Where Does The Fat Go When You Lose Weight?

Where do you think it goes?

More than 50 per cent of the 150 doctors, dieticians and personal trainers who were surveyed thought the fat was converted to energy or heat. I thought it was excreted when you visit the smallest room. It turns out I was wrong!

You breathe it out. It disappears into thin air!

The authors of a study published recently in the British Medical Journal traced every atom of the fat as it is lost from the body. They discovered that for every 10kg of fat which the body loses, 84.Kg are exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs. The remaining 1.6kg becomes water which which may be excreted in urine, faeces, sweat, breath, tears and other bodily fluids, the authors report.

"None of this is obvious to people because the carbon dioxide gas we exhale is invisible", says the study’s lead author Ruben Meerman.

This might lead us to ask if simply breathing more can cause weight loss?

Sadly, the answer is no. Breathing controls the ratio of oxygen to carbon dioxide in the bloodstream. So if you breathe too much (hyperventilate) this balance is upset and this can lead to dizziness, palpitations and loss of consciousness.

However, this could explain why gentle exercise like walking is beneficial to weight loss, as the deeper breathing which occurs here might aid the fat removal process. So, a walk ion the fresh air anyone?

This ground breaking study was performed by Ruben Meerman and Professor Andrew Brown of the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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Eat A Lighter Lunch To Help You Lose Weight

When people are forced to eat a smaller lunch it’s been found that they don’t compensate by eating more at other meals. This can lead to weight loss.

Researchers in the Division of Nutritional Science at Cornell University offered half their 17 volunteers a buffet lunch and the other half were given a choice of one of six, commercially available, portion controlled foods instead of the buffet. All the volunteers were allowed to eat whatever they liked for all the rest of the day’s meals and snacks.

While they were eating the portion controlled lunch, on average the volunteers consumed 250 fewer calories than on days when they didn’t eat a portion controlled lunch, and after 10 days of light lunches they had lost an average of 1.1lb.

“The results confirm that humans do not regulate energy intake with any precision,” said Professor David Levitsky, “Over a year, such a regimen would result in losing at least 25 pounds (11kg).”

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Comment:
This has great implications for weight loss as it's not too hard to restrict the amount that you eat at lunchtime, especially if you take a packed lunch to work.  You could try packing a salad, as most salad ingredients are low in calories.  Lettuce, cucumber, and most raw vegetables areincredibly healthy and can be eaten in almost unlimited quantities, especially if you are restrict the amount of high calorie salad dressings.