So scientifically, when does the fat come off?

Losingthedamnweight
Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
edited November 8 in Health and Weight Loss
I need a science nerd up in here! When it hits 11:59pm and i just completed my day at a 1000 calorie deficit, did that 1000 calories worth of weight already come off by the end of the day? Or is there a delayed response and that 1000 calories comes off gradually over the next day or two? Would be great if my body was in sync with the time on my iphone
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  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited December 2014
    Fat loss is water weight.

    Plus carbon dioxide.
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    Mine is mostly on Tuesday.
  • Dave198lbs
    Dave198lbs Posts: 8,810 Member
    it is a fact that over thinking specifics causes significant psychosis. Usually peaking at 11:59 p.m. unless you have passed out from drinking 1000 calories of Jim Beam.
  • kailibertsch
    kailibertsch Posts: 139 Member
    Technically you don't "lose" anything except for the water I believe. I read somewhere that it is all just fat cells that expand when you gain weight, and shrink when you lose weight. That's why when some people get liposuction they no longer gain weight in those specific areas, because it is sucking out the fat cells, therefore they are not there to expand when you gain.
  • ShrinkinMel
    ShrinkinMel Posts: 982 Member
    A lot of so called experts I've read articles from say it happens during sleep. So get that 8 hours and let your body work and process those hormones.
  • paultucker1007
    paultucker1007 Posts: 37 Member
    It comes off at midnight exactly. If you happen to fly over the international date line whilst in deficit, you've wasted that day.
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  • Aemely
    Aemely Posts: 694 Member
    970Mikaela1 wrote: »
    Mine is mostly on Tuesday.

    Ha-ha! :p

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  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    paultucker1007 wrote: »
    It comes off at midnight exactly. If you happen to fly over the international date line whilst in deficit, you've wasted that day.

    But what about daylight savings time man?! Do i get extra credit some times and lose more?!
  • NoelFigart1
    NoelFigart1 Posts: 1,276 Member
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    Dawn take you all and be stone to you.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    When does the fuel pump in your car suck up the gas? When it needs it.
  • paultucker1007
    paultucker1007 Posts: 37 Member
    Well, if the clocks go forward, you lose a bit less on that day, and a bit more the following day. And vice versa for when they go back. Obviously.
  • Snow3y
    Snow3y Posts: 1,412 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Fat loss is water weight.

    Plus carbon dioxide.

    wut
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    TyronnePanaino wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Fat loss is water weight.

    Plus carbon dioxide.

    wut
    No, WAT.
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    TyronnePanaino wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Fat loss is water weight.

    Plus carbon dioxide.

    wut
    No, WAT.

    No. Whaaaaaaat
  • astrose00
    astrose00 Posts: 754 Member
    Ask for science and get anything but... you guys are hilarious
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    TyronnePanaino wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Fat loss is water weight.

    Plus carbon dioxide.

    wut

    The end products of fat metabolization are water and carbon dioxide. When you lose the water and C02, you've lost the fat weight.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Aemely wrote: »
    970Mikaela1 wrote: »
    Mine is mostly on Tuesday.

    Ha-ha! :p

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  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Losingthedamnweight wrote: »
    paultucker1007 wrote: »
    It comes off at midnight exactly. If you happen to fly over the international date line whilst in deficit, you've wasted that day.

    But what about daylight savings time man?! Do i get extra credit some times and lose more?!

    Saskatchewan doesn't do daylight savings. Poor Saskatchewanians.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    from what I hear the weight loss fairy comes between 12am and 4am and verifies your deficit and then confirms your weight loss....
  • qb63
    qb63 Posts: 88 Member
    paultucker1007 wrote: »
    It comes off at midnight exactly. If you happen to fly over the international date line whilst in deficit, you've wasted that day.

    Awww, bummer! :s
  • fearlessleader104
    fearlessleader104 Posts: 723 Member
    Now, it's coming off now! !!
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    astrose00 wrote: »
    Ask for science and get anything but... you guys are hilarious

    At this point, i'm ok with it. I'm sure if someone tried to genuinely answer the question, they would get shunned
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    ana3067 wrote: »
    Aemely wrote: »
    970Mikaela1 wrote: »
    Mine is mostly on Tuesday.

    Ha-ha! :p

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    Haha! I wish my fat was that cute!

  • Aemely
    Aemely Posts: 694 Member
    Here is a page with cross-sections. Cross-sections = Science. :confounded:

    When we lose weight, where does the lost weight go?
  • Burt_Huttz
    Burt_Huttz Posts: 1,612 Member
    You seek a simple answer to a complex question:
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  • FromHereOnOut
    FromHereOnOut Posts: 3,237 Member
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    TyronnePanaino wrote: »
    Mr_Knight wrote: »
    Fat loss is water weight.

    Plus carbon dioxide.

    wut
    When you lose the water and C02, you've lost the fat weight.

    I think I've got about 20lbs of CO2 on me right now. :)

  • hamoncan
    hamoncan Posts: 148 Member
    Not a science nerd - just trying a purely speculative common sense analysis - you eat at a calorie deficit so that you are taking in less "food fuel" than your body is burning - during the day when your are eating regularly you are burning your food fuel - but at night you take in none - so for some period of time in your last hours of sleep and the time before breakfast you have burned off all of yesterday food fuel and your body has to convert body mass to fuel you through your deficit until you begin taking in calories at breakfast

    So, I'd say you are probably burning off mass for an hour or two before breakfast.

    (But I could be totally wrong)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Your body is constantly either storing or oxidizing fat...
  • mbcaldwell123
    mbcaldwell123 Posts: 79 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    from what I hear the weight loss fairy comes between 12am and 4am and verifies your deficit and then confirms your weight loss....


    I'm going to catch that "B" and MAKE her do her freaking job that she's been slacking on lately!!!!!!!!
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