"Muscle Weighs More Than Fat"

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  • Picola1984
    Picola1984 Posts: 1,133
    My issue of this months Health and Fitness actually says muscle weighs more than fat!

    Doh!
  • katcj
    katcj Posts: 32 Member


    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.

    Oh trust me, I could do that easily! :bigsmile:
  • georgina1970
    georgina1970 Posts: 333 Member
    No, because there are alsways newby's to the site that haven't already learnt this stuff!
  • CountryBoy65
    CountryBoy65 Posts: 908 Member
    Muscle does not weigh more than fat, any more than lead weighs more than feathers. A pound is a pound is a pound.

    Does that mean that muscle might weigh more than fat in Europe because they don't weigh in pounds??

    In outer space, they both weigh the same....
  • paulamarsden
    paulamarsden Posts: 483 Member
    My issue of this months Health and Fitness actually says muscle weighs more than fat!

    Doh!

    i read that today to.... not a great issue i have to say... far too many adverts for magic pills imo.
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    My issue of this months Health and Fitness actually says muscle weighs more than fat!

    Doh!

    i read that today to.... not a great issue i have to say... far too many adverts for magic pills imo.
    Magic? I love magic.

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  • MissesJai
    MissesJai Posts: 48
    this thread is cracking me up :laugh: :laugh:
  • Squiffie
    Squiffie Posts: 2
    This whole thread just made me lol, and I just want to point out that I'm from Europe and I weigh in pounds!! Uk don't want to go metric, just another bit of Europe we refuse to conform with x x
  • FrostyBev
    FrostyBev Posts: 119 Member
    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.

    ROFL! That picture cracked me up. But seriously if somebody says they gained 3 pounds that's 10500 extra calories above their TEE... In a week. Makes me want to puke just thinking about eating that much food.
  • paulamarsden
    paulamarsden Posts: 483 Member
    agreed Squiffie, if only these americans could use stones?! haha
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    This from someone who loves horses. Seriously. Make it stop. No one is confused.
    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.
  • jetscreaminagain
    jetscreaminagain Posts: 1,130 Member
    agreed Squiffie, if only these americans could use stones?! haha

    Stones would sink but small rocks would float, right?

    I'm an American, would you approve me using stones on the next person to start a pound of fat v pound of muscle thread? Id totally use stones then.
  • jmvane15
    jmvane15 Posts: 28
    That is a common misconception. Thank you for clearing that up.
  • IamDianna
    IamDianna Posts: 37
    LMAO The HORSE IS DEAD PEOPLES!
  • yummy♥
    yummy♥ Posts: 612 Member
    Exactly!
    No need to knit pick.

    it's "nitpick"
  • killagb
    killagb Posts: 3,280 Member
    Exactly!
    No need to knit pick.

    it's "nitpick"
    Unless he means something like....
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  • Tiggerrick
    Tiggerrick Posts: 1,078 Member
    Let me hit you on the head with a pound of feathers as hard as I can....

    Now, let me hit you with a pound of lead as hard as I can...

    See the difference??? Each time someone makes the "muscle weighs more than fat" reference without taking into account the "by volume" aspect, I want to do the second one ... on their head!
  • WickedMouse
    WickedMouse Posts: 343 Member
    Exactly!
    No need to knit pick.

    it's "nitpick"
    Unless he means something like....
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    ooooh those are frigging cute!!
  • MaximalLife
    MaximalLife Posts: 2,447 Member
    *places bingo chip*
    the daftness of humanity is always a winning bet....
  • ButtercupSprad
    ButtercupSprad Posts: 117
    WOW!
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    This is all that should ever have to be said on this topic.
  • mynameiscarrie
    mynameiscarrie Posts: 963 Member
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    This is thread number 99,999,999 on this subject. :yawn:


    ^^yes.
    i saw this thread and just had to comments to shake my head and say "no!"
    a pound is a pound blah blah blah blah blah blah muscle is more dense yaddayadda

    I TAKE HCG.

    ready go!

    (i don't really)
  • tataliciousd89
    tataliciousd89 Posts: 465
    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?
    God I hope so... but then again there are people who absolutely blow my mind with their stupidity on a daily basis. Yes, I have understood this concept since I was like 5. No confusion here. Honestly I can't even conceive how that could possibly be misunderstood.
  • manderson27
    manderson27 Posts: 3,510 Member
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    This is thread number 99,999,999 on this subject. :yawn:

    Oooh does that mean the next person who posts on this wins an Ipad?? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Fit_Canuck
    Fit_Canuck Posts: 788 Member
    I want an iPAD!!
  • trijoe
    trijoe Posts: 729 Member
    Muscle/Fat thread! DRINK!!!:drinker:
    Muscle does not weigh more than fat, any more than lead weighs more than feathers. A pound is a pound is a pound.

    Does that mean that muscle might weigh more than fat in Europe because they don't weigh in pounds??

    Yes. Also European people will sink faster if you put them in water.

    So, doesn't that make them witches? Oh no, it's Salem all over again...
  • lawkat
    lawkat Posts: 538 Member
    Oh, this is my #1 pet peeve!

    Better yet was the thread (I can't remember where it was, it was a week or so ago) where the poster had PROOF that muscle weighed more than fat because (wait for it people......).........if you put 1lb of meat in water it will sink but 1lb of fat will float.

    Seriously! I was laughing so hard that I think I got an ab workout in.

    Back in the 1600s they would throw women who were accused of being witches into a lake. If they sank, they were innocent. If they floated, they were a witch. I think they all sank. Fat is all about witchcraft and evil.
  • Bikini27
    Bikini27 Posts: 1,290 Member
    No, because there are alsways newby's to the site that haven't already learnt this stuff!

    THANK YOU.
    I appreciate everyone's input, but this was directed to the newer people that haven't spent a lot of time and energy learning about weightloss and excercising.
  • reaolliemama
    reaolliemama Posts: 483 Member
    :heart: :heart: :heart: :love: :love: :love: :love: I LOVE THIS THREAD!!!!!:love::love: :love: :love: :heart: :heart: :heart:
  • fxst78
    fxst78 Posts: 221 Member
    I love the fact the by the logic, nothing actually weighs more than anything cos a "pound is a pound"

    1000 pounds of elephants weighs the same as 1000 pounds of mice! Yes, but I am pretty sure I can say that elephants weigh more than mice!!!
  • littlemsmuffet
    littlemsmuffet Posts: 84
    It's probably something they just never put a whole lot of thought into, and it is used as an explanation for everything. I'm hoping (crosses fingers and toes) that maybe spreading a little more knowledge will help.

    This and starvation "mode". I love people, bless their hearts, they want to help but sometimes it just comes out wrong!
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