Fat Loss Is Just A Breath Away

 
It is easier to grasp the concept of gaining fat than understand the rationale behind fat loss. Explaining it sounds easy right. If you eat more food than your body needs, it gets bigger, you gain weight. This formula can work for building muscle too.
A popular analogy that many of you may have heard goes something like this, “you might as well glue that hot fudge sundae directly on to your hips”. We know that is not exactly how it works but “you get the picture”. The more you eat, the more you weigh.
Based on genetics, we may be able to predict where some of that extra fat might plant itself, the gut, the arms or legs. But once you are carrying extra weight and you lose it, what happens to it? Where does it go?
Some people think it leaves the body with the rest of the body’s waste and is flushed away. Others may tell you that fat is burned and leaves your body via sweat. Many experts will say that fat burned is fat converted to energy and  then “lost” as heat. While there is some truth to all this, these explanations do not fully answer the question, Where does the fat go when it is burned?
In order to answer this, you should know that fat is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. When the bonds that bind these elements are broken fat is burned, http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarbliving/a/Is-Your-Low-Carb-Diet-Giving-You-Bad-Breath.htm.
80% of fat is lost via carbon dioxide (CO2=carbon and oxygen) through breathing.
20% of the fat is lost as water (H20=hydrogen and oxygen) in urine or through sweat.
Thank you Dr. Eric Westman for confirming this scientific fact. He compares fat burning to a burning candle. As the flame heats the candle, it becomes smaller similar to how body fat is burned. Body fat is mostly lost to the air we breathe and slowly we become smaller.
This chemical reaction may also explain why one may get funky breath when fat is burned as the primary source of energy for those following a very low carbohydrare ketogenic diet.
As fat is burned at a much higher more dense rate when in ketosis as compared with fat loss on a low fat diet, the oxidation of fat and ketones released via the breath (a sign of fat burning) will be more prominent. If you need to battle the bad breath beast, you may want to try these suggestions, http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarbliving/a/Is-Your-Low-Carb-Diet-Giving-You-Bad-Breath.htm. Just be assured that keto-breath may resolve itself after a couple of weeks.
So consider yourself in the know now. You now know what actually happens to fat when it is burned. Losing your fat is but a breath away.