Well I guess there is no answer but still would like one from someone in the know. Thanks for the applause and Lynn I am so thrilled for you being able to taste your food again. Being a gourmet cook and using taste to guage food preparation, I can't imagine having inactive taste buds. Oh, how fast the bad stuff becomes a habit, lets see here, boomers & ice cream, ice cream and boomers....makes perfect sense to me!

Dotsie, Yes I feel good and my "uncle Arthur" does not make a strong appearance. I'm waiting 1 more week to begin again, Dr.'s orders, with some sort of exercise program. (must be easy, short and fun!) I will start with walking my Lab (he's a puller though which is why I haven't walked him for a few months, (before I made the appt w/the surgeon to take out the gallbladder)). Maybe I could get on the diet forum in this group. Guess I need to think more about myself and my care, I'm worth it!

What happens to fat that is lost in dieting is like what happens to the gas in a truck. The fat in your body is burned to fuel your bodily functions just as gasoline is used to fuel the engine of a truck. A truck usually has two tanks and if the first one runs out, it automatically transfers over to the other and burns the fuel from it.

Well, if your body burns all the fuel in the food you have taken in, it transfers over to the 'second tank', (i.e. the fat stored in your body) and it burns that as fuel.

All of the activities of your body, including breathing, digesting, heart beating, etc. burn fuel, and of course exercising burns the most. And the more difficult the exercise, the more you burn. Physical exercise causes your body to burn more efficiently so it's a double benefit.
When you have burned all the fuel in your food, your body begins to burn your stored fat.

smile

[ July 18, 2005, 05:08 PM: Message edited by: smilinize ]

You are so smart. I should have known you would know. Guess I burfned more fuel than I realized. I did run around alot in this heat. As long as its gone. Thank you smart lady.

Egads, This means I am always running on a full tank...with a reserve backup...AND a spare tire to boot!

chick

I'd like to burn more fat off my thighs but when I lose weight, my butt goes away along with my boobs and my thighs remain the same.

Smilinize, I didn't forget and you have won the prize. Watch your mailbox as the prize will be coming via snail mail and thanks for that answer....

LOL Chick, you are too funny!
Congrats to Smile for winning the prize! (and for being so smart)

I get a prize?? Yippee!! I can't wait. Now I want to know what it is!!

Now I'll have to go to the mailbox every day.

Waiting impatiently.
smile

Smile, is there a way we can tell the fat which area of our bodies to burn first? Now if you can give me an answer to that there's another prize right behind Chatty's.

Abracadabra, munchacabuncha...burn the fat off the waist and stomach!