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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. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Fuego Fish posted:I can deal with being a little hungrier on occasion if it means I can look at myself in the mirror and think "Goddamn I've got some sweet abs." Well, statistically, there's about a 1 in 500 chance you can deal with it.
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