Can you lose weight by farting?

[JanglingJack]

Thank goodness I'm single!

Half awake all night due to the magnificent amount of air leaving my body. Such a racket of different, lengthy sounds too 🤣

I'd had the uncomfortable tummy and eggy burps... This was something entirely different... A symphony of the longest loudest farts you ever did hear.

I was quite proud of myself?

Week 3 and 6.6lbs down. That'll do me.

I've given up smoking and in peri at the same time so I feel like it's an uphill battle. I was going to say no side effects 🤣

Omg! I was so gassy the other day, think it was trapped wind, had pains in my stomach area.. was at work so couldn't wait to get home.
When I did I layer on my bed and was rubbing my belly circle motions to try relieve it.. and wow.. yep, the sounds were long and fabulous.. felt so much better after, so was trapped wind..
But the relief was nearly as good feeling as the sounds coming out of me..

Sorry, just had to say, as your post made me laugh..

If you could lose weight by farting I would never have needed Mounjaro in the first place!

I am the opposite - my farting, burping, acid reflux have all reduced significantly since starting! I am off my daily omeprazole prescription for acid reflux for the first time in 7 years.

So strange how it effects people differently!

If I could lose weight by farting there'd be nothing left of me

This made me laugh, and I’m not even on any weight loss injections (popped up in active).

I’m genuinely proud of my morning farts, although I do apologise to my cats.

My entire life has been a science experiment attempting to prove this hypothesis. The data is not looking promising.

Unfortunately it is probably the opposite way around. I suspect that when you are full of gas you gently float a little off the scale (like a hot air balloon). 😏

No.

You actually become heavier because there is no air to help you float.

Pure science!

Snap!

You lose weight by breathing out carbon dixoide which is the byproduct of the body burning body fat.

Farts are something else entirely and a product of the gastric system..

Thanks for the laughs!

I've always been a champion farter, I'm not ashamed to say. Loads of shared a house when we were late teens, out of 2 girls one was a burper, one was a farter (obviously me now) just fart out all the lager gas, no smell - I'm told. At that age it just made any male in bed jealous 🤣

The other night was something else though.

Is it uncouth at pushing 50 to say I'd wished I'd recorded them for erm posterity 🤣

I didn't type any of this, I've got friend upstairs in the toilet at the mo who likes to post nasty things about me.

I suspect she's just jealous.

I'm going to go and throw her out now.

I've chucked her out and told her never to darken my doorstep again with her shenanigans.

You just can't trust some people these days. Tbh I was waiting for her to go up so I could say - pull my finger - to myself 🤣

Too much? Probably. I should join the March thread really. Or maybe not!

3 weeks, 6lbs, I'm happy with that considering I'm going through the mill at the moment and little movement or exercise... Hopefully that will all change soon!

Is that true, because I wasn't sure if you were having me on or not.

Don't we all breathe out carbon dioxide?

Help me, I'm turning into Philomena Cunk!

I was happier just farting in my sleep.

I'm in my 60's and windier than I've ever been! Discussions with friends have concluded that it happens to pretty much everyone round about menopause. So settle yourself and just own it - you'll get used to quacking like a duck on your way to the bathroom in the morning!

If this were the case, I reckon I’d be in hospital being treated for emaciation 🫠🫠😂

I've had norovirus twice in the space of two months, now I’m on antibiotics for something else and both seem to have completely wrecked my gut flora and turned me into a walking gas bottle 🫠

This is outing for anyone reading that knows this story. 28 years ago, heavily pregnant with first, living in Midlands city (see what I did there? Chucked in a bit of ambiguity)

Mum decides to drive up, with my Nan and we're all to go to Skegness for no apparent reason.

So we're in a joke shop (museums were closed) and my Nan is just farting all the way round! Rather than one big rip, she's trying to walk and hold them in bless her... So there's just these little squelching sounds going round the shop.

All of a sudden, everyone hears it and latches on and they're all going omg... Where's that toy, the farting one, it's so funny! It's over here! No, it's over here. I just heard it over there! No it's over your way!

Nan's trying to head out of the shop, me and Mum cotton on, I start laughing on the verge of wetting myself 8 months pregnant... I shouldn't laugh still. We never spoke of it again.

Yeah, that was it. Poor Nan! Sometimes all I have to do now is stand up. I completely sympathise with her.

The mounjaro gas has been something else though, prefer it to eggy burps still, but at least I'm on my own. All my favourite things are on the avoid list. Oh well!

Haha sorry, regarding your duck quacking to the bathroom. DD is 16 now. 50/50 with her Dad, but this has been going on for a good year or so!

I think I'm sneaking to the bathroom like a ninja for my 5.30am wee. Oh no. You're right, it is quacking. Cue her guffawing - morning! D'oh!! 🤣

Oh no! I hope you get over everything soon! It's a nightmare one thing on top of another.
I reckon my gut bacteria went back in my 20s when I was prescribed strong NSAIDs(?) ... I remember feeling sick for weeks, I was young, fit, healthy and thin! Then I just kept vomiting, then had the classic black tarry stools of a stomach ulcer... I've had to have omeprazole with lots of things ever since. I'm quite outspoken in my hatred of all things ibuprofen and other anti inflammatories. It's left me so susceptible to illness, weakened immune system, lack of vitamin absorption.
I'm not sure there's any coming back to it for me. Kim hi (hi Kim) Kimchi etc just gives me heartburn... Need another omeprazole 🙄

Have you tried the bicarbonate test? Drink a tsp in water and if you burp within 10 mins then your stomach acid is good. If you don't then the problem is actually the opposite. You don't have enough stomach acid and your stomach is emptying too slowly and pushing food back up.

Admittedly this is from instagram so not sure of its validity.

For gut health I've found going low carb really helps. I end up eating a lot of brassicas and I seem to have helped the good bacteria. I had IBS D and it's pretty much resolved on MJ. I can now eat chickpeas no probs. Red kidney beans are still a bit exciting.

Excuse my ignorance, but what are brassicas? Thank you!

You breathe out air, with a higher proportion of carbon dioxide than you breathed in. It changes in composition from 0.04% to 4%. You definitely don't breathe out carbon dioxide!

@JanglingJack Its the cabbage family, so broccoli and cauliflower would be in there too.

Ohhh. No, none of those for me! I'm doing well on my 5 bean chilli.
I live alone 😂