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When is a pound lost and where does it go?

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  • Posts: 999 Member
    When I was losing all might weight it appeared my dong got bigger. So I'm gonna say it goes there... :laugh:
  • Posts: 64 Member
    I choose to answer the thread topic, not the question...

    Typically it is lost when it's mommy stops paying attention to it in the department store and wanders off only to be found by security and turned into social services. After 10 days it is put down if it's owner doesn't claim it.
  • Posts: 17,857 Member
    Like a lot of others, this is my new favorite thread. But not for the same reasons.

    My reason is because it proves my theory that "the stupidest people in the world are the ones who think everyone else is stupid.

    Let me explain. There are 10 pages (and counting!!) in this thread and roughly 2/3rds are ragging on this post:

    Then along comes this guy:

    Who basically says she, and her Dr., are very probably correct, meaning all of the people who who have been poking fun at her, are doing so in error, because of their own lack of knowledge.

    Now, don't get me wrong, I am not saying anyone who posted on this thread is stupid (although there is a good chance some of us are). It's just that a little open mindedness can go a long way. When someone puts some information out there that you don't agree with, if you ask respectful questions, rather than just piling on with ridicule, YOU might just learn something.

    I'll get off my soapbox now and everyone can continue.
    The second post wasn't 100% correct (what you burn does not come out as feces) nor did it say white stuff in her pee is chicken fat.

    When you metabolize fat, the atoms that make up the fat molecule (along with oxygen atoms from the air you breathe) are rearranged to produce new molecules (CO2 and H2O) which then leave your body as 'air' and 'water.' CO2 goes through your bloodstream to your lungs and is exhaled. Water can be lost through breathing, sweating, urinating. But it doesn't become feces.

    The weight itself is not 'turned into energy.' It's more like a rock sitting at the top of the hill. When the rock rolls down the hill, it isn't turned into energy in whole or in part. It simply went from a state of higher potential to a state of lower potential. That is more like what happens to the atoms in fat molecules when you 'burn' them. Some of that difference in potential (which is the part we think of as energy) is captured by the body to do work.
  • Posts: 41,865 Member

    This is a really good analogy... CO2 and H2O; the products of combustion. Fat is fuel just like gas.

    So when I fart...am I burning more gas?

    LOL...this is a classic zombie thread....
  • Posts: 41 Member
    well you can stay at maintainance at burn 500 cals a day n you will lose a pound every week.
    2nd ques when you are burning fat look for when thing when you go to toilet to pee you will notice something white in your pee is like chicken fat thats how some of your fat comes out n some as a sweat. because when i did a diet few years back when the white thing came in pee i got scared that its something serious but found out its nothing just fat so a doctor knows best.

    Oh lord. That is vaginal fluid.
  • Posts: 106 Member
    Ah reading this thread made my day!! Thank you for the laughs! :laugh: :drinker:
  • Posts: 281 Member
    The second post wasn't 100% correct (what you burn does not come out as feces) nor did it say white stuff in her pee is chicken fat.

    When you metabolize fat, the atoms that make up the fat molecule (along with oxygen atoms from the air you breathe) are rearranged to produce new molecules (CO2 and H2O) which then leave your body as 'air' and 'water.' CO2 goes through your bloodstream to your lungs and is exhaled. Water can be lost through breathing, sweating, urinating. But it doesn't become feces.

    The weight itself is not 'turned into energy.' It's more like a rock sitting at the top of the hill. When the rock rolls down the hill, it isn't turned into energy in whole or in part. It simply went from a state of higher potential to a state of lower potential. That is more like what happens to the atoms in fat molecules when you 'burn' them. Some of that difference in potential (which is the part we think of as energy) is captured by the body to do work.
    Thank you for the clarification. Great info in both these posts. Does not change my original point though, that the joke is on the people who are poking fun at Sm_4ever17, when in fact she is most probably correct.

    And just for the record, she never said there was chicken fat in her urine, she said "...something white in your pee is like chicken fat". Further proving my theory.
  • Posts: 1,170 Member
    Bump for later
  • Posts: 14 Member
    For me it's not so much who is wrong and who is right. Whatever the answer is, there are som extremely funny mental pictures coming alive in this thread :)
  • Bump for anyone that missed this thread.
  • It goes to the Land of Misfit Pounds

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    lololololol
  • Posts: 3,134 Member
    bump
  • Posts: 982 Member
    if someone had something white in their pee, it might be a tapeworm.
  • Posts: 6,256 Member
    if someone had something white in their pee, it might be a tapeworm.

    No.

    Wrong hole.


    Most likely an STI.
  • Posts: 39,744 Member
    i love this thread.
  • Posts: 6,474 Member
    who cares!
    ITS GONE!
  • I didn't "lose" any fat because I've no intention of ever finding it again. :laugh:
  • Posts: 429 Member
    IN b/c this is so obsurdly ridiculous that it's funny.
  • Posts: 575 Member
    Bump to enjoy later
  • Posts: 187 Member
    It gets burned....set a piece of paper on fire...umm where did the paper go?
  • Posts: 113 Member
    People need to quit saying 'vaginal fluid' - that is all...
  • Posts: 1,728 Member

    This second part of the question sounds ridiculous, I'll admit, but where exactly does that pound of fat go? I get that it's converted into energy but I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that something that occupies a certain space (the pound of fat) can essentially disappear into something which no longer occupies space.

    Ever try leaving a bag of cotton candy out in the hot sun? Poof.....Gone! There's your answer :wink:
  • Posts: 1,126 Member
    Best thread ever.
  • Posts: 187 Member
    :laugh:

    Ever try leaving a bag of cotton candy out in the hot sun? Poof.....Gone! There's your answer :wink:
  • Posts: 120 Member
    bump- just to read some of the answers.
  • Posts: 2,747 Member
    Bump :drinker:
  • Posts: 1,168 Member
    Poor OP had a serious question (for her) and the responses became HILARIOUS!!!!

    Thanks for the laugh posters!!!
  • Posts: 2,616 Member
    Tagging for giggles when I need a switch from moon moon.
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