What does a pound of fat look like?

[Hitchking]

Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
big is it?

I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger than
your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right? I
figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much fat
I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might be
easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.

So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough to
fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?

-Jim

[The Queen]

Hitchking <hitchking@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like?

i read somewhere that it looks like chicken fat: yellow and
lumpy and disgusting.

> I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger than
> your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right?
> I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much
> fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might
> be easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.

dude, if the size of your own ass isn't motivation enough...

> So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough to
> fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?

i really don't know. i just wanted to post the comparison to
chicken fat so i could find out if it's true or not. i figure
if anyone anywhere is going to know, it'll be someone here.

[Hard Heade]

"Hitchking" <hitchking@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:stF-
Xa.102920$rsJ.8424@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
> big is it?
>
> I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger than
> your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right?
> I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much
> fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might
> be easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.
>
> So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough to
> fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?
>
> -Jim

http://www.wv-hsta.org/summer_2001/index%20pm%20week%201/Anat-
omyPM/fat.jpg

[Brian Link]

If you have more muscle on your body, you might look slimmer
yet weigh more. That's because a pound of muscle takes up less
room in your body than a pound of fat. A pound of muscle is
about the size of a tennis ball, while a pound of fat is about
the size of a large grapefruit. That pound of muscle also is
25 times more efficient at burning calories than fat.

-- from
http://www.azstarnet.com/health/fitness/021219fitness.shtml --
Source: Patrick Ziebell, executive director, Evolution
Exercise & Spine Center

[Dudara]

"Hard Headed Woman" <HardHeadedWoman999@charter.net> wrote in
message news:<viugsom433ii05@corp.supernews.com>...
> "Hitchking" <hitchking@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:s-
> tFXa.102920$rsJ.8424@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> > Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
> > big is it?
> >
> > I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger
> > than your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound),
> > right? I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine
> > how much fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd
> > make. Might be easier to skip the second helping of
> > potatoes.
> >
> > So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough
> > to fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?
> >
> > -Jim
>
>
>
> http://www.wv-hsta.org/summer_2001/index%20pm%20week%201/An-
> atomyPM/fat.jpg

Next time you're at the butchers, have a look at some kidneys.
They're sheathed in a solid lump of fat in order to cushion
them from blows and knocks. To get the kidney out, the casing
or shell of fat is cracked open, just like a nut. To me,
that's just nasty.

The thing is, that's not soft fat, it's hard stuff. Think
of the juices that solidify in a cooking tray after you
roast a chicken.

[Elvis Pars]

"Hitchking" <hitchking@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:stF-
Xa.102920$rsJ.8424@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
> big is it?
>
> I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger than
> your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right?
> I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much
> fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might
> be easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.
>
> So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough to
> fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?

Take 504ml of water seal it in a zip lock bag without air, and
you have your pound of fat volume, in a nice convenient
flexible pouch.

[Tom Morley]

Hitchking wrote:
> Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
> big is it?
>
> I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger than
> your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right?
> I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much
> fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might
> be easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.
>
> So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough to
> fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?
>
> -Jim
>
>

Go to http://www.chponline.com and do a seach for
"bodyfat replica".

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[Tom Morley]

Elvis Parsley wrote:
> "Hitchking" <hitchking@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:s-
> tFXa.102920$rsJ.8424@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
>
>>Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
>>big is it?
>>
>>I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger than
>>your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right?
>>I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much
>>fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might
>>be easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.
>>
>>So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough to
>>fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?
>
>
> Take 504ml of water seal it in a zip lock bag without air,
> and you have your pound of fat volume, in a nice convenient
> flexible pouch.
>
>

Yep. "A pint's a pound, the world arround"

--
Tom Morley | Same roads morley@math.gatech.edu | Same rights
tmorley@mindspring.com | Same rules AIM: DocTDM

[Sacred Pna]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 03:41:34 GMT, dhrravr@ohatzhapu.bet (The
Queen of Cans and Jars) wrote:

