This topic is based on incredible talk by Ruben Meerman.
Let me start by asking you all a question. When we loose weight, say go from 80 to 70 kg, where does the remaining lost weight, here 10 kg, go?
Sweat? Stool? Energy?
The chemical formula of human fat is C55 H104 O6. There are a few variations between number of carbon and hydrogen atoms but oxygen remains same at 6 per atom.
So the reaction at weight loss goes like this:
C55 H104 O6 + 78 O2 —————————→ 55 CO2 + 52 H2O + Kj
Fat + oxygen gives carbon dioxide, water and energy.
How much each?
84% carbon dioxide and 16% water.
So if you were to loose 10 kg fat, you would be needing to loose 8.4 kg CO2 and 1.6 kg water.
NO SPECIAL DIET, NO SPECIAL ROUTINE, NO GREEN TEA
You just need to eat less and move more.
Let me elaborate them both. Eat less would mean you are consuming less calories than what you are needing to function in the day.
The second and more important one is move more which basically decides the pace of your weight loss. Now as we know for loosing 10 kg, we need to loose 8.4 kg carbon dioxide. But how do we do it? The only way you can do it is through your lungs pumping it out. Which would mean breathe more.
So does that mean if we sit and breathe more, we will be loosing weight?
No, but you will enter a medical state called hyperventilation wherein your body is getting more oxygen than is needs. You might need medical attention then.
So how do we do it? How do we make our own body require more breaths?
Simple: by creating a need for it.
When you do any physical activity, involving your muscles, your heart starts pumping more blood to those areas. Hence, to pump more blood, it starts beating faster and harder. Working in accordance with the heart are your lungs, which immediately sense need of oxygen inside and thus starts giving signals to increase breathing. Your breathes increase, resulting in giving off maximum carbon dioxide, thus reducing your weight. Bonus is the sweat which you release, containing the water molecules and also toxins from your body.
Hence, the ONLY way to decrease your weight is to exhale more carbon dioxide.
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