I got back from the gym last night and was thinking about weight loss and fat.  "A pint's a pound the world 'round", Saint Alton tells us.  A pint of water weighs a pound (or close enough thereabouts to call it such, technically, it's 1.04317556 pounds, but that's pretty close, wouldn't ya say?).  That makes a gallon of water roughly 8 pounds.  But that's water.  Of course, fat floats on water, which makes it less dense and take up more volume.  How much volume?  That's the question that I asked myself around midnight last night and couldn't go to bed until I had my answer.

The net seems to agree that fat is about 90% the density of water (approximately 0.9 grams/milliliter whereas water, by definition is 1.0 g/mL, and muscle is 10% denser at 1.1 g/mL).  Luckily, Google offers an instant conversion from pretty much everything to pretty much everything else (you might ask why I didn't use Windows Live Search and if you were to ask, my answer would be "because Windows Live Search sucks ass and doesn't even load any results for me").  Doing the conversion, I found out that a gallon of human fat weighs approximately 7.5 pounds.  So go pull a gallon container out of the fridge.  Look at it.  When you lose 7.5 pounds, you've lost that much fat.  Gross and awesome at the same time.  Now, since I've lost almost 15 pounds since starting at the gym a couple months ago (10-12 pounds net weight loss plus guesstimating a gain of 3-5 pounds of muscle, displacing the same mass of fat), I've lost 2 whole gallons of fat. 

Of course, with 30 pounds to go, there's the better part of a 5-gallon bucket to go.  That's a long way to go, but swell progress.  Just 20 or 30 weeks left till then...

4 freakin' gallons of this shit.  Time to go.