Where does fat go?

jg627

Germany! The same place your hunger goes when you eat a snickers bar.
Warum bin ich immer hungrig?!!

Louise1247

Your body converts fat to usable energy for your muscles and other tissues through a series of complex metabolic processes. This causes your fat cells to shrink.

These metabolic activities also generate heat, which helps maintain your body temperature, and waste products. These waste products — water and carbon dioxide — are excreted in your urine and sweat or exhaled from your lungs.

donna_glasgow

heres the explanation I found

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/47642/lose_weight/what_happens_to_fat_cells_when_theyre_burned.html

SPBROOKS68

I've willed mine to all of the people in the world that I dislike...seems to be working: I'm shrinking; they're getting LARGE! :noway:

LOVE This

Muscles_Curves

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I think mine goes to Cleveland.

LoggingForLife

I think it's like gasoline in your car....it gets burned for energy. I think.

agthorn

It doesn't go anywhere. Fat cells just shrink.

^^ This. When you gain weight, you gain fat cells. When you lose weight, those cells just shrink, but they don't go away. This is why it's so easy to gain it back plus more.

The fat cells shrink because your body is taking the lipids stored in them and burning them (oxidizing) to release the energy to fuel your body (when calories eaten are less than calories expended). Conversely, if you have an excess of lipids that aren't used to fuel your body (calories eaten are greater than calories expended) your body will store those lipids in your existing fat cells. When it runs out of room, it will make more fat cells to store the excess lipids.

dansls1

If you ask the people around me it's going to my head

dobarber

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/body-fat/AN01327

whitneysaenz

Probably the same place all my socks go once I put them in the dryer. I'm assuming Narnia.

:laugh:

I think our dog eats all of my sons socks, but mine on the other hand just vanish!

Temple_Fit

hell, where it belongs

^^^LOVE IT^^^ BOOM ! :explode:

macnotes

Since our fat cells just shrink, I think liposuction would be a great idea once I get down to my goal weight Just kidding, I'm not that vain....and besides, I might need those fat "backpacks" for storage later...when I'm in "starvation mode" ha ha ha

THayesTeamNoXQS

Fat goes bye bye when you burn it right!! Turn it to muscle.

galegetsthin

I am pretty sure that up until recently ALL of your lost fat went straight to my *kitten*. Now, I am going with Meredith's Narnia conclusion.

HotCuppaJo

O my god I ask this question continuously.

^^^ Me too!!!

chrisb75

I think mine goes to Cleveland.

Crap! So that's where all of mine came from!

LabRat529

Fat is broken down into small molecules with biochemistry and fed into the Kreb Cycle to produce ATP. ATP is a high-energy molecule that is then broken down to provide chemical energy for the body.

Thus, in many ways, fat is "burned" to produce chemical energy.

And like all fuels, when burned, there are bi-products left over. CO2 is a common bi-product and is probably where the idea comes that you can breath yourself thin (you can't).

But the basic, simple answer is that fat becomes something else. It doesn't stay 'fat'. It's broken apart just like carbs and proteins are.

For the record, it is NOT excreted in your poop... any fat that's in your feces was never digested in the first place. It did not enter your body and then leave again.

It is also NOT excreted in your urine... at least not as fat. Tiny bits and pieces may be excreted in the form of sodium bicarbonate.... but not all carbon in sodium bicarbonate comes from fat, so it is incorrect to say that you pee out fat.

Onesnap

Actually the fat cells don't go anywhere.

They just shrink in size.

Sadly, once you've formed those extra cells by being heavy they are with you for life. Just smaller.

kyle4jem

Some fat is burnt and some is excreted.

High-calcium dairy fats for example, will bind to other fats and these go straight out to the can! :bigsmile:

renwicker

I think mine goes to Cleveland.

"Cleveland, come see both of our buildings.
Our main export is crippling depression."

Sorry, couldn't resist

LuckyLeprechaun

Fat is broken down into small molecules with biochemistry and fed into the Kreb Cycle to produce ATP. ATP is a high-energy molecule that is then broken down to provide chemical energy for the body.

