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    • Posts: 741 Member
      Body fat breaks down during a series of complex metabolic processes.

      When you burn more calories than you consume, your body uses fat (triglycerides) for energy. This causes your fat cells to shrink. In turn, triglycerides are broken down into two different substances — glycerol and fatty acids — which are absorbed into your liver, kidneys and muscle tissue. From there, the glycerol and fatty acids are further broken down by chemical processes that ultimately produce energy for your body.

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

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

      It's not a stupid question at all, I had the same thought so researched the answer :)

      I also researched it and couldn't have explained it better.
    • Posts: 333 Member
      Well, lots of people 'lose' their fat - so it is probably under beds and down the back of sofas everywhere. Other people 'loose' their weight, so we should all look out for herds of the stuff roaming free!:wink:
    • Posts: 944 Member
      So then the "floating poop contains excess fat" theory is bunk...
    • Posts: 48 Member
      Great post. Thanks!
    • Posts: 1,317 Member
      LOL.. Ok I know this is a strange question please don't judge me for it lmao BUT.. whe we 'burn' fat where does it go? I don't quite get it.. Does it magically turn to water and we sweat it out? does it make it's way into our bowels and is disposed of 'naturally'?

      I just want to know how our body actually gets rid of the fat once it has been burned or what have you.. Please help lol.. and once again I apoligise for the weird question.. just curious.. :)

      Where does the wood go when you have a bonfire? Same place as the fat. It's burned as fuel and heat is given off...
    • Posts: 1,317 Member
      Great thread, I always wondered this too :smile:

      Does the amount of water you drink affect the amount of fat flushed out of you then?

      No.
    • Posts: 42
      I have often wondered that as well. I drink alot of water and I try to run everyday. I have ran for the past few days and I try to do it till I sweat alot, plus I hate "be energized for women" Supplements. I always figured it was disposed of my sweat and bowel movements. lol
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      Excellent thread. Thanks for the info.
    • Posts: 800 Member
      Adipose_Industries_by_Julesdale.jpg

      Thank you! That is EXACTLY what I was thinking!

      The fat *literally* just walks away! :P
    • Posts: 326 Member
      Out the tookus.
    • Posts: 265 Member
      Yes, thanks so much for asking this. I had forgotten this info that I think I once learned in an anatomy class in college. Wow, what a lot of well informed and smarties in this crowd.
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      I'm glad you asked this! I wondered also...
    • Posts: 95 Member
      Out the tookus.

      Cracking me up tonight!

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    • Posts: 67
      Actually, fat is breathed out through cellular respiration!!!
    • Posts: 1,294 Member
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      Same here.

      Just drink water, work out, burn more calories than you consume and the fat is peed out!
      Wait what???? lol
    • Posts: 1,860 Member
      Adipose_Industries_by_Julesdale.jpg

      That God I am not the only one who pictures little adipose babies marching away
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      So a related question: I learned in uni biology that fat cells never disappear (unless you get surgery of course), but what we did not learn is: is having this extra empty fat cells more dangerous than those who don't have them to begin with. Or can you be just as healthy as anyone else if the fat cells are empty? I'm asking because I am sure I have plenty since I was a fat kid.
    • Posts: 8,059 Member
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      So as you can read, you don't magically destroy the cells, but instead kind of empty them out :happy: the fat inside the cells is "burned" (used to make energy through metabolic processes) but not the cells themselves.

      from Livestrong.com
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      This is a bit outdated. They have learned since that the body can create new fat cells if necessary, and that fat cells, if left empty long enough, eventually do die off.
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      I always kinda wondered this myself. Thanks!
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      This is a bit outdated. They have learned since that the body can create new fat cells if necessary, and that fat cells, if left empty long enough, eventually do die off.


      Oh this is good to know :) Thanks.. ... die, fat cells, DIE!!
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      Oh this is good to know :) Thanks.. ... die, fat cells, DIE!!
      If I recall, it's over a year of them being totally empty before they die off. To be honest, you wouldn't notice if it happened or not.
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      Small confession: I'm certainly not lacking in the boob department. But I like 'em! They're the one bit of me that I didn't really want to get smaller!

      My tummy though. That can just go on its merry way any time it likes.

      Exactly!
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