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Interestingly the watermelon (and other plants) don't quite eat the sunlight, but the chlorophyll in the plant uses the sunlight to get enough energy to steal the carbon atoms from the CO2 in the air. So your water melon is literally made out of thin air!
When you lose weight, it is literally breathed away out of your body into the air
Is that true, though? Your body needs energy for various tasks and those have different mechanisms of spending the energy. Muscles, for example, move, which creates heat. But that heat is not simply breathed out.
The heat is literally produced by oxidizing (burning) carbon that you then breathe out as carbondioxide.
Hit them with ye old oxidation trick