# Sweating out the fat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628 "2022-03-24T13:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/21 "2022-03-24T22:59:33Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Now there’s a dilemma. Do I want to be fat, or greasy? Depending on efficacy, it may not be either/or. I’m sure that’s a relief. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/22 "2022-03-24T23:07:12Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > Depending on efficacy, it may not be either/or. I’m sure that’s a relief. Double my chances of never meeting a woman? How could I lose! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/23 "2022-03-24T23:48:01Z")
Abdominal muscles help you poop efficiently. Maybe that explains the position. Could come in handy with enough food technology. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/24 "2022-03-25T03:06:55Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I have concern for the eyes, imagine being temp or permanently blind because your eyes are covered in goop? However, it might be helpful for those with perpetual **dry eyes** (due to Sjögren’s syndrome) to have more lipid production from the meibomian glands, so that less artificial moisturizing is required. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/25 "2022-03-25T03:19:59Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Food companies thought they hit it big when they came up with Olestra, which tastes like fat, but is minimally absorbed due to the rotation of the molecules. All it took to derail this product commercially was the popularization of a crude description of how it works and its effects. I’ve never forgotten an article I read about how a woman using Olestra to aid her weight loss wore white pants and rose to learn to her immense horror and embarrassment that her backside looked like the tissue on the bottom of a pizza box. It was a description that… err… stuck with me. I might be willing to tolerate a bit of greasiness in exchange for enhanced weight loss… but not that. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/26 "2022-03-25T03:25:14Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Hey, anything that doesn’t require eating well and getting exercise… Other alternatives: - Reducing caloric intake - Living in a refrigerated environment - Taking lots of mentally intensive tests ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/27 "2022-03-25T17:50:47Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Other alternatives: > > - Reducing caloric intake > - Living in a refrigerated environment > - Taking lots of mentally intensive tests Get Grave’s Disease ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/28 "2022-03-25T20:40:17Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Get Grave’s Disease Ulcerative colitis can result in significant weight loss too. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/29 "2022-03-25T21:15:55Z")
So can developing many types of cancer… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/30 "2022-03-25T21:22:54Z")
You bet! For most of human history, weight loss was NOT a good thing 99% of the time . . . ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/31 "2022-03-25T21:44:15Z")
In fact, most people have only been weighing themselves for a century or two, excepting the occasional Italian physiologist. But now obesity levels are 60-80%. Many people worry about their weight, including men as well as women, and many worry almost all the time about it. It is a somewhat helpful metric, but not that much so, and not worth worrying about in the absence of action. Weighing once a week more than suffices. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/32 "2022-03-26T00:03:23Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > You bet! For most of human history, weight loss was NOT a good thing 99% of the time . . . My wife’s great grandmother (who lived in Germany through both world wars) would tell my wife “the skinny ones – they died first” when encouraging her to eat more. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628/33 "2022-03-26T23:58:00Z")
I lost 100 and a couple odd pounds over 4 years of chemo and radiation [and about 20 pounds up and down, it was funky, I could weigh 200 one week, and the next week weigh in would be 190, then the week after that would be 205. It kept bouncing, and I was eating roughly the same calorie intake every day. Or I should say that input and output stayed pretty much the same all the time.] It took me time but I put the 100 pounds back on _fast_ once my body mostly recovered from the chemo and radiation, and I am now very gently losing it again. I would like to be back down to 180 for about a year, then start losing it again down to 135ish. Cancer Weightloss 0/5 stars, would not recommend! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-out-the-fat/961628.md?page=1)