I pass gas a lot on my diet. And the running does not help either. It's always been like that. And it's a price I accept to pay.

I am not looking for a cure.

But it did get me thinking about the energy context of all this gas I am passing.

I read the energy content of the average fart (the fuel content of which comes from hydrogen and methane) is about 35 calories.

I must fart at least 20 times a day (tomorrow I will count). So that's some good calories out I have going on down there.

-wiping my tears of laughter - I nominate this as the post of the year! Thanks! And I will count too!

it would the a GUY who researched this......LOL

this is hilarious!

Fascinating.

I guess all of our bodies are less efficient than we think they are. Seems like all the calories go straight to the butt and... actually maybe they are. Just not how we think.

Everytime i pass gas, I will think of Ian and this post. LOL, thanks for the laugh!!

ROFL Thanks for the laugh!!

Ok I got a whiff of this topic and now i have to toot my horn in here..

Why did I not think to look up the calorie information on this? I've looked up calories for every other bodily function.

I think you're on to something there, Ian. I was thin, pre-children. And gassy. Stinky/gassy. Embarrassing. Once when pregnant, I went out to dinner with a group at a fancy, old fart restaurant. On my dinner plate was something interesting. Turns out it was.....candied onions!.....errrrgghh. Boy did I have a miserable day at work the next day! I kept having to trot away from my co-workers to do my cropdusting in the hallways. Solved the roach problem for a while, though. (One of the older gentlemen at work kept looking for the hydrogen sulfide leak.) But that gave me the idea to cut back on onions. Helped with the gas problem, but now I'm fat. Let's see...50 calories per onion...35 calories per fart...wonder how many farts I can get out of one onion? Experiment to come. Hey, two farts and I'm more than even! Close your doors, co-workers!

Ian, how Can you post this stuff with your picture attached! You'd never guess what a refined, sophisticated lady I am IRL. <curls pinky>

I wonder if whatever article you read used calories of heat content. It takes 1000 calories of heat content to equal one calorie of food content.

So technically if we fart 100x a day at 35 calories burned each time we'd lose a pound?

*off to buy some beans*

I laughed so hard at this post.

Ian, I think you have way too much time on your hands! LOL

I have a friend who actually went to a nutritionist for supplements to stop her farting. I will have to let her know this is why she is now gaining weight! ROFL

If that were true, I would be skin and bones LOL

This made me laugh big time!

Also yes, only a guy would muse about these things.

Glad to help, ReillyJ! 15 minutes of laughter: 10-40 calories.

So if you find bathroom humor funny (which, I'm ashamed to admit, I do), you'll lose Even More on the Fart More Weight Loss regime!