So you know when people tell you medical things and you think 'yeah, no that's definitely not true'. Like you lose most of your 'fat' (not the cells but your adipose or whatever I wasn't really listening) through *BREATHING*. And apparently your ears are self cleaning, and..... get this.... any build-up of wax just falls out, or..... apparently.... gets taken away on the breeze. MREEEERGH! Lies alert! This isn't true. The wind is not magic. Wax and fat aren't air compatible. These people have no idea what they're talking about. I don't suddenly get very very thin when I'm in a storm.
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@TheBreadmonkey having watched the giant chunks of wax get flushed from my daughter’s ears at the doctor’s office… yeah, no, that shit ain’t coming out on its own.
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As others have said, fat is (partly kinda sorta) lost through breathing. Fat molecules are mostly made of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, although there's other stuff in there too. Metabolization "burns" fat into energy, plus some waste products that allow most of the "other stuff" to be excreted with other bodily waste* (although a few extra difficult bits just get permanently stored in your liver), and lots of carbon dioxide and H20/water/moisture. Your exhaled breath (mine, too) contains lots of carbon dioxide & moisture, some of which indeed comes from any fat you've recently burned.
*Fun-ish fast: some water & other waste products leave the body through the skin, as sweat and other skin-based exudants. (in unrelated news, I'm off to go take a shower)
**IDK about the self-cleaning ears thing, though. Mine seem to be self-cleaning in kind of the same way as my self-cleaning oven, which I really ought to get around to cleaning one of these days.