Leigh's Pop Quiz

It leaves the body as we use them in the production or reuse of ATP, for energy. (I can get into Aceytl-Coa, and the Krebs (or TCA cycle) but it feels unnecessary).

Or in simpler terms, it is dissipated as heat.

edit: I know excess protein is either stored as trigycerides or released in the urine as urea. I am not sure if fat goes through a similar process...i doubt it, I believe it is all stored until we harness it for energy.

edit2: I forgot. Certain lipids are also execreted though sweat gland, for example, to lubricate the hair shaft. I forgot about that :D
 
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DeepGreen said:
It leaves the body as we use them in the production or reuse of ATP, for energy.

Or in simpler terms, it is dissipated as heat.
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How dare you post at the same time as me!
Just wanted to add ATP isn't the only reason behind why bodily lipid oxidation occurs.
 
Trevor M. said:
How dare you post at the same time as me!
Just wanted to add ATP isn't the only reason behind why bodily lipid oxidation occurs.
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I BEAT YA TO IT!


I agree with you, it is not the only reason, but ATP is our main source of energy utilization.

You got other ways to, like CP...and i'm sure many others. I haven't taken biochemistry yet...so i wouldn't be deemed close to an `expert` yet.
 
DeepGreen said:
edit: I know excess protein is either stored as trigycerides or released in the urine as urea.
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Actually, its the nitrogen, originating from the amino acid, that forms urea. Under normal circumstances protein it self is not released into the urine unless you have a certain medical condition, can't remember the exact name of it though.
 
What about that special little drug that causes apoptosis of fat cells when applied directly to them? Though if I understand that mechanism correctly, it is still through thermodynamics since supposedly the "dead" fat cells are in the bloodstream and need to be burned. Doesn't really make sense though. Dead fat cells need to be burned? eh, its not really a mainstream thing anyways... which is probably for the best
 
Wow some excellent answers, and great talk about fat use of energy.


How does fat leave the body?

Well as Trevor and Deep were stating this starts at the bodies need to use fat as energy. I will be honest, it gets real technical and really all you really need to know is this.

There are two methods in which the body removes fat, breathing and peeing.

What does this have to do with us, how does that help us knowing that?

Okay well first what do you need in order to pee? Fluid. More importantly water. You can burn up all the fat you want, but you need to flush it out of the system. Water is your king cleanser. The more water you drink when in a deficit, the more of that fat you are going to flush out of the system.

What makes us breath harder? Exercise! The more your breathe, the harder you breathe, the more you burn!


How much water should I drink?

1/2 to 1 gallon a day for women who exercises, 1 to 1 1/2 gallon for men who exercise.

How much should I exercise?

Only as much as you need to keep the fat burning. Start off light, try a couple of days a week with the right diet, go from there.

Remember less is more.
 
CoachCrimson said:
What about that special little drug that causes apoptosis of fat cells when applied directly to them?
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One it is just a really bad idea to purposely ingest a drug that causes cell death for fat loss and also you are correct not necessary as the effort and hard work is in the burning. Your kidney's do a fine enough job about being a natural trash disposal.
 
agreed. it is an insanely dangerous drug. Though people dont generally ingest it, it is applied either topically or intramuscularly. Two different applications, two different results, or so they say. Apparently when the cells are killed, they dump into the bloodstream, and if they arent burned as fuel, they are redeposited. Not sure if that is quite the way it works or not. Also, is it actually true that the body never actually kills or removes fat cells (adipose tissue)? That it only pulls the fatty acids out of the cell and shrinks the cell itself in the process. One of the theories I had read discussed this and theorized that it is the reason why severely overweight people are more likely to gain the weight back. Does the body have a method for removing fat cells entirely? Or must we choose between dealing with it forever or turning to an alterior method? Oh, and i would never, ever, ever recommend any of these drugs to anyone whatsoever. The only things that are even remotely close to a magic pill have such a high chance of death its not even worth thinking about them. But they do bring up some interesting issues, lol
 
CoachCrimson said:
One of the theories I had read discussed this and theorized that it is the reason why severely overweight people are more likely to gain the weight back. Does the body have a method for removing fat cells entirely?
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After the growth years (puberty) fat cells are there to say. You no longer make any more nor do you grow new ones. Some say how many fat cells you have is determined by genetics others say its set by the way one ate during the growth years. But yes, from my understanding of the fat cell theory (Set point theory) is that the body can only shrink existing fat cells, not destroy them.
 
click your heels together three times saying
I want to be thin
I want to be thin
I want to be thin.

