Them Fats!

Part 2: Them Fats: The body interprets the loss of weight – the usage of fat – as a “danger” situation.  If you are losing and using up fat, there is some sort of stress on the body and your body reacts to this by – as soon as you ingest more fat – MAKING MORE FAT CELLS TO STORE IT IN!

 The fat cell aspects:

 You see, fat cells are like tiny balloons, except these balloons fill with water and – using the generic term – also fill with fat. They basically are little fat batteries. You recharge them over and over again. You could also call the fat batteries fat balloons because as they recharge they grow in size; as they fill with new fat they puff up.

 What’s even worse is they are re-usable.  You inflate a fat cell with water and fat, then you drain it for the energy, you inflate them again, then you’ll drain it again, over and over again.

 So suppose you’ve been starving yourself all week.  You are starting to trim down and feeling good.  But come Friday you slip and order a greasy hamburger, fries and a large soda. First the body MAKES NEW FAT CELLS! The watch band on your arm begins to get tight.  Then, as your eating slows down, your body decides to reuse depleted fat cells, wherever those cells were last stored.

 You spent all week draining them and trimming down.  But what really happened is that you drained the fat cells of the fat and water they retain. The cells are still there.

 Once the body realizes it needs to store more fat than the new cells can take in, it re-inflates those older cells with the new fat coming in. Argh!

 The point is, once you get a fat cell, it doesn’t simply go away!

 In addition to this, they are REALLY easy to make.  Unlike muscle, bone, nerve and most other cells, fat cells can be built using easily found substances and since they work with water, the water tension can help to maintain the cell structure.

 They are VERY simple cells; useful beyond belief.  Easy to make!

 That’s the problem: They ARE easy to make!

 So, let’s say you ran 10 yards chasing down an apple pie.  You used fat to move those muscles, draining the fat cell and deflating it. But by god, you caught that nasty apple pie and gobbled it down.

 Does your body instantly refill the fat cell?  God no! It makes MORE of them using the new fat and only goes to the recycle bin to use an old fat cell once the new ones have been filled.

 So not only are your old fat cells sitting around waiting to be used, new fat cells have joined them.

 The only good thing is: Fat cells are like balloons.  If you inflate and deflate them often enough, they break down and pop – the skin of a popped fat cell is made from fat so it is instantly, further recycled – but once popped the fat cells are no longer around. The parts of popped fat cells that cannot be used get tossed to the waste processing center.  

 Yippee!!

 Unfortunately, as noted, your body tends to make new ones rather than reuse the old ones.  What’s the trigger on this?  Honestly?  How fast you eat.

 If you eat slowly, the existing fat cells are used.  If you eat fast, new ones are made.  So as you dive into that seven-course meal, the initial, quick consumption processes tells your body to make as many fat cells as possible because we need to store this stuff.  As you taper off and slow down your consumption, the body says, “well, we are not under any stress, I’ll reach for some of the unused fat cells for storage.”  As that happens, several start popping and are disposed of but the rest are filled again.

So the old adage about eating slowly has benefits BEYOND making you feel full.  It causes existing fat cells to wear out quicker!  Wore out fat cells are tossed away!

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