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How many calories in a pound of human fat?

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amdforever2

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As in, let's say a really fat person takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard, weighs a pound of it.

Someone eats it.

How many calories did they just eat?
 
Originally posted by: amdforever2
As in, let's say a really fat person takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard, weighs a pound of it.

Someone eats it.

How many calories did they just eat?
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that's disgusting. go search google dahmer jr.
 
Originally posted by: amdforever2
As in, let's say a really fat person takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard, weighs a pound of it.

Someone eats it.

How many calories did they just eat?
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~3,500, IIRC. It's somewhere in the 3 thousand range.
 
Originally posted by: Mookow
Originally posted by: amdforever2
As in, let's say a really fat person takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard, weighs a pound of it.

Someone eats it.

How many calories did they just eat?
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~3,500, IIRC. It's somewhere in the 3 thousand range.
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Well..

There are 28.34g in an oz. There are 16oz in a lb.

There are 9 calories per gram(I think that should be right)..

So there are about 4080 raw calories in a lb of fat?

Not sure if the kind of fat(pig, cow.. human..) changes it or not.
 
A pound of fat is 454grams times 9 calories per gram = 4086.

But asking this question about human fat seems pretty ill-advised.
 
Why is this sick? Its perfectly understandable for a person trying to lose fat. It can be used to calculate how much of a calorie deficit is needed per day to lose weight. Its around 3600 calories if i remember correctly.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Mookow
Originally posted by: amdforever2
As in, let's say a really fat person takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard, weighs a pound of it.

Someone eats it.

How many calories did they just eat?
Click to expand...

~3,500, IIRC. It's somewhere in the 3 thousand range.
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Well..

There are 28.34g in an oz. There are 16oz in a lb.

There are 9 calories per gram(I think that should be right)..

So there are about 4080 raw calories in a lb of fat?

Not sure if the kind of fat(pig, cow.. human..) changes it or not.
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But a pound of fat is not all fat. It's about 10% water. All of our body tissues--fat, muscle, bone, skin--contain some water. And water has zero calories.
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Originally posted by: XietyCOM
Why is this sick? Its perfectly understandable for a person trying to lose fat. It can be used to calculate how much of a calorie deficit is needed per day to lose weight. Its around 3600 calories if i remember correctly.
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Then why wasn't the question 'how much of a calorie deficit would I need to lose a pound of fat?'?
 
Originally posted by: XietyCOM
Why is this sick? Its perfectly understandable for a person trying to lose fat.
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read the OP, it isn't about losing fat

"takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard"
"someone eats it"
 
I've become so tired of excercise and diet, I'm going to stop eating.

It is possible.

Since you're supposed to consume 2000 calories a day, I suppose that means the body uses 2000 calories a day.

Therefore, I will lose a pound every 2 days. 3.5lbs a week. 10 weeks for 35lbs.
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Maybe the OP wants to lose 1 pound of fat. Burning 4000 cals is not gonna be easy.
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However, cutting your daily caloric intake back to a lower level, and mix it with moderate amounts of exercise isn't that difficult. 🙂
 
Tell me starving africans aren't skinny.

Tell me Mary Kate isn't skinny.

Health going bad because I'm a fatass or health going bad because I don't eat anything is all the same. At least I'll feel better about myself.

Now, since 3.5lbs a week is not acceptable. . . how many miles would one have to bike to burn 5000 calories.

If I can somehow burn 7000 calories a day and eat nothing, success!
 
fasting won't kill you (for a while anyway), if you keep taking vitamins and drink much water. as long as you don't do it for more than 1-2 months
 
Originally posted by: amdforever2
I've become so tired of excercise and diet, I'm going to stop eating.

It is possible.

Since you're supposed to consume 2000 calories a day, I suppose that means the body uses 2000 calories a day.

Therefore, I will lose a pound every 2 days. 3.5lbs a week. 10 weeks for 35lbs.
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ha ha.. that reminds me of Office Space
how did the quote go:

dude 1: We're going to an occupational hynotherapist... He helped my wife lose weight
dude 2: She's Annorexic
dude 1: Yeah, he's good!
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
fasting won't kill you (for a while anyway), if you keep taking vitamins and drink much water. as long as you don't do it for more than 1-2 months
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It's insane to even think about it. Most people (that I know of) who fast do it for 1 day a week and they do it for spiritual reasons. He said 10 weeks to lose 35lbs., that's not going to be very healthy.
 
Originally posted by: Mookow
Originally posted by: amdforever2
As in, let's say a really fat person takes a knife to their stomach, cuts out the lard, weighs a pound of it.

Someone eats it.

How many calories did they just eat?
Click to expand...

~3,500, IIRC. It's somewhere in the 3 thousand range.
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Yup. That is the quoted fiture.

Originally posted by: amdforever2
I've become so tired of excercise and diet, I'm going to stop eating.

It is possible.

Since you're supposed to consume 2000 calories a day, I suppose that means the body uses 2000 calories a day.

Therefore, I will lose a pound every 2 days. 3.5lbs a week. 10 weeks for 35lbs.
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Well again the quoted figur efor a man is 2500 calories. For a woman it is 2000 calories. So you'll need to up your numbers a bit.

3.5lbs a week will be tough going unless you eat REALLY REALLY poorly and really cut it up nicely. Then exercise like a freak. 2-3 weeks will be easier but to get the same results after about 5 weeks will be dam near enough insane to be losing 3.5lbs a week still after 5 weeks!

Koing
 
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