Where Fat Actually Goes When You Lose Weight
Where Fat Actually Goes When You Lose Weight?
Losing fat can be mind boggling. Where does it go? How does it get ‘lost’? Does it even completely go?
Over many years the theory has been that fat is converted into muscle or turned into energy and ‘burnt’ through exercise. However according to a study by UNSW Australia, fat is actually breathed out as carbon dioxide.
“The correct answer is that most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide. It goes into thin air,” says lead author of the paper Ruben Meerman, a physicist and TV presenter.
Published in the British Medical Journal, the study revealed that 10kg of fat turns into 8.4kg of carbon dioxide (which we exhale), and 1.6kg of water – which we then excrete through our urine, tears, sweat and other bodily fluids.
But don’t go giving up your gym membership just yet.
Simply breathing at a rapid pace won’t help you lose fat, and it could make you hyperventilate.
Your body has to go through a metabolic process before it can expel fat loss – think plenty of exercise and good nutrition. Then breathe.