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!!