A Major Fucker posted:

To everyone trying to lose weight: it's very, very unlikely that you will. Here's why in a nutshell. Adipocytes, or fat cells, store a variable amount of fat. When they get too full, they split to make more. When they get empty, they stop releasing leptin, the hormone that makes you stop feeling hungry.

Fat people have more adipocytes than skinny people. Losing weight doesn't reduce your number, it just reduces the fat stored in each cell. So if you're significantly below the highest weight you've ever been, your fat cells are never going to produce leptin and you'll be hungry forever. I'm sure some of you have personally experienced this. It's why, even though it's possible to lose weight, everyone eventually gains it back.

Here's a National institute of Health article about the (un)successfulness of weight loss programs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453 . It shows what I said, that even though people can lose weight they will gain it back.

Here's a much larger study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reaching the same conclusions: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full

Happy 2015.

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