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?
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?
Kind of. I eat well, not much junk, and was underweight for most of my life, hit menopause and now at a normal BMI but that is like 25lb (11kg) more than I weighed when young. I do work out heavier now, but no way could I have maintained this much weight as a young woman, my body would not do it.
Stable again now, it’s not like I keep putting on weight just not skinny like before. More like a medium - not average for the US, our average would be fat - but true medium like about the middle of how much my body can healthily weigh, rather than a little less than it should.
My mom and grandma both gained in midlife then lost weight in old age and told me not to diet in midlife because that weight you might be glad for when old, it is cushion for getting sick and losing weight.