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What is the mass of fat?
Is that the right question?
My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Surely, I'll lose some fat from other places along the way, and some muscle too. So I'll throw in a fudge factor of some sort and see what I come up with. Thanks! |
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What is the mass of fat?
"em" wrote:
Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Surely, I'll lose some fat from other places along the way, and some muscle too. So I'll throw in a fudge factor of some sort and see what I come up with. |
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What is the mass of fat?
"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message oups.com... "em" wrote: Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Look at a pound of butter. It is a pound of fat. |
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What is the mass of fat?
On Aug 16, 2:06 pm, "determined" wrote:
"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message oups.com... "em" wrote: Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Look at a pound of butter. It is a pound of fat. Probably a caliper test would give you roughly what you want then. Normally total body fat is determined using the belly and several other places, but you can probably find some single caliper measurement indicators. The general one of course is that you are overweight if you can "pinch an inch". Now, you cannot lose fat just in your belly, so the question is academic though. Situps or similar exercises also strenghten the stomach muscles. This doesn't "spot reduce", but it does improve the appearance and give better muscle tone. In lieu of caliper measurements you could just use total waist measurement too. That's an easier number to compare since many weight standards including the one used by the US Navy use this one. Someone your height for example should have a waist circumference no larger than some number. You get this number from a chart. My guess is that you can also tell by looking in the mirror. dkw |
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What is the mass of fat?
"determined" wrote in message ... "Doug Freyburger" wrote in message oups.com... "em" wrote: Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Look at a pound of butter. It is a pound of fat. actually it is 0.8 pounds of fat and 0.2 pounds of water. |
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What is the mass of fat?
"Del Cecchi" wrote in message ... "determined" wrote in message ... "Doug Freyburger" wrote in message oups.com... "em" wrote: Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Look at a pound of butter. It is a pound of fat. actually it is 0.8 pounds of fat and 0.2 pounds of water. What's your friggin' point? A lb of butter is a pretty decent representation of what a lb of bodyfat looks like. I'm guessing that bodyfat has even more water by volume, but is it really necessary to have an EXACT representation? |
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What is the mass of fat?
"determined" wrote in message . .. "Del Cecchi" wrote in message ... "determined" wrote in message ... "Doug Freyburger" wrote in message oups.com... "em" wrote: Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Look at a pound of butter. It is a pound of fat. actually it is 0.8 pounds of fat and 0.2 pounds of water. What's your friggin' point? A lb of butter is a pretty decent representation of what a lb of bodyfat looks like. I'm guessing that bodyfat has even more water by volume, but is it really necessary to have an EXACT representation? What was your point invoking butter to compare to body fat? Butter is not pure fat. Why didn't you say a pound of crisco? or a pint of olive oil? No big deal, just picking a nit, being pedantic, pulling your chain. |
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What is the mass of fat?
"Del Cecchi" wrote in message ... "determined" wrote in message . .. "Del Cecchi" wrote in message ... "determined" wrote in message ... "Doug Freyburger" wrote in message oups.com... "em" wrote: Is that the right question? You probably want body fat percentage, though that's the whole body rather than belly in particular. The gold standard is water immersion. Protein Power by Drs Eades has a chapter about taking measurements to calculate it. My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Look at a pound of butter. It is a pound of fat. actually it is 0.8 pounds of fat and 0.2 pounds of water. What's your friggin' point? A lb of butter is a pretty decent representation of what a lb of bodyfat looks like. I'm guessing that bodyfat has even more water by volume, but is it really necessary to have an EXACT representation? What was your point invoking butter to compare to body fat? Butter is not pure fat. Why didn't you say a pound of crisco? or a pint of olive oil? There we go! I've got about a gallon of olive oil floating around in there. Harrumph. That doesn't sound very useful. I've got much more then 8 pounds to go. Maybe its more like a three-gallon gut. Ugh. Yuck. I was laying on the bed last night bouncing my stomach around. Disgusting. Three gallons of.... lard. Can't wait to get rid of this ****. |
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What is the mass of fat?
On Aug 18, 4:41 pm, "Cubit" wrote:
"em" wrote in ... Is that the right question? My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Surely, I'll lose some fat from other places along the way, and some muscle too. So I'll throw in a fudge factor of some sort and see what I come up with. Thanks! The "mass of fat" is a splinter cult ritual that broke off from the church of Satan about 5 years ago. They no longer sacrifice virgins. Capturing the most obese is key to filling the alter, and keeping the pentagram fires lit with a fresh supply of human tallow. Actually, you don't have to even form a splinter group. If you believe in the Holy Sacrament as practiced by the church and Transubstantiation, you are already eating the blood and body of Christ. The debate is still on whether he was obese or not, but there is some reference to him being gluttonous in the Bible. dkw |
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What is the mass of fat?
"em" wrote in message ... Is that the right question? My stomach is where I carry most of my fat. I want to try and measure my stomach as it is and calculate the number of pounds of fat in there that I have to lose. Surely, I'll lose some fat from other places along the way, and some muscle too. So I'll throw in a fudge factor of some sort and see what I come up with. Thanks! The "mass of fat" is a splinter cult ritual that broke off from the church of Satan about 5 years ago. They no longer sacrifice virgins. Capturing the most obese is key to filling the alter, and keeping the pentagram fires lit with a fresh supply of human tallow. |
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