Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact

Re:Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact by hn8788 on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:20PM (#26041359)

IIRC, the "buffer" is because your body has to expend extra energy to make more fat cells if they aren't already there. Even if you lose weight after being fat, the extra fat cells are still there, so it takes less energy for your body to get fat again.

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Re:Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact by eggbert12 on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:41PM (#26041577)

If you go to lean from being fat and manage to stay there, are those fat cells eventually broken down or is that a new permanent record?

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Re:Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact by pvarangot on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:40PM (#26041561)

Nah it depends how you loose weight. If you properly do some kind of body re-composition diet where you gain muscle and loose fat mass and also change your BMR a bit, you can go in and out of this "metabolic buffer" state. My metabolic buffer lasts for about a month and a half and then I notice muscle mass going down and fat going up and my BMR changes.

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