When you lose weight, WHERE DOES IT GO?

Question

Let's say someone lost 100 pounds... where IS that 100 pounds of weight?

Answer 1

Well, we're still trying to find it... that's why it's lost. :)

No, really, good question. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, so it's got to leave in some form or another.

Answer 2

Do you know that all the fat cells that you will ever have are already in place on your body by the time you hit puberty? That means that if you were a fat kid, you stand a very good chance of never being able to stay thin as an adult, unless you undergo liposuction (which is vacuuming out some of your fat cells).

So when you lose weight, first the newer white fat melts away and is expelled from your body in your stool and urine. This leaves you with the next level of older harder yellow fat. It takes time for this fat to melt, because it has much more chemical changes to go through to reach the liquid stage. This is why when you are dieting you reach plateaus where no matter what you do you can't seem to lose weight for a month or more. But if you stick to your regime, 10 or 20 lbs just seems to melt right off all of a sudden. Then there is the brown fat. This is the long term fat that has been in our bodies since we were kids. The stuff that keeps our organs cushioned and helps our bodies regulate our temperatures. It takes a long, LONG time for the chemical changes to happen to turn this fat into a liquid that can be flushed out of the body. And we don't ever want to lose ALL of it. That's why losing 100 lbs can take a long time. The longer the fat has been on the body, the harder it is to get rid of.

But losing all that weight doesn't mean we lose those fat cells. They are still there, encouraging us to over eat so they can be filled. And they are there unless and until we have them vacuumed out using liposuction.

And the answer to your question would be: down the toilet, one way or another!

Answer 3

Your body uses up the stored energy. You eat less than you require to run your body for a day and you have to dip into the stored fats to keep things going. You don't pee it out or sweat it out. It gets used in the process of daily living. If living for a day uses up 2500 calories and you only take in 1500, the other 1000 calories comes from the stored fat. It takes 3500 calories used up to = a pound lost.

Answer 4

Fat is only lost when it is used. The entire purpose of fat is to preserve heat in the body, in some cases, and be an extra source of energy when your supplies are low. When you lose wieght, your using more energy than you bloodstream and currently digesting food can provide. That means the fat all around your body is tapped into to fuel the cells to continue working.

That's why the most affective diets follow the premise of use more engery than your taking in. Whether that be just eating less, or exercising more.

Answer 5

If you lose weight then your body has basically turned it into energy and used it up. Like how a car uses gas.

Answer 6

i was wondering that the other day..
like those food comercials, that make you lsoe weight in a month or somethin, then what happens to all that extra skin?

i dont understand it.lol

Answer 7

Dont you basically pee it out or sweat it out? Like over time? Thats what I thought?

Answer 8

It melts away in in body waste.

Answer 9

you burn it up. it's like when you light something on fire it disappears, right? it's the same principle only with different players.

Answer 10

the natural way. from yr body to the toilet lol