Where does the fat go that you lost?

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  • nytefalle
    nytefalle Posts: 63
    At night it becomes one of these, and walks away.
    tumblr_los1v5wFqh1qijtvg.gif

    This little thing is amusing me so much. Too cute! What's it from?

    New Doctor Who, Season 4, Ep. 1 "Partners In Crime"

    Marketed as a diet pill, humans were being used as in incubator by an evil "nanny" for an alien race called Adipose that used fat deposits (adipose) to grow a bit before the babies wandered off from their host in the middle of the night. They can be found on the internets as stress balls, plushies, & on clothing :happy:
  • PunkyDucky
    PunkyDucky Posts: 283 Member
    Learned so much in this one thread! :)
  • tannermortimer
    tannermortimer Posts: 1
    Fuel + O2 = CO2 + H20

    this may seem like a complicated formula but it's easy. any fuel being used goes through the same process of anything being combusted. combustion always uses this formula. Fat being used as fuel turns into CO2 (that we exhale) and H2O (pee or sweat).

    just fyi cars use the same formula. bodies are more efficient but it is still super cool. :)
  • FindingAmy77
    FindingAmy77 Posts: 1,268 Member
    turns into water. waste, aspiration, sweat, etc. Watch this: http://youtu.be/NGKLpYtZ19Q
  • Keepcalmanddontblink
    Keepcalmanddontblink Posts: 718 Member
    At night it becomes one of these, and walks away.
    tumblr_los1v5wFqh1qijtvg.gif

    you beat me to it.
    Damn it all you awesome Dr. Who Fans. You beat me to it as well.
  • thebigcb
    thebigcb Posts: 2,210 Member
    ok this may be disgusting so forgive me in advance. When you lose weight where does it go? Do you poop it out? Do you sweat it out? This may sound dumb but i would imagine that someone losing weight does not poo out 50 lbs 100 lbs of stuff. The theory is that you can neither create nor destroy matter so every week that i have been losing 2 lbs where is it going? I don't "go" any more than usual and yet i have lost 9 lbs. 9lbs isn't a lot compared to some of you but in mass, as a physical, tangible thing, 10 lbs is alot of stuff.

    OH MY GOD
  • hazzad1112
    hazzad1112 Posts: 1 Member
    Excuse me if this sounds rude, I have been on a fat loss and body build system (muscle helps burn) I have watched my calories and macros, been using fat burners and drinking copius amounts of water. In 10 weeks I have seen a jump in weight started at 99kg went 102 now 97. Yet my fat index has gone from 35 to 24%. I have lost 17cm around my abdomen. So something is happening. I believe urine is the clue, I have noticed it being frothy, is that the fat waste content ? I believe yes, the poo I believe is normal waste, not just from food but the whole body process.
  • bigparao
    bigparao Posts: 1 Member
    This is the problem with the internet. People creating half believable answers and passing them off as the reality. Which then gets passed on in the real world countless times and now everyone is misinformed instead of uninformed.

    Fat is metabolised into energy, water and co2. About 80% of the weight u lose is actually breathed out, with the remaining being water (urine) and of course the actual energy itself. So the most significant answer is that you breathe it out. Not pee, not poop, not 'burned up',
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Holy thread resurrection @bigparao

    Combusted and the byproduct (C02) breathed out.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30494009
  • Geocitiesuser
    Geocitiesuser Posts: 1,429 Member
    fteale wrote: »
    Mostly it turns into CO2, which you breathe out.

    This

    Triglycerides are oxidized and come out as CO2, excrement is toxins, water, and undigested materials from the digestive track.

    I thought this was cool when I first learned about it.

    I uh, didn't read the thread so I don't know where the conversation has gone past this point, but I quoted the answer.
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