When you lose WEIGHT, where does it go?
By prasad1961
@prasad1961 (5597)
India
December 19, 2006 8:40am CST
All fats, whether solid or liquid, exist in chemical form as triglycerides, which consist of a glycerol molecule and three fatty acid chains. Each triglyceride macromolecule’s appearance is similar to the letter E —with the glycerol being the vertical line and the fatty acids as the three horizontal lines. Many of these triglycerides are stored as droplets of oil within the fat cells that make up the fat tissue located throughout the body. When we trimming or exercise the fat will turn in to triglycerides and will absorb by the body. But body loses its weight. How?
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@spangles94 (546)
• United States
19 Dec 06
well i wish i could make sense of what ya just said but ill try LOL, hmm i know that when you excercise you need energy and you burn fat and such to get that energy , now like with atkins like im on since i dont eat carbs or sugar like most to get energy my body takes energy from the fat i have in my body as far as i know .... im assuming that we also loose some of the weight thru sweat and such basicly our body getting rid of toxins in our body ... bottom line the more fat ya burn the leaner you get and you build more muscle than fat
~M~
@prasad1961 (5597)
• India
20 Dec 06
When I build muscle, how can I lose weight? I think some where you gone wrong.
@skipper149 (89)
• Singapore
21 Dec 06
I don't think spangles said you'll lose weight by building muscle. What happens is muscle is more metabolically active than fat. So if you have more muscle, your metabolism will be higher so you'll burn more energy, and as a result, you will lose more fat.
@Kaorin (756)
• Australia
20 Dec 06
Actually, fat and muscle are two different things, and one does not convert to the other. Sure, excercising will work and tone your muscles, while shedding yourself of excess fat, but it won't convert your fat to muscle. YOu'll just see the muscle more because there will be less fat.
Also, muscle weighs A LOT more than fat, not the opposite.
@hopeandgrace427 (173)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Dr. Oz on Oprah explained that very question. He said that the fat stored in fat cells just melts away, but leaves the cells there in the body. So if you became really fat, you would have a lot of fat cells just waiting to get fat again. Compared to someone who never got fat, doesn't have that many fat cells. I'm sure his book explains it better than I did.
@kellahinx (370)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Yes but we actually lose the weight because your breaks down the fat storage because it needs more energy. It kind of like you body is digesting the fatty foods it ate years ago. Your body expends the energy in whatever exercise you are doing and excess gets excreted (in the for of sweat, urine, etc.
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@xmanofsteel69 (458)
• Canada
19 Dec 06
We lose weight because as the body absorbs the triglycerides, it uses the engery stored within it. After abosorbing all of the energy available in those sources, the body descretes the left overs in multiple forms (urine, fecies, etc..).
@GwilledWabbit (48)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Yeah, this sounds right. We gain fat because we take in too much. Meaning the fat we see on the outside is just stored parts of food that we ate too much of.
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@vipul20044 (5793)
• India
19 Dec 06
You burn your fats it isnt that it disappears
All that you sweat out when you workout is your fat and water content
That is what i knew but then i will surely thank you for the scientific explaination
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@Sorathian (4329)
• Pakistan
19 Dec 06
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.
@ecpunzalan (401)
• Philippines
19 Dec 06
bare with me...well the fat gets burned and you sweat out... if you would actually weight that you will know the difference... some goes out on our poo... some weight lossers poo more and urinate more than a regualr person...
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@rajiv_de_champ (70)
• India
19 Dec 06
well buddy! i guess it all gets melted and come out in many forms such as sweat,urine etc .! but only some part of it is melted and some part still stays in our body tissues i guess
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• Canada
19 Dec 06
All the fat we lose either goes to your butt or to ur thighs but most ppl actually do lose the weight and can keep it off but from wat i see the weight i have lost it went to my butt and made it nice and perfect ppl tell me i have a nice ghetto booty....LOL
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@pennycan2 (251)
• United States
19 Dec 06
when you body begins to metabolize fat you begin a process called ketosis (probably misspelled) in which the fat breakes down and is passed in urine. you can see this when you go it looks like oily pee for lack of better explanation.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Ketosis is actually an unhealthy state, in which muscle proteins are burnt as energy instead of fat. Ketosis is a state in which protein is "spilt" in the urine, and is the first step in a very dangerous and life threatening state called "acidosis".
@pennycan2 (251)
• United States
19 Dec 06
wikipedia:
Ketosis should not be confused with ketoacidosis, which is severe ketosis causing the pH of the blood to drop below 7.2. Ketoacidosis is a medical condition usually caused by diabetes and accompanied by dehydration, hyperglycemia, ketonuria and increased levels of glucagon. The high glucagon, low insulin serum levels signals the body to produce more glucose via gluconeogenesis, glycogenolysis and ketogenesis. High levels of glucose causes the failure of tubular reabsorption in the kidneys, causing water to leak into the tubules in a process called osmotic diuresis, causing dehydration and further exacerbating the acidosis.
@jaekumar (55)
• India
21 Dec 06
What happens to electricity wen it passes thru the circuits in ur tv or comp ....???!?!?!?!?!?!?!
It is converted into diff forms of energy ..
Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed but can be changed from one form to another!
same way fats chnges into triglycerides and it squeezes out all the water from ur body .....water has a lotta weight ..