Not sure what your secret is but mine wasn't a secret - don't deprive yourself and just keep going forward.
 
I do believe there is a secret to fat loss. What is it?


A while back I did a conference for my book The Fat Loss Troubleshoot. I took various questions. Below is one of those questions and my response to it.

Question: Gerry asks- Seriously Leigh, What is the real secret to fat loss?

Leigh Answers: I love this question, I will tell you why. I love this question because it’s as if that fat loss is this magical mystery, this holy grail that exists on a mountain top somewhere just out of reach. That the road to fat loss is going to have some dancing leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of it. It’s says everything about our society, how fat loss is made to be this mythical thing that can’t be reached when really it is just so clouded by bad information and the worst parts of capitalism in our country.

The truth is fat loss is really a simple process. I didn’t say it was easy in carrying out that process, but the technical aspect of it is simple. I don’t mean it in the aspect of that you don’t have to work hard, but simple yes. You just have to block out all of those people telling you the wrong things and allow trust for ones telling you the right things. That isn’t easy because the bad so out weigh the good.

Regardless I do have a secret to fat loss, are you ready?

I said are you ready?

(everyone chimes in “yes!”)

My secret to fat loss is cooking.

(everyone laughs)
I am serious!

I am going to tell you, if you eat food that you enjoy on a daily basis you are going to be happier. You are going to want to not cave. I don’t understand how these bodybuilders for example take these 99% fat free chicken breasts, slam them down on a george foreman grill and dry the crap out of it and gobble it up.

I couldn’t do it, I have to enjoy what I eat, I love eating, and it is an important part of my day. My food can make my mood, it really can. I have no problem with saying I have emotional attachments to food, but because I am
someone who has emotional attachments to food I had to work and
find ways to prepare food that I enjoyed. I had to teach myself cooking, I had to teach my self what a spice rack really is.

So people, make friends with your spice rack, I want you to really understand your oven, your pots and pans because that truly is in my opinion the secret to fat loss.

The next thing you buy, I don’t want it to be a dumbell, I don’t want it to be stretchy bands, no…I want you to buy an instructional cookbook. I want you to learn how to prepare you food without having to use loads of butter, and olive oil. Without having to deep fry and batter. Anyone can slather a chicken breast in oil and make it taste good, it takes some work to eat healthy and have it taste good.

John Berardi for example released an amazing cookbook called Gourmet Nutrition and he gets it. He gets that you have to eat great, that the taste of your food is just as important as what you are eating.

You know the saying “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels?” LIES. Tell that to a 40 year old married woman who isn’t trying to snag some stud. A woman who is comfortable in her relationship, but is in danger of her health. She knows that her brownie taste better than being skinny, and she doesn’t care. But give her something that tastes good and gets the skinny and guess what, you just got fat loss.

That is my secret.
 
I hope some of you looked into the cooking aspect of your fat loss.

*POP QUIZ*

Carbohydrates are usually classified into 3 categories, what are they?
 
Glucose, Sucrose, Celluose

(trevor beat me to it, so i thought i'll give examples of the approiate ones...techinically table sugar is a disaccharide, bah! i give up)

edit, I think i'm gonna out-do trevor, and change my answer slightly....

Mono-, Di- and Poly- :p (but di is probably considered oligi-, grr, i can never win!)
 
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DeepGreen said:
Glucose, Sucrose, Celluose

(trevor beat me to it, so i thought i'll give examples of the approiate ones...techinically table sugar is a disaccharide, bah! i give up)

edit, I think i'm gonna out-do trevor, and change my answer slightly....

Mono-, Di- and Poly- :p (but di is probably considered oligi-, grr, i can never win!)
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Yeah, a Disaccharide is considered to be in the category of an Oligosaccharides. Of course, an Oligosaccharide could be considered to be in the same category as a polysacharride when the chain extends to 3+ links. So the answer could really be answered as either.
A. Monosacharride,Disaccharide, and Polysacharide.
Or
B. Monosacharide,Oligosaccharide, and Polysacharide!

Haha, well I couldn't let you beat me to the answer again like last time.
 
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