Chai

So thank you everyone for your help with the question of where does fat actually go.  Just didn’t make sense to me that something would turn into nothing (or fat loss really would be a magical thing!), but now I understand!

From the Mayo Clinic:

 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/body-fat/AN01327

When you consume fewer calories than your body needs, your body turns to fat for energy. Your fat cells (triglycerides) provide the fuel for this energy.

Through a series of complex metabolic processes, triglycerides are broken down into two different components — glycerol and fatty acids — which are absorbed into your liver, kidney and muscle. Here, these components are further broken down by chemical processes that ultimately produce energy for your body.

The heat generated through these activities is used to help maintain your body temperature. The waste products that result are water and carbon dioxide. You excrete water primarily in urine and sweat and carbon dioxide in air exhaled from your lungs.

So it may not exactly come out the tailpipe, so to speak, but it’s burned and the leftovers are tossed out with the trash thru some method.  NOW it makes sense!

Moving on to other things…spring is here in Canada!  FINALLY!   We’ll get to do our planting this weekend (I’ve learned never to plant before the may long weekend because the frost will come and devour what you’ve planted)…our grass is mowed, everything is set up and ready to go….

And I’m going to take my girls on the park trails today with their bikes and have a picnic!  Yay for spring!! 

Okay.  Dumb question from the Queen of dumb questions.  Serioulsy, I ask the most inane questions…but I honestly wonder about these things….so here goes another one for the hall of fame.

 Where does the fat go?

I know you “lose” weight…but where does it go?  And I’m not be facetious here…I’m really curious as to what happens to it.  I thought maybe someone here might know.  Is it left behind in the bathroom?  Does it come out in sweat?  A little hard for me to believe that I sweat fat out my pores, but hey, if that’s it, then okay.  When we “burn” fat….where does it go?  Is it like gas for the car and you put a whole bunch in (aka the extra bits of me on my rear), and the car goes vrrooooom, and the gas dissapears…except for what comes out the tail pipe? (I won’t even go there, don’t worry! :)  )

Something I’ve always wondered about but never asked.  So…now I’m asking.  :)  Any answers?  What happens to the fat?  How do we lost parts of ourselves and not even see them go? 

Okay, I’m BACK!  FINALLY!  I had a great little break from reality, a nice vacation with my husband….and now I’m back into my normal life.  It’s amazing how much you miss your routine when you’re not in it.  I missed checking in with everything and reading the blogs.  I missed my exercise routine; trying to do a little here and a little there was just not doing it for me.  Oddly enough, I missed eating healthy.  I missed how  felt from exercising and eating right.  I never knew how great it was making me feel, how much it lifted my self esteem, until I took a break from it all.  It made me happy with myself, and once I stopped it all…I went back to feeling crappy about me and the way I look and just generally unhappy with me.  Who knew it made that much difference in my emotions??  WOW!  Not even the results, just doing the exercise and eating right itself made me feel good.  Never thought I’d ever reach THAT point!  Great motivator to keep going though!

I kinda gave myself a get out of jail free card with my eating over the course of my vacation, which amounted to five days of horrible eating.  And oddly enough, the get out of jail free card didn’t work!!  Oh no, I landed right in that cell where they handed me back a whole slew of the pounds I’d lost.  So I’ve ripped up my fake card, and I’ve broken out of the cell, and I’m back in the game now.  Hopefully heading towards Boardwalk…but I’d settle for Marvin Gardens…LOL!

 In any event, I am now back to normal life.  At least, life as normal as it gets around me!! LOL!  Which isn’t to say much, but hey, it’s all good, right? 

I have a computer that works, and a schedule that, hopefully, works and should allow me to check in with the blogs and and buddies more regularly, while also keeping up with my exercise and while keeping up with my, apparently, never ending spring cleaning and the quest for organization.  I swear,  it never ends.  I finish one room, do another, and the first has gone to pot!! lol!  Keeps me on my toes though.   And cleaning burns calories and keeps me from eating….so, again I say…

It’s all good, right?

PS It feels great to get back to journalling my journey and reminding myself what I’m doing here…I’ve really missed this!!