Is it possible to actually get rid of fat?

Question

Thigh fat, belly fat, etc.

Is it possible to actually shed it off with exercise? Because I heard that it is only water weight that you burn and muscle you gain when you exercise. How can I get rid of body fat?

Answer 1

Yes and no.

Your body never loses fat cells, but they do get smaller. When you diet and exercise (cardio) you burn fat for energy, and the fat comes from the fat cells. Those fat cells, however, still exist – the cells themselves are not burned, only the fat inside them. So these cells reduce in size, and you get smaller. The body can, however, create new fat cells if the amount of fat in your body exceeds the capacity of the existing cells. Let’s say that you have 1,000,000 fat cells in y our body when you graduate college and are in good shape. These cells are all over – in your arms, legs, forehead, around your heart, lungs, spleen… everywhere. As you sit at your desk at your new job eating potato chips, going for fast food at lunch every day, your body starts to store this fat in all of your fat cells. Your chin, face, thighs, and everywhere else. When these cells become “full”, your body starts creating new ones.

So now let’s say that you’re 35 years old and you now have 2,000,000 fat cells. Without liposuction or surgery, you’re always going to have 2,000,000 fat cells, which is twice the number that you had when you graduated college (this is hypothetical, remember). You can shrink them, but you can never reduce that number.

When you lift weights (heavy weights) your body responds by building the muscles stronger. Stronger muscles require more energy to exist, so you naturally burn more calories just sitting around.

When you exercise without enough calories in your system, your body can start to burn muscles for energy – this is what happens when your body believes it is starving, which is caused by either real starvation, or by a crash diet in which you eat 2 grapes and a cracker every day for a week.

So – to lose size (and fat) you should lift weights, do cardio exercise, and eat a healthy diet.

Hopefully this helps!

Answer 2

I did think that it might be possible to actually get rid of fat

Answer 3

yes to actually get rid of fat

Answer 4

Yes you can get rid of fat.

What type, intensity, and duration of exercise dictates what the energy source will be.

For example:

If you are sprinting, that is utlizing carbohydrates as the energy source.

Long duration, low intensity (marathon runners for example) is the optimum way to exercise to get rid of fat. Take a look at a marathon's runner's body and then a sprinter's body. Sprinters have more muscles mass but are bulker. (Type II Muscle Fibers mostly utilized). Marathon runners have leaner bodies with less body fat as well as being overall more slender (Type 1A Muscle fiber mostly used).

Stan: Contrary to what you may believe the number of fat cells is pre-determined and the only people who actually increase the number of fat cells are severly obese individuals.

Answer 5

Exercise and eat right.
Burn off more calories than you take in.

The fat cells can be emptied, buy they are only slowly reabsorbed (if ever). That's why it's so easy to put weight back on quickly.

Losing water weight is just a faddish way of saying you're getting dehydrated. Water weighs 8.3 pounds per gallon and I've lost as much as a gallon of water working outside on a hot day. Getting dehydrated is *not* the way to make a long term change in your body mass.

Answer 6

The only way to "get rid of fat" is to have lipsuction.

You can only shrink your fat cells through diet and exercise. When you get fat, your fat cells expand & when you lose weight your fat cells shrink.

However years of yo-yo dieting will cause the fat cells to expand easier than gaining weight for the first time.

If you don't believe me, go to this site, or do the research on your own. But don't believe those that say you can get rid of fat through diet and exercise. Liposuction is the only way to get rid of fat forever.

Answer 7

This is kind of a trick question. Regular strenuous exercise, does result in the reduction of fat, provided that you do not just replace that fat by eating a great deal. But you may not actually lose fat cells (called adipocytes). What probably happens is that you lose the contents of the fat cells as this stored energy (fat) is metabolized during exercise.

The idea that you burn only "water weight" is preposterous. Water is not a fuel for muscle metabolism, it is an end product of it.

The basic principles of weight loss are really very simple:
• More calories burned than eaten = weight loss
• Fewer calories eaten than burned = weight loss

The laws of physics (thermodynamics) dictate that there is only one way to lose weight: OVER TIME, YOU MUST BURN MORE CALORIES THAN YOU EAT. This is an inescapable Law of Nature.

Give it a try.

Answer 8

if mathematic isn't an opinion then to actually get rid of fat

Answer 9

When you're performing aerobic exercise, your body is using some of the oxygen to burn fat for energy, so yes, you can eliminate fat. Water weight is lost through sweat, and being hydrated is essential for supporting your metabolism during exercise and recovery.

Answer 10

Cut bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and lift weights, do squats. Weight training will help burn the fat off your stomach - especially, and I really hate it, a stepping machine for half an hour.