I hope all is well and you are enjoying your summer.
Recently, I was asked the question: “When, and if I lose weight where does it go?” I figured that this is a questions many of us has pondered. So, I decided to make it a blog post.
Now, for an in depth answer, we will need to discuss a few complex metabolic processes and some of the following components: glucose, glycogen, glycerol, triglycerides, mitochondria, oxaloacetate, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), etc. Unless, you’re in medical field these words may be uncommon. I’m a strong advocate of keeping it simple.
Cristen Conger of Discovery News does a great job of simplifying the process.
“First, our bodies convert molecules in fat cells to usable forms of energy, thus shrinking the cells. But getting this to happen isn't just about sweat bands and short shorts.
We know that weight loss hinges on burning calories. Calories measure the potential energy in food you eat in the form of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
If our bodies were cars, energy would be the gas to keep everything running. Lounging in front of the television is like cruising the strip, while sprinting around a track is more like drag racing at maximum speeds. In short, more work means more energy.
The body uses some of those calories to digest food. Once the food is broken down into its respective parts of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, it either uses the remaining energy or converts it to fat for storage in fat cells. Fat cells live in adipose tissue, which basically acts like an internal gas station, storing away fuel reserves. To lose weight, you must burn more calories, or energy, than you consume to start using up that fuel reserve. Essentially, you're not ingesting enough calories to fuel your additional exercise, so your body must pull from fat stores.
According to the Law of Conservation of Mass, matter is neither created nor destroyed, but it may alter its form through chemical reaction. Essentially, that tells us that while we lose mass/weight in our bodies by BURNING UP FAT, it does not just disappear. IT SIMPLY CHANGES FORM, LIKE ICE TO WATER, AND LIKE WATER TO STEAM. The water exits the body as in liquid form as urine and perspiration. Or it is removed from the body in gas form as carbon dioxide exhaled from our lungs.”
Continue to “burn those calories” and “sweat away the pounds”!
If you’re more of a visual learner, here’s a video that breaks down the process -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjoEqQ19b4
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Top 10 Impressions.
In the digital age, and the need for instantaneous information I have devoted more time sharing health and nutrition tidbits via Twitter and on the FB MTH Fitness “page”. Rather then blogging or the MTH Fitness “group”.
With that said, I highly recommend you join and "like" the MTH Fitness Page or follow me on Twitter @mthfitness, in order to remain in the loop. For those of you that have a FB page, I’m sure you’re aware of the analytic for administrators called “impressions”. FYI, an impression is a stat that displays the amount of times a posting rendered on user’s browsers. These impressions can come from a user’s news feed, live feed, etc. This gives admins the ability to see which postings were most and least popular. In turn, they can make future postings that cater to the user’s needs.
Here are the top 10 impressions in descending order from the MTH Fitness page. The postings consist of articles, videos, photos with commentary etc.
10. Swapping Meat for Nuts to Lower Diabetes Risk - NY Times Article
9. Ingredients for McDonalds New Smoothie (Over 15!) –Short Commentary
8. Never Too Busy – Health Cartoon
7. Should You Eat Soup or the Salad First? – Short Commentary
6. If You Have Back Problems You Should Avoid Crunches – NY Times Article
5. US Calories vs India and Africa Calories - Short Commentary
4. The Making of Chicken Nuggets – Vegsource Article
3. Kiwi (Chinese Gooseberry) vs. Apple and Orange- Photo with commentary
2. Recommended Pedometers for Your Budget – Commentary with Amazon links
1. "Brown rice isn't that much more nutritious than white rice." Dr. Furhman – HealthSource Video
For more information on these topics you can go here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/MTH-Fitness/134469229957530
All the best,
Marcus T. Hodge
MTH Fitness – Personal Training, Group Training, and Fat Blasting Boot Camp
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