How many calories in a pound of human fat?

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

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?

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

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.

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.

Ahh. Yeah.

 

[Sluggo]

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.

Sounds great in theory, the problem here is that your body is smarter than you are.

If your body senses that starvation is occuring, it can shut your metabolism down to little more than a slow crawl. It will burn muscle instead of fat reserves for fuel. In a pinch I would wager that your body can survive on 200 calories a day while you will be so lethargic that simply getting out of bed will seem a tremendous undertaking.

Without calorie intake your body will continue to burn your muscle for fuel, saving only enough muscle to maintain minimum ability to move before it turns to its emergency fat stores for fuel.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Megatomic

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

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.

Yeah, he needs to read a couple nutrition and health books.

 

[RabidMongoose]

Fat is fat free! 0 calories, 0 carbs, 0 fat

eat away

 

[amdforever2]

Why would a body burn muscle before fat.

That makes no sense.

Organism is starving. It needs muscle to hunt. Fat serves no purpose.

So which do you burn, the stuff you need to procure food, or the other crap?

That makes no sense. Human beings are a bad design.

Someone should patch us.

 

[BD231]

Originally posted by: amdforever2
Why would a body burn muscle before fat.

That makes no sense.

Organism is starving. It needs muscle to hunt. Fat serves no purpose.

So which do you burn, the stuff you need to procure food, or the other crap?

That makes no sense. Human beings are a bad design.

Someone should patch us.

The body can only make carbohydrates from protein when there's a shortage. When you have a shortage in calories the body will take from muscle first because muscle takes up so much energy. It only makes sense to eat from something that's consuming energy first, THEN eat from fat. That's why it's such a b*tch to loose weight.

 

[babypanda]

3500 calories= 1 lb fat

 

[Cattlegod]

nasty!

 

[dfi]

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.

I was reading a story about a morbidly obese (1000 lb range) man who became afraid to eat. He died of starvation at somewhere around 600 lbs. So don't kid yourself, if you stop eating you can starve to death at a heavy bodyweight.

dfi