Fat Loss: When we burn the fat, where does it go?

Personal Training, where does the fat go

When we lose weight, where does the fat go?

We talk about burning off fat, and it does burn in a way, going through a complex biochemical process. But mass can't be created or destroyed, so the atoms that made the triglycerides that plumped up the love handles have got to be somewhere.

C55H104O6+78O2 --> 55CO2+52H2O+energy

This chemical formula, which describes what happens when you burn a molecule of triglyceride, the predominant fat in a human body: C55H104O6+78O2 --> 55CO2+52H2O+energy. If you remember your high school chemistry ( yeah I don’t either), you've already figured out that when you metabolize fat you end up with carbon dioxide, water and energy.

How much and where?

Oxidizing 10 kilos of human fat requires inhaling 29 kilos of oxygen to produce 28 kilos of carbon dioxide and 11 kilos of water. The proportion of mass that ends up as CO2 versus H2O — 84 percent compared to 16 percent. Carbon dioxide is a common gas in the atmosphere, so it's pretty obvious where it would go.

SO YES, WE EXHALE LOST FAT .....

The take-away.
Exhale more CO2, and you'll lose more weight — especially if you're exhaling more frequently because you're running. The relatively small amount of water produced by fat metabolism could be disposed of through urine, sweat or other bodily fluids.

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