Comments on: Losing Weight? Losing Mass!

By: Be Fit To Play

Be Fit To Play — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:02:33 +0000

Reading this made me laugh on the inside. I can picture people standing on scales in the elevator and looking every time they go down. Just to make them feel a little better about them selves. As far as losing weight goes, people should not focus as much on it. They should focus more on losing the fat and creating a nice lean body, through fat loss. Unless of course they have a lot of extra weight on them then they should worry about both. ChaLean Extreme Home Workout Program, is a great program that has you focusing on building those nice lean muscles. And, having you lose all that fat mass, because like you mentioned that is really what everyone want to lose in the first place.

By: cannot lose weight

cannot lose weight — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:58:40 +0000

Nice! Weight = mass x g, and on earth g is about 9.8.

Of course, even losing mass isn’t the real goal. The real goal is to lose fat mass.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:18:00 +0000

great post….and I really love the biggest loser and what it’s doing for the world….showing people that anyone can do it!

By: Danah

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By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:04:47 +0000

You are so right, fat loss is what is needed to truly lose weight. Very good post!

By: Selena

Selena — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:33:10 +0000

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By: mooeypoo

mooeypoo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:43:02 +0000

Actually, it depends.

Technically, pounds are the units for weight, while for mass, you should be using “Slug”. But no one is using that anymore so it became the norm to confuse the two.

I usually try to use SI units (Kilograms and Newton) because in physics it’s much easier to handle them, but even if your units are imperial, the idea is that you want to be leaner — that is, you want to lose the mass of fat and replace it with mass of muscle. That would affect your weight, but weight loss isn’t your actual goal.

And thank you very much for the podcast compliment – I had a lot of fun, I LOVE the Skeptic Zone!

By: Slurm

Slurm — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:57:30 +0000

“pounds are units for measuring weight”

Wouldnt the terminology then be correct? If I say I want to “lose 10 pounds”, am I not attempting to lose weight? I understand that people should really say “I want to remove mass”

Shouldnt the problem be “where where you when you lost the weight? Maybe I can help you find it.”

Im probably all wrong…thoughts?

(btw, caught you on the skeptic zone podcast, good stuff!)

By: mooeypoo

mooeypoo — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:33:03 +0000

That’s a good point.

Balance scales are not really “measuring” per say, they’re comparing. You are looking for a “counter-mass” that balances out the mass you put on the scale, so no matter what the gravity in your environment is, all objects will exert the same force proportional to their mass.

But a spring scale is actually measuring the amount the spring has contracted by a certain object on it, so it is used to directly measure the force that the object exerts.

Great point, thank you

~moo

By: nowoo

nowoo — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:23:52 +0000

Nicely done. Along the same lines, many people are not aware that pounds are units for measuring weight, while kilograms are units for measuring mass. A spring scale is a device for measuring weight, while a balance scale is a device for measuring mass. Even on the moon, a balance scale would let you measure a kilogram of moon rocks simply by putting a standard 1 kg mass object on the other side of the balance.