fat is made up of cells, that are mostly made up of water, but they hold a large amount of oil in them. So a lb of fat is made up of about 86% oil so that would about 390g of fat and 63g of water. Ok so more math now.
1lb=453g
390g oil x 9= 3510
63g water x0=0
390g+63g= 453g=1 lb
Quoting because people's brains are still exploding.
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453.592 is the conversion from pounds to grams. what you calculated is the inverse of what i calculated in my first equation;3500cal / 9 = 388.88 grams of fat / lb
where's the 453.592 g's / lb coming from?
3500cals/ lb divided by 9 cals = 388.88 lbs^-1. gotta watch those units
These are still estimations which lead to truncation errors. Calories and Kilocalories are units of heat. Lbs and grams are units of mass. Apples and oranges until we take into consideration density and energy expended, etc. The energy/heat expended to change food into fat and get it back again, will affect the overall outcomes and estimations.
Did I throw a monkey wrench into your theory yet? When all else fails turn to the Law of Entropy. :bigsmile:
Not to mention that the chemical structure of dietary fat is completely different than the chemical structure of body fat. There is a lot more going on than physics.0 -
i would expect bolded to result in less than a gram of fat gained then though, since energy is used in the conversion process rather than gained.
453.592 is the conversion from pounds to grams. what you calculated is the inverse of what i calculated in my first equation;3500cal / 9 = 388.88 grams of fat / lb
where's the 453.592 g's / lb coming from?
3500cals/ lb divided by 9 cals = 388.88 lbs^-1. gotta watch those units
These are still estimations which lead to truncation errors. Calories and Kilocalories are units of heat. Lbs and grams are units of mass. Apples and oranges until we take into consideration density and energy expended, etc. The energy/heat expended to change food into fat and get it back again, will affect the overall outcomes and estimations.
Did I throw a monkey wrench into your theory yet? When all else fails turn to the Law of Entropy. :bigsmile:
questions been answered though, oils n stuff are the *kitten* of this equation0
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