I understand at a very basic level that when we lose weight, our bodies burn fat stores for energy. But since we don’t have a little fire actually going on in our bodies, where does this fat go? How do we ‘excrete’ these pounds and pounds of fat and not ever see where it goes? Same thing with atrophied or “lost” muscle – where does it go?
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for fat, when you lose weight/gain weight, the cells expand or shrink. you don’t grow more fat cells and you don’t lose fat cells when you gain/lose weight. your fat cells are distributed among your body based on your genetics. so if you do liposuction or something to remove fat cells, then if you gain weight again, you’ll gain weight at a different place. so this is why spot reduction is a myth. you can’t target an area to lose fat, you can only target an area to build muscle. if you want to lose that stomach fat, you have to lose fat overall (depending on your genetics, most of the fat will be lost from the stomach area, but other areas will also lose fat).
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