Not sure if this is clear. Our bodies are supposed to replace all the cells every 7 or so years. Does that mean the fat too? Or when someone loses 20 year weight, are you getting rid of 20 year old fat?

  • JandroDelSol@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago

    Set point isn’t some magic thing, it’s just the fact that if you eat a consistent diet, you’ll gain/lose weight until your calories in is the same as your calories out. If you’re overweight, you’re eating more than the human body evolved to handle, so your stomach has to expand to accommodate that. When you try and lose weight, you’re usually eating less food, and so your stomach isn’t full and can cause discomfort.

    Losing weight is hard, I get it. I’m working on it myself. But it’s not like your body is working against you. If perceived famine caused people to gain weight, victims of actual famines would be overweight, not skin and bones. It’s not your body against you, it’s the impulsive parts of your brain versus the rational parts.

    • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      17 hours ago

      Yea, but there’s more to it than that. Thyroid causes issues that cause weight to pack on, no matter what your caloric intake is, menopause causing low estrogen causes weight gain because the visceral fat around your organs, the type you can’t exercise off, makes a kinda knock off estrogen, so your body packs on weight, to try and make estrogen there. You could eat one meal a day, all healthy and still put weight on. And there’s so many more health conditions that cause weight gain. Just Genetics, even. The calories in vs calories out theory has been debunked as a singular cause. Sure, if you have no underlying health issues and you watch what you eat, focus on fibre, legumes, vegetables etc, exercise the right amount, you will lose weight, but, if you are able to do that, you are probably already thin. People who are overweight, overwhelmingly have other conditions causing issues, too.