Is this true???

[nikki_e]

2Big wrote in another post:

"If you really want to beimpressed with your loss start saving your empty butter boxes and plice them up they are a pound each and soon you will be seeing how much you are losing. if you add 2 rools of pennies to it you got a pound weight and a pound of fat size too."

Is this really true? Not that I want to doubt 2Big, because I know how knowledgable she is, but its hard to believe! Am I reading this right? The size of a pound of butter is comprable to the size of a pound of fat? I just can't even picture how big 70 boxes of butter would be! I am blown away. Speechless...

[not2late]

A pound is a pound is a pound.

If you want to 'feel' the weight you lost, you can go to a garden center and find a bag of something comparable to the weight you lost and pick it up.

Over the weekend I got a reality check when I heaved a 40 pound bag of potting soil onto my cart. That bag was heavy and I lost that plus 20 more pounds!

[nikki_e]

I understand that a pound is a pound when it comes to weight, but what about size? Is the butter box the same size as one pound of body fat?

[not2late]

I think it depends. If you remember back to high school biology class when you had to dissect animals, fat is arranged either in sheets or in finger-like projections. I can easily see a pound of fat fitting into a butter box, just as easily I can see 2 pound of fat fitting into it depending on how the fat is arranged...

[Roserae]

Well....butter is pretty much 100% fat, right....so....

[tickletussler]

Which is heavier?

A pound of butter of a pound of feathers?

[IrishIrish]

Whether a pound of fat, literally, takes the space of one pound of weight loss, the point is you aren't carrying the weight equating to 70 of those one pound containers of butter. For me, I buy 10 pound bags of dry cat food and I can't imagine, after one day of lugging one of those bags up a flight of stairs, how I ever made it up the stairs at my highest weight!!!

It's just a way to remind us of what we are leaving behind ... literally and figuratively.

[Alienore]

I visited my parents last week who have acquired a new puppy - her weight as of last week was the equivalent of what I've lost so far so for me that was very encouraging.

Hopefully the next time I see her there will be less of me and more of her!


Deborah

[LuvMy2Boys]

This might be gross to some people, but you can actually purchase a replica of what 1 lb of fat actually looks like. You can also get 5 lbs of fat as well. Here is the link:

http://amos.shop.com/amos/cc/main/ccn_search/st/one-pound%20fat%20replica/sy/productsx/ccsyn/260/prd/16930465/ccsid/368711140-22776/adtg/04180541

It is really an eye-opener to imagine that this used to be attached to your body.

For me, I had 2 (5-pound) of these attached to my body...and I need to lose 20 more of them. Whew! It's motivating though. Hope it didn't gross you out!

[Isabeau]

Which is heavier?

A pound of butter of a pound of feathers?

*chuckles*

[2big4mysize]

1)CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 72nd
Edition, 1991-92
2)Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 8th Edition, 1952


HUMAN DEPOT FAT--- 0.918
human fat---0.903
BEEF BUTTER FAT---0.911
beef butter fat---0.907-0.912

they are very very close in mass/vol which means the same weight of both will fit in about the same space with the human fat needing a little more room.

[nikki_e]

Thanks for the info. That still blows my mind. I just cannot picture the space that 75 boxes of butter would take up.