# Losing weight - where does the weight go?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 23, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-weight-where-does-the-weight-go/482645 "2009-01-23T15:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-weight-where-does-the-weight-go/482645/21 "2009-01-23T18:26:29Z")

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When your body burns fat, the overall effect is basically the same as if you actually burned that fat in a fire.

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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/losing-weight-where-does-the-weight-go/482645/22 "2009-01-23T18:28:44Z")

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> [@WF\_Tomba](#):
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> When your body burns fat, the overall effect is basically the same as if you actually burned that fat in a fire.

And just about as smelly. 😉

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