Thus, in many ways, fat is "burned" to produce chemical energy.

And like all fuels, when burned, there are bi-products left over. CO2 is a common bi-product and is probably where the idea comes that you can breath yourself thin (you can't).

But the basic, simple answer is that fat becomes something else. It doesn't stay 'fat'. It's broken apart just like carbs and proteins are.

For the record, it is NOT excreted in your poop... any fat that's in your feces was never digested in the first place. It did not enter your body and then leave again.

It is also NOT excreted in your urine... at least not as fat. Tiny bits and pieces may be excreted in the form of sodium bicarbonate.... but not all carbon in sodium bicarbonate comes from fat, so it is incorrect to say that you pee out fat.

Science, for the win!!!!

I love being frieds with such smart people :bigsmile:

Rae6503

Fat is broken down into small molecules with biochemistry and fed into the Kreb Cycle to produce ATP. ATP is a high-energy molecule that is then broken down to provide chemical energy for the body.

Thus, in many ways, fat is "burned" to produce chemical energy.

And like all fuels, when burned, there are bi-products left over. CO2 is a common bi-product and is probably where the idea comes that you can breath yourself thin (you can't).

But the basic, simple answer is that fat becomes something else. It doesn't stay 'fat'. It's broken apart just like carbs and proteins are.

For the record, it is NOT excreted in your poop... any fat that's in your feces was never digested in the first place. It did not enter your body and then leave again.

It is also NOT excreted in your urine... at least not as fat. Tiny bits and pieces may be excreted in the form of sodium bicarbonate.... but not all carbon in sodium bicarbonate comes from fat, so it is incorrect to say that you pee out fat.

Smarty pants.

Shollin243

So I've been trying to increase my bowel movements for nothing?

tinamina78

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/body-fat/AN01327

That's what I was gonna say too!! Here's the article for those who don't want to click the link:

Question
Body fat: What happens to lost fat?
When you lose weight, where does the lost body fat go?
Answer
from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.

To understand the answer, it helps to remember that fat is basically stored energy. Your body converts fat to usable energy for your muscles and other tissues through a series of complex metabolic processes. This causes your fat cells to shrink.

These metabolic activities also generate heat, which helps maintain your body temperature, and waste products. These waste products — water and carbon dioxide — are excreted in your urine and sweat or exhaled from your lungs.

This thread has had me giggling quite a bit too... I LOVE the idea of willing my fat to the people I dislike... and the idea that it goes to Narnia :laugh:

mes1119

It doesn't go anywhere. Fat cells just shrink.

yea but how do they shrink? like I would assume that the fat inside these cells leaves causing them to shrink. where does such fat go???

bcattoes

hell, where it belongs

:laugh: Love this

DaBossLady24

where all of my chapsticks I lose end up... missing near the depths of hell. :laugh:

Mercenary1914

Question
Body fat: What happens to lost fat?
When you lose weight, where does the lost body fat go?
Answer
from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.
To understand the answer, it helps to remember that fat is basically stored energy. Your body converts fat to usable energy for your muscles and other tissues through a series of complex metabolic processes. This causes your fat cells to shrink.

These metabolic activities also generate heat, which helps maintain your body temperature, and waste products. These waste products — water and carbon dioxide — are excreted in your urine and sweat or exhaled from your lungs.



http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/body-fat/AN01327

Mercenary1914

Question
Body fat: What happens to lost fat?
When you lose weight, where does the lost body fat go?
Answer
from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.
To understand the answer, it helps to remember that fat is basically stored energy. Your body converts fat to usable energy for your muscles and other tissues through a series of complex metabolic processes. This causes your fat cells to shrink.

These metabolic activities also generate heat, which helps maintain your body temperature, and waste products. These waste products — water and carbon dioxide — are excreted in your urine and sweat or exhaled from your lungs.



http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/body-fat/AN01327

didn't noticed someone else posted this already

morgansmom02

Didn't I read that you pee it out???