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A Pound Of Fat

Ladywriter1968
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Can some one tell me what a One pound of fat equals to in food wise? How much food is this? Even if you tell me its marg or butter that you buy wrapped up, it would give me some idea then?

I have no scale thingy here to measure it. for example,

Thanks.

1LB of fat?
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  • dogmaryxx
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    edited 3 July 2011 at 4:49PM
    A pound of fat is about 3,500 calories
    Approx 3232 calories in 1 pound of butter
  • RussJK
    RussJK Posts: 2,359 Forumite
    A pound of fat is a lot of roast potatoes here ... ;)
  • patman99
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    Whats this got to do with technology?.
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  • spud17
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    About 650g butter or several tonnes of celery.
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • Ladywriter1968
    Ladywriter1968 Posts: 913 Forumite
    patman99 wrote: »
    Whats this got to do with technology?.
    nothing, just cant find thread for fats and things. I guess it is technology in a way. A pound of fat could be a pound equivalent to inside pc or something. as in gigabytes equiv. dunno
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    a pack of butter has the weight on, and metric/imperial converters are all over the web
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  • Mrs_Arcanum
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    A pound of fat is around 450g approx or 2 standard blocs of butter.
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  • whitewing
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    16oz is one Il and therefore 2x8oz packs of wrapped marg/butter.
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  • esuhl
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    Ladywriter1968 wrote: »
    A pound of fat could be a pound equivalent to inside pc or something. as in gigabytes equiv. dunno

    Well according to this website, losing a pound of body fat would require you to reduce your energy intake by 3,500 calories, which is roughly 14.644MJ - enough energy to power a computer consuming an average of 250W for just over 16hrs 15min.
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