how much does muscle weigh?

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Registered: 10-08-2003
how much does muscle weigh?
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Thu, 05-13-2004 - 8:52am
hi

lately i have put on a bit of weight, due to the fact that i have bought an excercise bike and have been going on it every night (i wont go into how long as its obvious that its not normal) anyway, i was just wondering if anyone knew how much muscle weighed in comparison to fat as i am kind of starting to freak out a bit about the weight i have put on. my aim is to drop a couple of clothes sizes, not neccessarily weigh so much less, i dont mind weighin more as long as i dont have these tyres of fat round my tummy...i just want to feel good about myself, happy when i look in the mirror. the thing with me is its always all or nothing; as you can probably tell by the fact that im on this website asking these questions, right now, its all..excercise to burn off the calories i dont actually have in my body, so excercise to burn off the fat. as this might be a trigger for some, i won't expect too many replies, but if anyone knows the answer to how much muscle weighs in comparison to fat ie 3kg fat burned into muscle = 6kg or something like that...anything really.

this probably sounds rather pathetic and desperate, but as someone i know has just walked into this comp room and sat down next to me, i am typing this without actually seeing what im typing properly; i made the window for this really tiny, in the corner, so i can see about 3 lines above the words i type...if you can understand that...... i think this girl (who kind of knows about my preious bulimic tendencies and has an ed (im worried this might trigger her as she has started to eat lunch again, is eating more normally) i think she might have seen the bit about the ex bike..she didnt know about that...then i made the window tiny and she has been surrupticiously trying to read what i write ever since, but cant actually see it, neither can i (as previously explained).

so, my basic question is the one about how much muscle weighs in relation to how much fat you have to burn or how much you have to use the muscles or any tiny little fact about it? i just realised that fat is completely seperate to muscle, so it would be how much the muscle weighs after you use it for a certain amout of time/intensity.

any answers would be greatly appreciated...

thanx,

lauren x x x

p.s. my friend now seems to be in a bit of a modd as i just shrunk the window so that i can only see one word at a time...it would be funny if i wasnt so worried i might just have triggered a relapse for her...she's on a different board, not specifically an ed one i dont think, but it has a load of depressin peoms on it...i am feeling completely sick about her seeing the thing about the ex bike...my hands are shaking a little!! i am sooooooooo pathetic...i just real;ly hope she didnt see or if she did, she wont have a relapse....

really not feeling good...

would be really grateful for any answers to my question as i have surfed the net and cant find a straight answer...

this info would help me relax a bit and prob eat a bit more as i would make allowance for the muscle when i weigh myself...i would know it burns off the cals and is not just more lumps of fat...

sorry to end on such a depressing note...

got to get to lessons now...
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 6:22am

Hi Lauren,


I don't think there is one specific answer to this question. Everybody is different and therefore everybody burns fat and increases muslce at a different rate. What I am wondering about is why you are so focused on getting smaller. I know you think it's all about body image, but with EDs it typically isn't. Have you talked to anybody about your ED? I can't remember if you are in therapy or not - sorry - but it would be really helpful.

Love & hugs, Kristina


The opinions I have expressed here are from my own experience and are not intended as medical advice or to take the place of your own physician's advice.

Love & hugs, Kristina

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Registered: 10-08-2003
Fri, 05-14-2004 - 8:50am
thanx for answering Kristina,

no, im not in therapy. i've tried to think of other reasons for my ed...other problems that might be the real cause but to be perfectly honest, my life is ok...i mean i dont get on with my brother at all, we hardly speak except to criticise or complain to each other...he's going to uni in sept so he'll finally be gone and i'll finally be free of his ever-critical eye and preconceptions and judgements that i know he makes about me. Sometimes i do wish we were friends, but we dont have anything in common, we sometimes gang up on our parents, but not very often. my parents are really lovely most of the time, they cant do enough for me...my dad is always taking me places, to work, parties, friends' houses etc, and he never really complains...ive been getting on better with my mum over the past year or so...before i didnt like her as much and me and James (brother) were always yelling at each other, so she was often miserable....now we dont yell, dont really speak, so she isnt so miserable and we get on ok.

ive just thought of something....i had these friends for 3 years and i always felt like i was on the outside looking in, trying to get on with them, say interesting things and i thought we had loads in common...ive lately realised we dont, never have. i have real friends now, so i know the difference. there used to be a load of awkward silences, or just silences...now i have friends i always have things to say to...friends who have things in common with me...anyway, these other friends (polly, nat and 'sharlie' (i never liked 'sharlie'-she was always doing things, saying things to try and be cool and we really didnt have anything in common-we used to compete a bit in lessons and she is not the cleverst, though she tries hard...so i would practically always get better marks without even trying ie no revision for tests/doing homework on the coach. and i dont follow the crowd if i dont like what their doing... Anyway, sharlie and nat started to ignore me and polly, so we became much b etter friends, then they decided to talk to polly, so they all started to ignore me...for about 6months or more, i kept trying to talk to them, i got invited to their parties because they felt they had to invite me, not because they liked me/wanted me there...i realised polly was obviously as bad as sharlie and nat, so i found new friends (at sharlie's party!!). and i started to ignore them, havent actually said anything to any of them for about 2 yrs...they didnt even notice, then a year or two later i called polly a bitch, on-line...we hjavent said anything about it, but she was trying to deny that nat and sharlie ignored her and me etc...all in my imagination...anyway i hate them...the worst thing is, i dont think they care either way about me...that's what hurts; they dont seem to care at all...they think i just randomly went off with some other ppl, but dont give a ****! im still really bitter about it, 2 yrs later...

an example of how bad they were as friends; i was ill, threw up in the loos (before bulimia started) and came out all white and shaky, they were laughing bout something...i told them i had just been sick and they said "maybe your pregnant!" and then burst out laughin. whether they meant it or not, i took it as though they thought the thought of a boy wanting to do anything like that with me, was just a joke...

wow, this is a breakthrough...i think im so worried about how i look, because i think they didnt want to know me, my brother doesnt want to know me, all the 'popular' people at school dont care really, but i speak my mind, so they try to avoid me...i've never had a proper boyfriend...i went out with some guys, met some at a ball etc, kissed them, but never had the courage to call them...

so, i solved the problem; i feel like people dont want me and maybe they will when im thin...that's so stupid! i know that it makes no difference and they will either like me/not whether im thin or not...maybe its coz i think i can control my weight/clothes size, but not how other people see me/think about me...huh...how strange...i think i also dont want people to have anything else to say about me behind my back ie she's so fat...i dont mind them saying im a bitch, just because i speak my mind, they're probably just jealous...maybe that's it................i want them to be jealous of me....................i dont want them to have any excuse to look down their nose at me and, if im honest, i think my clothes size is my major problem...im not thick, im a bit sarcastic, but i have loads of friends...i quite like my life-i have a fun job at a horse-riding stables...

wow...so i just dont want ppl to have any reason to look down their noses at me...BREAKTHROUGH!!!!!


however, just because i know the problem does not mean that i can cure it...im still going to think that way, only now it wont be so subconsciously...is that good or bad?! oh well, it obviously hasnt made much difference as im still sitting infront of this computer instead of running accross the school and giving my rumbling tummy what it wants...food. huh...this last half hour or so has been very intriguing, and ive only been talking to me!! but i gues writing my thoughts down, as i have them helps me to link them all together better...

this has been...interesting....

Lauren

~a bit confused~

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