argh! muscle does not weigh more than fat! sorry, but every time i read that on the weight watchers boards i want to scream. i know what people mean when they say that, but it’s inaccurate and potentially misleading. one pound of muscle weighs exactly the same as one pound of fat. the difference is that the muscle is denser and is therefore one-fifth the volume of fat. stated sligthly differently: fat takes up more room on your body, that’s why two people who weigh exactly the same can look so different depending on the amount of lean muscle mass they each have. are we clear now? good.
last night i ramped it up and unwrapped the second tape in my slim in 6 journey. this tape is twenty minutes longer and includes some crazy lower body and resistance training exercises. i was completely drenched with sweat by the time i finished. the important part is that i finished it, though. i’m still feeling pretty good right now, but don’t be surprised if i’m hobbling around like a senior citizen later.
i treated myself for my good work last night by getting all snazzy in my new outfit today. new über-soft black slacks with my short-sleeve black & white gingham shirt with the white cuffs and collar. i even broke out the heels. yes, sir. i’m right dolled up. i feel very pretty and, not surprisingly, my mood matches.
Well, wait a second (is that weight a second?), by the logic that a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat, you could say a balloon and a tennis ball weigh the same – since a pound of either is a pound. But a tennis ball does weigh more than a balloon, even if it’s smaller.
I mean, hell, I like your reasoning, though… I weigh the same as Kate Moss in that analogy… hey, my pounds weigh just as much as hers do! ;)
um.
ditto
Translated, if you take a cubic foot of fat and a cubic foot of muscle (ick), which would weigh more? (This reminds me of Oprah pulling out that wagon load of fat…)
the cubic foot of muscle would, but that does not mean a pound of muscle is heavier than a pound of fat. it means that that you can put more muscle than fat in a cubic foot.
and, sorry, that doesn’t mean you weigh the same as kate whatshername. =p
and stop using fake email addresses, dammit.
hey, so you do aerobics-type movements in your apartment? how do you do that without pissing off the people below you? maybe i’m just clumsy, but i’m wondering, because soon we are going to have people living below us… and i’d rather not piss them off with my aerobic flailing :)
it’s just really non-bouncy movements (step-touch, knee-up, that kind of thing) and i’m REALLY conscientious about not thudding about. i can’t do anything about the squeaky floor, though, so i’ve found the one area that doesn’t and confine my movement to that spot.
But people aren’t saying “a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat” (or, if they are, they’re just stupid). They’re saying that muscle weighs more. Which is true.
And, hey, each of my pounds DOES weigh as much as Kate Moss. Alas, hers run out around my thigh.
And, no, I get enough spam, thanks. It’s not as if you don’t have my email address. :p
yes, i know that, but your fake address gets gobbled by spam assassin and i don’t get your comments emailed to me. so stop it! =)
ooh— I’ve been seeing those Slim in 6 infomercials and have been so tempted.
I never thought about the lb of fat vs muscle so literally before. LOL
WTF, like you don’t check here every half hour anyhow without the email? :p
=p
I guess this is way too late, but… muscle does weigh more than fat BY VOLUME. Ie., 1 cubic foot of solid muscle weighs more than 1 cubic foot of solid fat.
So.. if you lose 1 cubic inch of fat but create 1 cubic inch of muscle, you will in fact gain weight, but be smaller in volume. (And look that much better too.)
And that’s what they mean by muscle weighs more than fat. The “by volume” part is implied. (I donno who the idiot is who started saying “a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat”.. that’s just dumb.)