Where Does Your Fat Go When You Lose Weight?

Where Does Your Fat Go

When You Lose Weight?

December 17, 2014 | by Janet Fang

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/where-does-your-fat-go-when-you-lose-weight

photo credit: Elena Shashkina / Shutterstock.com

We talk a lot about dieting and burning off fat, but we actually have a lot of misconceptions
about weight loss.

Some people think fat is converted into energy or heat—a violation of the law of conservation of mass—while others think that the fat is somehow excreted or even converted to muscle.

I was told early on that you can never lose your fat cells (adipose) once you gain them...
they just shrink if you work it off.

Well, according to Andrew Brown from the University of New South Wales
and Australian TV personality (slash former physicist) Ruben Meerman, when you lose weight,
you exhale your fat.

Their new calculations, based on existing knowledge about biochemistry,
were published in the British Medical Journal this week.

“There is surprising ignorance and confusion about the metabolic process of weight loss,” Brown says
in a news release

. “The correct answer is that most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide,” Meerman adds.
“It goes into thin air.”

Excess carbs and proteins are converted into chemical compounds called triglycerides
(which consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) and then stored in the lipid droplets of fat cells.

To lose weight, you’re attempting to metabolize those triglycerides,
and that means unlocking the carbon that’s stored in your fat cells.

Losing 10 kilograms of human fat requires the inhalation of 29 kilograms of oxygen,
producing 28 kilograms of carbon dioxide and 11 kilograms of water.

That’s the metabolic fate of fat.

Then the duo calculated the proportion of the mass stored in those 10 kilograms of fat
that exits as carbon dioxide and as water when we lose weight.

By tracing the pathway of those atoms out of the body, they found that 8.4 of those kilograms
are exhaled as carbon dioxide.

Turns out, our lungs are the primary excretory organ for weight loss.

The remaining 1.6 kilograms becomes water, which is excreted in urine, feces, sweat,
breath, tears, and other bodily fluids.

So, for this upcoming post-holiday season, should we all just exhale more
to shed those extra pounds? No. Breathing more than required by a person’s metabolic rate
leads to hyperventilation, followed by dizziness, palpitations, and loss of consciousness.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/where-does-your-fat-go-when-you-lose-weight

 

losing weight

11 lbs lost


14 lbs lost
I am in love with the challenges and beyond grateful.
I have lost 7 kg, aka about 14 lbs.
I put these pictures together:
I was 144 lbs when I started and I am down to 128 lbs.
I really want to tone my belly more and maybe rounder glutei As well.
I think that I would like to lose 4-8 pounds more.
My other goal is to get safely out of keto (which did miracles!!)
and switch to a low carb diet, so that I can start following a healthy lifestyle
that includes all foods and maintain my new weight.
I can’t even believe that this is my body when I look in the pictures,
as I’ve never been so thin before.
I sincerely thank you!!!

13 lbs lost
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