Where does fat go?

Shollin243
Shollin243 Posts: 30 Member
edited December 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I've always been curious where fat goes when you lose it?
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  • gpstrucker
    gpstrucker Posts: 930 Member
    I think mine goes to Cleveland.
  • kiminikimkim
    kiminikimkim Posts: 746 Member
    It doesn't go anywhere. Fat cells just shrink.
  • Shollin243
    Shollin243 Posts: 30 Member
    I think mine goes to Cleveland.

    I deposited some fat there once in the form of a Cleveland steamer.
  • SuffolkSally
    SuffolkSally Posts: 964 Member
    I think mine goes to Cleveland.

    Why Cleveland - are they specially in need of some extra there?
  • runfatmanrun
    runfatmanrun Posts: 1,090 Member
    Down the crapper.
  • lambchop1042
    lambchop1042 Posts: 102 Member
    I'm not expert but it seems to me since Fat is stored energy, when you "burn" fat it means your body is just using it's stored energy. So it uses it in the same sense as when you eat energy-- it digests it, gets the usual stuff from it, transfers the useful stuff to your blood stream, and "disposes" of the rest. That's how I think of it anyway :-)
  • roachhaley
    roachhaley Posts: 978 Member
    hell, where it belongs
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    Probably the same place all my socks go once I put them in the dryer. I'm assuming Narnia.
  • phillieschic
    phillieschic Posts: 615
    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:
  • mes1119
    mes1119 Posts: 1,082 Member
    O my god I ask this question continuously.
  • misscristie
    misscristie Posts: 643 Member
    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.
  • kellybean14
    kellybean14 Posts: 237 Member
    It doesn't go anywhere. Fat cells just shrink.

    ah HA! makes total sense. that's really amazing to think about.
  • Kirkajuice
    Kirkajuice Posts: 311 Member
    I always thought it came out of the fat cell and was burned for energy, like heat. Maybe I'm wrong, but when I'm melting during a workout that's what I think of :laugh:
  • MzCongeniality70
    MzCongeniality70 Posts: 352 Member
    I will it to the people around me so that I look better. :laugh:

    Seriously though, I have wondered that myself.
  • sarapeek
    sarapeek Posts: 9 Member
    You literally breathe it out. The molecules that make up fat are broken down into water and carbon, which becomes part of the CO2 that you exhale. (Of course I'm leaving out lots of complexity, but that's the basic idea.)
  • mikethom
    mikethom Posts: 183 Member
    I have several friends that claim that it has gone to them :-)
  • nigel061
    nigel061 Posts: 109
    Utilized as fuel and broken down and then released from the body as water, and carbon dioxide in your breath I believe.
  • tomomatic
    tomomatic Posts: 1,794 Member
    If you eat too much of it and it's not absorbed, it goes out the pooper.
  • ImKindOfABigDeal40
    ImKindOfABigDeal40 Posts: 807 Member
    I've always been curious where fat goes when you lose it?
    Fat Hell!
  • Bronx_Montgomery
    Bronx_Montgomery Posts: 2,284 Member
    I think I poop mine out....hence why im in the can 3-6 times a day
  • KyleB65
    KyleB65 Posts: 1,196 Member
    Pretty sure I rendered most mine out through sweating!

    What ever was left was flushed!

    :laugh:
  • giselle9938
    giselle9938 Posts: 194 Member
    hell, where it belongs

    lol
  • DalexD
    DalexD Posts: 236 Member
    I think I poop mine out....hence why im in the can 3-6 times a day

    Thanks for the update :laugh:
  • Kirkajuice
    Kirkajuice Posts: 311 Member
    You literally breathe it out. The molecules that make up fat are broken down into water and carbon, which becomes part of the CO2 that you exhale. (Of course I'm leaving out lots of complexity, but that's the basic idea.)

    Is that where the ridiculous "breathe yourself to thinness" ideas have come from? My Mum has told me that if I just breathe properly then I'll never have to lose weight, it's very odd.
  • militarydreams
    militarydreams Posts: 198 Member
    Energy and matter don't dissapear of course, they just change forms. Fat is used by the body as energy so I'd say the conversion is something similar to potiential -> kinetic, kinda like a really complex coiled spring. Everything else would just get filtered out of the blood and excreted in one form or another. Just a best guess though.

    Edit: just noticed someone made a good point about heat too, thermal energy is most definately a biproduct of the bodies energy cycle, in fact it's in the definition of a calorie :tongue:
  • harlanJEN
    harlanJEN Posts: 1,089 Member
    Utilized as fuel and broken down and then released from the body as water, and carbon dioxide in your breath I believe.
  • saraht131
    saraht131 Posts: 86
    My fiancé's ex's *kitten*. (I hope)
  • Muscles_Curves
    Muscles_Curves Posts: 385 Member
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • chloeelebeir
    chloeelebeir Posts: 130
    I've heard the fat cells just shrink
  • terri0527
    terri0527 Posts: 678 Member
    I always thought it came out of the fat cell and was burned for energy, like heat. Maybe I'm wrong, but when I'm melting during a workout that's what I think of :laugh:

    :laugh: this made me think of the wicked witch on the wizard of oz....I'm meeellllting:bigsmile:
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