Where does the fat go when we lose weight?

We often talk about diets and burning fat, but we actually have a lot of misconceptions about weight loss.

This is a process in which the body begins to use stored energy in the form of fat and muscle, but in the absence of sufficient energy in the form of food.

In other words, to get our body to break down stored stores as fat, we simply need to eat smaller amounts of food.

But fat is also mass – what happens to it in the process of losing weight?

Some people believe that fat is converted to energy or heat in violation of the law of conservation of mass.

Others think that the fat somehow disappears, or even that it turns into muscle.

I have been told that you will never lose your fat cells stored as adipose tissue once you have them. But if you exercise, they can shrink.

According to Andrew Brown from the University of New South Wales and Australian TV star – former physicist Ruben Meerman, when we lose weight, we exhale the fat.

That’s what their new calculations show, based on existing knowledge of biochemistry. The results were published in the British Medical Journal this week.

“There is surprising ignorance and confusion about the metabolic process of weight loss,” Brown said in a press release. “

The correct answer is that most of the mass is exhaled into the air as carbon dioxide,” Meirman adds.

Excess carbohydrates and proteins are converted into chemical compounds called triglycerides. They consist of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Triglycerides are then stored in lipid droplets in fat cells.

To lose weight, you’re trying to metabolize those triglycerides, and that means unlocking the carbon that’s stored in fat cells.

Losing 10 kg of human fat requires you to inhale 29 kg of oxygen, producing 28 kg of carbon dioxide and 11 kg of water. This is the metabolic fate of fat.

Andrew Brown and Ruben Meerman calculate the proportion of the mass stored in those 10 kilograms of fat that is released into the air as carbon dioxide and water in your weight loss process.

By tracing the path of these atoms outside the body, the damas found that 8.4 of those kilograms were exhaled carbon dioxide. It turns out that our lungs are the main excretory organ in the weight loss process.

The remaining 1.6 kg is converted into water, which is excreted in urine, feces, sweat, breath, tears and other body fluids.

Does all of this mean that in the post-holiday period, we should all just breathe deeper to blow off the extra pounds? Absolutely not.

Exercise breathing, when more than required by a person’s metabolism, results in hyperventilation, followed by dizziness, palpitations, and loss of consciousness.