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One of my friends who's a marathon runner told me once something rather powerful. We have all these ways of losing weight: you can poop it, sweat it, band i

by keyle 3y ago

One of my friends who's a marathon runner told me once something rather powerful. We have all these ways of losing weight: you can poop it, sweat it, band it off, run it off, lift it off, swim it off, dance it off, on and on. And yet there is only one way to put it on (pointed to his mouth) with these things (showed his hands) Made me think for a while and he made an impact on me. We control our hands. We control what goes in our mouth. I don't mean to be insensitive to people who have real weight issues, I'm talking for the majority of people. We over eat by choice and blame everything else.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
According to the eminently reliable folks at SciShow, the chief way that anyone loses weight is by breathing it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ialLlcdcw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ialLlcdcw
- roelschroeven 3y ago
  Not just according to them. Burning fat and sugars is essentially the same as what happens when you burn wood, or when you car burns its fuel. Where does the wood go as it burns? Gasses, mainly CO2 (though there is some residue left in the form of ashes; much much less than the initial amount of wood). Where does the fuel from your fuel tank go when you drive? Again, gasses out of the exhaust, except for a small amount of soot and other small particulate matter. Weight loss is burning the fat reserves in the body, very similar to burning wood or fuel (but in a more controlled manner; there are no flames). The CO2 leaves your boy through mouth and nose by breathing. Burning sugars is good too: burning it before it gets converted to fat prevents it from contributing to the fat reserves. Pooping makes no difference: poop is simply the non-digestible portion of your food that. It will make its way out of your body, but never contributes to fat and sugar reserves in the body. Neither does sweating, by itself: you loose water, which needs to be replenished (it will result in short term lower weight, until the water is replenished; doesn't help against overweight, but is used in boxing and judo etc. to get in as low a weight class as possible). Again, doesn't affect fat and sugar. But when sweating is the result of physical activity, that physical activity does help loose weight. When doing physical exercise, you'll notice you have to breath deeper and/or faster. That's to provide more O2 to your body, and to release the CO2 that is produced. Even during rest the body continually burns some fat and/or sugar, with the produced CO2 being expelled the same way. So yes, you lose weight by breathing it out. But that breathing out more CO2 has to be triggered by a higher metabolism, such as can be achieved through physical exercise.
broscillator 3y ago
I had that realization with another habit, in first person. My hands can do so many things yet I choose to do this repeatedly. That said, these habits don't usually develop as a choice, they're a sort of shield protecting us from deeper issues, formed during difficult times in our lives. For example, there's girls who gain a lot of weight after being sexually abused, because being seen as less attractive makes them feel safer. This is why it's so difficult to quit, they're complicated and contradictory.

by keyle 3y ago

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

According to the eminently reliable folks at SciShow, the chief way that anyone loses weight is by breathing it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ialLlcdcw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ialLlcdcw

roelschroeven 3y ago
Not just according to them. Burning fat and sugars is essentially the same as what happens when you burn wood, or when you car burns its fuel. Where does the wood go as it burns? Gasses, mainly CO2 (though there is some residue left in the form of ashes; much much less than the initial amount of wood). Where does the fuel from your fuel tank go when you drive? Again, gasses out of the exhaust, except for a small amount of soot and other small particulate matter. Weight loss is burning the fat reserves in the body, very similar to burning wood or fuel (but in a more controlled manner; there are no flames). The CO2 leaves your boy through mouth and nose by breathing. Burning sugars is good too: burning it before it gets converted to fat prevents it from contributing to the fat reserves. Pooping makes no difference: poop is simply the non-digestible portion of your food that. It will make its way out of your body, but never contributes to fat and sugar reserves in the body. Neither does sweating, by itself: you loose water, which needs to be replenished (it will result in short term lower weight, until the water is replenished; doesn't help against overweight, but is used in boxing and judo etc. to get in as low a weight class as possible). Again, doesn't affect fat and sugar. But when sweating is the result of physical activity, that physical activity does help loose weight. When doing physical exercise, you'll notice you have to breath deeper and/or faster. That's to provide more O2 to your body, and to release the CO2 that is produced. Even during rest the body continually burns some fat and/or sugar, with the produced CO2 being expelled the same way. So yes, you lose weight by breathing it out. But that breathing out more CO2 has to be triggered by a higher metabolism, such as can be achieved through physical exercise.

broscillator 3y ago

I had that realization with another habit, in first person. My hands can do so many things yet I choose to do this repeatedly. That said, these habits don't usually develop as a choice, they're a sort of shield protecting us from deeper issues, formed during difficult times in our lives. For example, there's girls who gain a lot of weight after being sexually abused, because being seen as less attractive makes them feel safer. This is why it's so difficult to quit, they're complicated and contradictory.