muscle DOES NOT weigh more than fat!!!!

I've posted this before and anytime I read it in a forum repsonse, I lose it on that person!!!!!!!!!!!! It drives me BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Muscle is more DENSE than fat, therefore it takes up less space. I think the people who actually beleive this need to go back to 2nd grade math and remember that a pound is a pound no matter what it is.

Therefore, theoretically, a person who is 6'0" tall and weighs 185 pounds of solid muscle would be "more compact / take up less space" than a person who is 6'0" tall and weighs 185 pounds of solid fat.

1 cubic inch of fat weighs less than 1 cubic inch of muscle.

So, if people want to express that they are "heavier" because they are more muscled, what's the big deal?

It's semantics really.

What is "muscle"?

Perhaps your wife has a small palate deformity that makes it difficult for her to form the "s" sound in conjunction with a "p" sound and you are nagging at her for something she has little control over. Maybe she should go under the knife to have this small deformity corrected for your comfort. And while she's there the doctors can remove one square inch of fat and one square inch of muscle, put it on a scale and figure out if they weigh the same.

Well I never thought of that, what a heartless fool I must be? Wait, or maybe,,,,,,, I'm just throwing this out there,,,,,,,,,,,,, maybe when I do remind her, she does say, opps you're right and then pronounces it correctly,,,,,,,,, so maybe she can say it right but just doesn't, maybe you are a person, that jumps on any man that happens to say the slightest thing bad about a woman? This is my wife not your girl friend, we have been married for 28 years I think I would know if she had a deformity.

But thanks for your concern over my manners.

The same QUANTITY (mass-wise) of muscle absolutely weighs more than fat. Just about any gym you go to will have the nasty looking fake 7 pounds of fat next to the nice lean 7 pounds of muscle.

So... although a pound is a pound, which is true... if you look at the density... that's where the difference lies.

What is "muscle"?

it's a sea creature... in the mollusk family

What is "muscle"?

it's a sea creature... in the mollusk family

Awesome!

i don't rant often, but this is just IRKING MY NERVES!!! UGH!!!

if i read the statement "muscle weighs more than fat" ONE.MORE.TIME i will probably scream!!! is anyone else miffed about this widespread misrepresentation for weightloss? i mean WTH?!? A POUND IS A FREAKING POUND. the actual difference is in the volume, or space, muscle and fat occupy. fat takes up more space than muscle. so you could have two ppl with the EXACT SAME weight, but one look much trimmer simply because they have LESS fat.

please baby, please baby, baby, baby PLEASE spread the word! correct your friends and help end the spread of this myth.

only YOU can help prevent the spread of fitness myths!

Muscle does weight more than fat! Obviously if you are overweight is because you are storing more fat. Someone that is lifting weights, their body start to get trimmer and more defined and might keep the same weight; but you're loosing inches and fat at the same time.

Says Portia...
Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more
But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more
Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
Or the division of the twentieth part
Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
But in the estimation of a hair,
Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOVE THIS!

breathe people, breathe.

Honestly, I've never heard the saying "a pound of muscle weighs more than fat." If it was said that way, of course it wouldn't make any sense. I understand that when it's used in context it means volume because muscle tissue is denser . . . I just assume that it is generally understood that a pound of anything weighs the same as a pound of something else.

Exactly...so maybe those of us that understand that when you compare the weight of any two given substances, you must use volume as the control...are seriously peeved at those of you who say 'muscle weighs the same as fat'...without stating that you mean 1lb vs 1lb. But then again, stating 1lb weighs 1lb...of anything...is sort of redundant...wheras explaing that fat weighs less than muscle...is not.

Hmm...

I think for the most part we all understand that a pound is a pound, but muscle weighs more as in it takes less space but is more dense than fat.

Thank you!!!!

: I'm not so sure.


Maybe someone should just explain it one more time..... :drinker:

I agree about the starvation mode, get over it, its one of those buzz words people use. Im sure that there are many of us who could afford to skip a meal or two every week and we wont freaking pass out because of it ! The reason many of us are is becasue we want to become healthier by losing weight. The drama is all about the why and the how.

I believe, have a sensable diet of 2000 calories, drink water, cut down on sweets, junk food and soda and move your body by walking, cycling, jump roping whatever for at least 30- 60 minutes a day and I guarentee you will lose weight.

Maybe it wont come off as fast as you want, but it will come off, and stop will all this BS about starvation mode !

If you want to see starvation look on line at pictures of starving children in Africa or some other 3rd world countries, I doubt many of you are in danger of looking like that because you skipped breakfast or lunch on Tuesday!

So, we all agree that muscle weighs more than fat, right?

yup i think thats what we're getting from this

Oh good. I'm glad we can all finally agree on something.

Now, what does everyone think of diet soda?

Honestly? Do you need a whole thread to tell people that pound is a pound? When people say that muscle weighs more than fat they mean by volume. Anyone who is able to use this website will know that a pound is a pound. So are you saying that steel weighs the same as fethers? and water same as air? and everything in the world weighs the same, just have a different size? And you weigh the same as me, as pound of you = a pound of me? MUSCLE WEIGHS MORE THAN FAT BY VOLUME. thats what people mean. Dont insult anyones intelligence.

^this x 10000!