{"id":18697,"date":"2018-05-16T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsgood.vitaminshoppe.com\/?p=18697"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:57:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:57:47","slug":"how-weight-loss-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/how-weight-loss-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does The Fat Go When You Lose Weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully shedding body fat, we\u2019re often too busy basking in sweet satisfaction to question where that fat actually went. Did it transform into muscle? End up in the toilet? Seep out of our pores as sweat?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re suddenly curious (and stumped), don\u2019t worry: A 2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> found that 98 percent of health professionals don\u2019t know where that fat goes either.<\/p>\n<p>Most health experts surveyed assumed that fat we \u2018lose\u2019 is just transformed into heat, hence why we often talk about it as something we \u2018burn off\u2019\u2014but it doesn\u2019t just zap into thin air!<\/p>\n<!-- Shortcode [rr-products] does not match the conditions -->\n<p>Think back to high school chemistry. You probably learned about something called the \u2018law of conservation of matter.\u2019 It means that mass cannot be created or destroyed, so fat can\u2019t just disappear, explains Spencer Nadolsky, M.D., diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and author of <em>The Fat Loss Prescription<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After losing 33 pounds, a physicist-turned-media-personality named Ruben Meerman wanted to get to the bottom of where those pounds actually disappeared to, so he teamed up with lipid (a.k.a. fat) researcher Andrew Brown of the University of New South Wales to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Meerman and Brown\u2019s study, which was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The BMJ<\/em><\/a>, looked at the chemistry of what happens to a triglyceride a.k.a. body fat molecule (it looks like this: C<sub>55<\/sub>H<sub>104<\/sub>O<sub>6<\/sub>+78O<sub>2<\/sub>) when it\u2019s oxidized or broken down to be used for energy. It\u2019s a complicated process, but that process creates two by-products that explain where our fat goes when we lose it: carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) and water (H<sub>2<\/sub>O).<\/p>\n<p><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22693\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/stimulant-free-weight-management\/healthiest-summer-banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?fit=970%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"970,250\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?fit=740%2C191&amp;ssl=1\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22693  lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20626%20161%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"626\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20626%20161%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?w=970&amp;ssl=1 970w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?resize=300%2C77&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?resize=768%2C198&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?resize=272%2C70&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg?resize=740%2C191&amp;ssl=1 740w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/healthiest-summer-banner.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When the researchers measured what happened to 22 pounds-worth of triglycerides \u2018lost,\u2019 they found that about 18.5 pounds-worth of carbon dioxide were exhaled through the lungs, while the rest exited the body as water, whether in sweat, urine, or another bodily fluid. So even though we don\u2019t quite breathe or sweat little fat particles, we <em>do<\/em> excrete the by-products produced when our body breaks down body fat, explains Pennsylvania-based family medicine physician, Rob Danoff, D.O., M.S., F.A.C.O.F.P, F.A.A.F.P.<\/p>\n<p>(Just in case you\u2019re wondering, the carbon dioxide you breathe out doesn\u2019t harm the environment. The researchers encountered that question a lot\u2026)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/cardio-strength-training-weight-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Why Cardio Is NOT The Best Way To Lose Weight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this study doesn\u2019t really give us any new information about how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/c\/healthy-weight\/N-cp99j2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lose weight<\/a>, it does help us understand how losing weight works\u2014and it\u2019s actually pretty fascinating, right?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Diggin\u2019 What\u2019s Good? For more essential health facts, tips, and inspiration, joi<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>n our Facebook communities,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/EatingHealthyVitaminShoppe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eating Healthy<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/StayingFitVitaminShoppe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Staying Fit<\/a>, today!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully shedding body fat, we\u2019re often too busy basking in sweet satisfaction to question where that fat actually went. Did it transform into muscle? End up in the toilet? Seep out of our pores as sweat? If you\u2019re suddenly curious (and stumped), don\u2019t worry: A 2014&nbsp;survey found that 98 percent of health professionals don\u2019t<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminshoppe.com\/blog\/how-weight-loss-works\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where Does The Fat Go When You Lose Weight?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":18700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[437,270,502,1285,149,165],"class_list":["post-18697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-latest","category-weight-loss","tag-body-composition","tag-body-fat","tag-burn-fat","tag-fat-oxidation","tag-lose-weight","tag-metabolism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Does The Fat Go When You Lose Weight? | What\u2019s Good blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After successfully shedding body fat, we\u2019re often too busy basking in sweet satisfaction to question where that fat actually went. 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