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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
It's definitely rough to keep weight off once you're really heavy. As you gain weight you also gain more fat cells (as well as gaining fat within each cell). When you lose weight, you never lose the fat cells.
If one person who weighs 180 pounds and has never been a pound over can eat 2500 calories a day without exercise and not gain weight, someone who was once 350 pounds and is now at 180 pounds would gain weight at 2500 calories a day.
That's where some of the discrepancy is seen between people. That's why skinny-his-whole-life guy can eat more than dropped-alot-of-weight guy.
That's also why it's about lifestyle and why we need to target the young population before they're obese.
Unfortunately there's no way around it, devil. Hopefully your lifestyle and knowledge has changed enough so that even if you lose motivation to work out that early you'll still be able to be a healthy and fit individual, even if it means being a little bit heavier.
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Is everyone born with the same number of fat cells to begin with?