There are many questionable types of diets for weight loss, such as the pumpkin diet, the oat diet, the Dukan diet. It is a fact that shock diets based on a single food or very little, applied without the help of a dietitian or doctor, affect our health rather than losing weight. Most diets without the help of a nutrition expert cause water or muscle loss rather than fat loss.
There is more than one opinion on where the burned fat goes in people who lose weight with a healthy diet by getting all the nutrients they need. While some of us think that it is excreted through feces, some of us may think that it will suddenly come out of the body and disappear. According to science, we have compiled in our content where the fats burned as a result of weight loss go.
First of all, what is a “fat cell”?
Fat cells, which are responsible for many conditions from metabolism to hormones, are not cells that decrease and increase in number, contrary to popular belief. The fat cells in our body develop until our puberty and then remain stable. In other words, when we gain weight, our number of fat cells does not increase, only the capacity of the cells increases.
These cells that make up our adipose tissue are located under the skin in the form of a thick and protective layer. At the same time, it is one of the biggest energy stores that our body uses after our muscle cells in difficult situations such as long-term hunger.
How does the food we eat turn into fat?
A product type that we frequently encounter on market shelves recently and which is said to be harmful by experts: light products with reduced oil. Since the foods called ‘Light’ are produced with reduced fat or fat-free, it is thought to have a weakening effect due to the fact that they do not contain fat, which is seen as the biggest cause of weight gain among the public. Well, is it really possible to lose weight by consuming light products? The answer to this question is no. If a person does not have a disease that makes it difficult to gain weight or make it difficult to lose weight, the biggest reason for gaining weight is seen as refined, that is, foods consisting of sugar and starch, which are not found in nature.
In diets that are applied by reducing fat, weight loss is rapid at first, but then this situation slows down considerably. When you stop dieting and start eating by equating the calories you give with the calories you take in, you will regain the weight you lost. Also, when you eat a low-fat diet, you get hungry more quickly. Since your bowel movements will also slow down, you are more likely to be constipated.
As soon as it is taken into the body by your intestines, any food that cannot be used for energy has the possibility of turning into fat. But of course, some foods are more likely to turn into fat. For example, when refined sugar in foods such as soda or packaged biscuits reaches your liver as a result of the digestive process, it will convert sugar into fat if there is no extreme energy need. Although foods containing complex carbohydrates such as whole-grain bread are classified as healthy, if they are consumed more than necessary, they cannot be used as energy and are converted into sugar and fat by the liver.
How do we gain or lose weight?
Due to the rapid increase in the ready-made food industry, obesity has become one of the most common health problems worldwide. There are many people who are treated for the obesity problem, which brings many chronic diseases, and there are many studies conducted.
Apart from obesity, the state of extreme thinness, which is mostly ignored and encouraged by sectors such as fashion, also has negative effects on human health. Weight gain is mostly determined by the amount of protein in people who are weak or extremely thin as a result of the body mass index calculated according to the height and weight ratio. Increasing muscle mass along with adequate protein intake can provide healthy weight gain.
Although it is seen as foods that provide easy weight gain, we should avoid the consumption of packaged ready-to-eat foods while gaining weight and losing weight. Such foods can cause unhealthy weight gain and only regional lubrication. Apart from this, we should definitely include exercise while gaining or losing weight. Physical activity also prevents the body from changing shape by preventing regional lubrication.
So, where does the burned fat in the body go?
The issue of where the fats that are given as a result of healthy diets go, have come to mind for most people once. Ruben Meerman, a scientist, must have had this question in mind, because after losing 15 kilos, he started to do research on where the burned fat goes.
As a result of his research, he discovered that most of the by-products in the fat burning process are excreted with respiration. Fats, which are excreted by the lungs by turning into carbon dioxide with a large rate of 84%, can also turn into water and be excreted with body fluids such as sweat, urine and breath. In short, the lungs can be considered the main organ in weight loss.
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