"Muscle Weighs More Than Fat"

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  • AlbertPooHoles
    AlbertPooHoles Posts: 530 Member
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    How much does your purse weight?
  • MrsCon40
    MrsCon40 Posts: 2,351 Member
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    OK, I am sure this has been posted before ....

    Yes, it has.

    Consider this dead horse beat so many times that it has reanimated and then been beat to death again. Please just let the horse be dead. Please.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
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    How much does your purse weight?

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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
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    How much does your purse weight?

    The same as fat and muscle. A pound is a pound.
  • IronmanPanda
    IronmanPanda Posts: 2,083 Member
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    I just know there's a Monty Python line there, somewhere :tongue:

    A duck!

    I got better.
  • _SusieQ_
    _SusieQ_ Posts: 2,964 Member
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    Yay! This thread gave me two on my MFP Bingo card!!

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/475116-mfp-bingo

    Total win!
  • Hungry_Tuna
    Hungry_Tuna Posts: 361 Member
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    .. If you only have a small amount of weight to lose, then you may feel like the weight training is not helping you move down on the scale. In fact, the number may even go up, but you will look thinner. This is due to an increase in lean body mass (muscle, bone, blood volume) and a decrease in body fat. In other words, even if the scale doesn't change much, you will probably see a difference in how your clothes fit.

    ^ My situation exactly!
  • MissFit0101
    MissFit0101 Posts: 2,382
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    im horny......does that weigh anything??:tongue:

    I hope not, or I'd never be able to lose weight, LOL.
  • b0t23
    b0t23 Posts: 260 Member
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    the same volume of muscle will weigh more than the same volume of fat.

    you can have a small muscle and a bunch of fat and they can weight the same.

    i dont think anyone means that the same volume of each will weight the same.
  • committomittxoxo
    committomittxoxo Posts: 339 Member
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    I see these threads all the time.

    Does anyone really think that a pound of fat weighs different than a pound of muscle?

    The expression "muscle weighs more than fat" assumes equal volumes. So if you have the same volume of fat as you do muscle, the muscle is going to weigh more. Similarly, if you have the same weight of each, the volume of muscle will be less.

    Do people not realize that?


    ^^^^^ This
  • BootcampJunkie
    BootcampJunkie Posts: 69 Member
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    This is all that should ever have to be said on this topic.


    I second that!
  • violetness
    violetness Posts: 131 Member
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    fat-v-muscle.jpg?w=300

    This is all that should ever have to be said on this topic.

    RIGHT ON lol - 'nuff said!
  • YukonJoy
    YukonJoy Posts: 1,279 Member
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    I see these threads all the time.

    Does anyone really think that a pound of fat weighs different than a pound of muscle?

    The expression "muscle weighs more than fat" assumes equal volumes. So if you have the same volume of fat as you do muscle, the muscle is going to weigh more. Similarly, if you have the same weight of each, the volume of muscle will be less.

    Do people not realize that?

    No. People are stupid.

    They only understand weight to be measured in lbs.

    Not mass or volume.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
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  • rovernio
    rovernio Posts: 157
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    look at it this way 1cm3 of muscle weighs more then 1cm3 of fat so muscle does weigh more then fat
  • rebecca_florida
    rebecca_florida Posts: 184 Member
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    *places bingo chip*
  • Maggie_Pie1
    Maggie_Pie1 Posts: 322 Member
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    The expression "muscle weighs more than fat" assumes equal volumes. So if you have the same volume of fat as you do muscle, the muscle is going to weigh more. Similarly, if you have the same weight of each, the volume of muscle will be less.

    Do people not realize that?

    My pet peeve is people that DON'T realize that and whose pet peeve is when people say muscle weighs more than fat.
  • FrostyBev
    FrostyBev Posts: 119 Member
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    I hate when people gain a couple of pounds, vent online about it, and people say "you've been working out - its probably muscle." It takes TIME to put on muscle mass. Sorry you didn't gain a pound of muscle in a week. Especially women!

    Either you are retaining water, or you ate more than you thought you did.

    More then likely it is water. A pound of fat = ~3500 calories. I seriously doubt somebody has oven eaten that many calories in a week.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
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    I hate when people gain a couple of pounds, vent online about it, and people say "you've been working out - its probably muscle." It takes TIME to put on muscle mass. Sorry you didn't gain a pound of muscle in a week. Especially women!

    Either you are retaining water, or you ate more than you thought you did.

    More then likely it is water. A pound of fat = ~3500 calories. I seriously doubt somebody has oven eaten that many calories in a week.
    This sounds like a challenge.
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