>Hitchking <hitchking@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like?
>
>i read somewhere that it looks like chicken fat: yellow and
>lumpy and disgusting.
>
>> I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger
>> than your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound),
>> right? I figure this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how
>> much fat I'd lose and how much of a difference it'd make.
>> Might be easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.
>
>dude, if the size of your own ass isn't motivation enough...
>
>> So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough
>> to fill a litre water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?
>
>i really don't know. i just wanted to post the comparison to
>chicken fat so i could find out if it's true or not. i figure
>if anyone anywhere is going to know, it'll be someone here.

It does look like chicken fat. Having seen quite a few
surgeries, it is yucky.

[T.R.H.]

Not sure about human fat, but when I clean swamp donkeys &
deer the outside fat is not that bad looking, but the knobby
stuff inside is a tad disgusting...

"Tom Morley" <tmorley@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:bgo7d9$vn$1@slb4.atl.mindspring.net...
>
>
> Hitchking wrote:
> > Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How
> > big is it?
> >
> > I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be bigger
> > than your
standard
> > 500ml water bottle (roughly one pound), right? I figure
> > this'll help motivate me, I can imagine how much fat I'd
> > lose and how much of a difference it'd make. Might be
> > easier to skip the second helping of potatoes.
> >
> > So what are we talkin' here? A pound of fat, about enough
> > to fill a
litre
> > water bottle? Something like that? Anyone?
> >
> > -Jim
> >
> >
>
> Go to http://www.chponline.com and do a seach for "bodyfat
> replica".
>
>
> --
> Tom Morley | Same roads morley@math.gatech.edu | Same rights
> tmorley@mindspring.com | Same rules AIM: DocTDM

[Pat Norton]

Tom Morley wrote:
>Hitchking wrote:
>>Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How big
>>is it? I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be
>>bigger than your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one
>>pound), right?
>
>"A pint's a pound, the world arround"

Only if 'world' = USA. The British and Irish say "A pint of
water weighs a pound and a quarter".

More precise values for water are: US liquid pint ~ 1.04 lb US
dry pt ~ 1.2 lb imperial pt ~ 1.25 lb 1 ml = 1 g

The density of fat is 0.9 g/ml. So the 500 ml bottle weighs
500 g (1.1
lb) when full of water but only 450 g (0.99 lb) when
full of fat.

Calculating the other way: 500 g of water occupies a volume of
500 ml. 500 g of fat occupies a volume of 555 ml.

[Hardworkin]

"T.R.H." <TRH@.spam.com> wrote in message
news:<lFUXa.49184$JT2.1018980@news2.telusplanet.net>...
> Not sure about human fat, but when I clean swamp donkeys &
> deer the outside fat is not that bad looking, but the knobby
> stuff inside is a tad disgusting...
>

Swamp donkeys? Sounds kind of like something Ralph Bakshi
would make up.

[Tom Morley]

Pat Norton wrote:
> Tom Morley wrote:
>
>>Hitchking wrote:
>>
>>>Ok, 3500 calories of fat, what does that look like? How big
>>>is it? I know it's lighter than water, so it's gotta be
>>>bigger than your standard 500ml water bottle (roughly one
>>>pound), right?
>>
>>"A pint's a pound, the world arround"
>
>
> Only if 'world' = USA. The British and Irish say "A pint of
> water weighs a pound and a quarter".
>
> More precise values for water are: US liquid pint ~ 1.04 lb
> US dry pt ~ 1.2 lb imperial pt ~ 1.25 lb 1 ml = 1 g
>
> The density of fat is 0.9 g/ml. So the 500 ml bottle weighs
> 500 g (1.1
> lb) when full of water but only 450 g (0.99 lb) when full of
> fat.
>
> Calculating the other way: 500 g of water occupies a volume
> of 500 ml. 500 g of fat occupies a volume of 555 ml.

"The world arround" is just intended to rhyme. A mnemonic.

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