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How big is a pound of fat?

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Kango

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So many fitness threads on here, and so many people trying to lose weight (including me).

I was just wondering...about how big is a pound of fat? When I lose a pound did I presume I lost a volume of fat larger than a golfball but smaller than a baseball. Am I about right? Any better approximation? I wonder just how much my beer gut and my tiny little manbosoms weigh (they're just big enough to piss me off but nobody else notices/cares)

And yes, I know that when you lose weight you don't lose it all from the same area... although wouldn't it be great if spot reduction worked? 😛

I'm at 175, down from 183 three weeks ago. Shooting for about 160. I think I can reach my goal before vacation in August if I keep up this cardio 6x weekly. YEEEEEEEEHAW.
 
think of how big a pound of butter is.... i think its about the same volume maybe

now.. how big is a pound of butter?
 
I think it's hard to say how much volume a certain weight of fat takes up in relation to weight loss. You could say well a pound of human fat tissue is like 1 cup but that doesn't really mean anything for fat loss through exercise, maybe for liposuction but not for normal weight loss.

You should just go with a reasonable scale like "normal" height and weight average charts, ask a doctor to take a average body fat %, but most importantly, just be healthy. If you work out more then 3 hours a week, eat right, take your vitamins, and the doctor sys your healthy, then who cares if you have a littel gut or whatever? Now if that gut bothers you then work it off till it's visible acceptable to you, not how much weight you lossed. Weight is a pretty poor indicator of health or fitness. Most weight lossed in short periods is water weight anyways.

just keep at what you're doin. 8 lbs in 3 weeks is good and healthy weight loss (even slighty fast). If you lost 20 lbs in that time frame I'd be worried for you. Thats certainly unhealthy and mostly water weight anyways.


good luck to your goal.
 
1 gallon of water = 8 lbs of water
fat is less dense than water ("fat floats")

therefore, 8 lbs of fat would occupy a volume greater than 1 gallon. :Q
 
It's a lot bigger than a pound of butter. Butter is more than just pure fat, and is actually pretty dense.

I saw an infomercial that had an example of 5lbs of fat, and it was a HUGE blob...
 
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