Where does weight go?

You pee it out!

It attaches itself to the @ss of your greatest enemy :laugh:

Seriously, it is used by our bodies for energy, so it is broken down.

Now I am curious. I have never really thought about it, was just glad to see it go.

my sentiment exactly...

It is lost as CO2 and H2O.

Basically, you breathe most of it out as a waste gas. Some of it leaves as water (not necessarily as urine).

You know, I did this STUPID breath-focused weight loss routine probably about 15 years ago or so and the idea behind it was that a certain kind of breathing pattern coupled with squeezing your muscles tight would "blow" the fat off your body through your exhalations. I couldn't stick with it (I had to do this ridiculous lion-face thing...come on, I can't have been the only one that fell for this one, right?) and decided it was all hooey. How interesting that there was a tiny shred of scientific reasoning behind it!

I'm sorry, but this made me spit water all over my lap. Breath-based weight loss? I thought I had heard all the ridiculous fat-loss fads.

Thank you for sharing!

Well technically you do lose most of your mass through your breath however I doubt hyperventilating will do you any good as you only have so much CO2 to expel so breathing more or faster would just dilute the amount of CO2 you expel per breath.

I think from a quick calculation that you would probably expel something like 1 gram of weight for every inhale + exhale since you breath out more mass than you take in. You are essentially exchanging oxygen (inhale) for CO2 and H2O (exhale). There are of course a lot more components to air but they remain the same in exale and inhale, the ones that change concentration are O2, CO2 and H2O.

Although people probably point to excrement I'd bet that most of your mass is lost through your breath. Think it works out to losing about a pound or so per day from breathing.

Here is the equation of the oxidation of glucose:

Glucose + 6 O2 <=> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O

End result is CO2 and H20.

The CO2 is the result of the citric acid cycle.

One of my favorite biochem cycles EVER! Memorizing it for microbiology -- then teaching it to others -- was my favorite achievement in that class, back when I could describe in more detail what things like acetyl-CoA and guanosine triphosphate are!

It is lost as CO2 and H2O.

Basically, you breathe most of it out as a waste gas. Some of it leaves as water (not necessarily as urine).

You know, I did this STUPID breath-focused weight loss routine probably about 15 years ago or so and the idea behind it was that a certain kind of breathing pattern coupled with squeezing your muscles tight would "blow" the fat off your body through your exhalations. I couldn't stick with it (I had to do this ridiculous lion-face thing...come on, I can't have been the only one that fell for this one, right?) and decided it was all hooey. How interesting that there was a tiny shred of scientific reasoning behind it!

I'm sorry, but this made me spit water all over my lap. Breath-based weight loss? I thought I had heard all the ridiculous fat-loss fads.

Thank you for sharing!

My apologies for the wet lap. I know, I know, I was a complete moron but this woman was like 60 and she had a rockin body! I found out later she had been a spokesperson for some in home exercise machine as well, despite claiming she had lost all her weight by "breathing."

It is lost as CO2 and H2O.

Basically, you breathe most of it out as a waste gas. Some of it leaves as water (not necessarily as urine).

You know, I did this STUPID breath-focused weight loss routine probably about 15 years ago or so and the idea behind it was that a certain kind of breathing pattern coupled with squeezing your muscles tight would "blow" the fat off your body through your exhalations. I couldn't stick with it (I had to do this ridiculous lion-face thing...come on, I can't have been the only one that fell for this one, right?) and decided it was all hooey. How interesting that there was a tiny shred of scientific reasoning behind it!

Hahaha I bought the video years ago! Probably burned lots of cals laughing tho

I think my husband burned more calories laughing at me than I did doing the exercises.

It attaches itself to the @ss of your greatest enemy :laugh:

EFF. YES!!!!!!!!!


My new motivation. Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! :laugh: