Fat Cells: The Weight Loss Threat Over 40

When we try to lose weight over 40 all of us have the same problem: Fat accumulates very easily and it is harder to lose after 40 as well.

Storing fat used to be essential for survival, and fat is a great storage medium for energy. Throughout history, we have relied on our body fat to outlive numerous shortages and starving periods.

Nowadays, the ability of our bodies to stock fat easily threatens permanent weight loss. Let’s understand how fat cells work and why it is so challenging for men and women over 40 to lose weight permanently.

If your body takes in more energy as you spend existing fat cells fill up. Eating fat, starchy or sugary foods makes no difference - all extra calories are stored as fat. When the fat cells you already have are full, the body creates new fat cells, a biological process with no limits.

Fat cushions grow even more than when you are under stress, but the threat that poses the most danger to losing weight over 40 is: Existing fat cells are permanent, and won't be destroyed. You can reduce the number of fat stored in fat cells, but you cannot reduce the figure of existing fat cells.

A Neuropeptide called Leptin is transmitted to your brain when fat cells are full. As long as the Leptin level in your blood is high, your brain gets the message “no need to eat”. But when your fat cells are empty, the Leptin is missing- and you are becoming hungry.

Let’s be responsible and face the truth: If you need to lose weight permanently over 40, you’ll have to live with a light feeling of hunger most of the time. This is an emotional challenge and that’s why I stress so much the psychological science behind permanent weight loss- your mind needs ways to cope with that emotional challenge. Every weight loss program must include some mental advice also or it won’t help you to lose weight permanently.

In addition the distribution of fat shifts with age for women. For young women, it’s often on the hips and on the tights. For women after 40, it’s generally on the belly- and visceral belly fat is associated with many diseases.

Our bodies are equipped with important regulation mechanisms. Although we do not eat the same number of calories each day, our bodies hold their weight for a long time. Our bodies then compensate for these calories changes, which leads to another problem for accomplishing permanent weight loss over 40:

If you are eating too much for an extended period of time, your body adjusts to the new weight and will do it’s best to keep it. You will always feel the demand to fill up the existing fat cells. And the longer you are on starvation diets, the worse the feelings of hunger can get.

It is actually very easy to acquire weight. If you consume only 100 calories per day in excess of what your body burns, you’ll gain about 9 lbs (4.5 kg) per year. It's very easy to consume an additional 100 calories. For example, a 12 oz. can of Coca-Cola contains 155 calories, and a Kit Kat Wafer Bar has 218.

You would have to starve for roughly 2 weeks to lose these 9 pounds, or exercise by jogging 51 hours, or walking 126 hours.
This all goes to demonstrate that if you want to lose weight permanently after 40, small meals and snacks sum up, so be careful of what you eat.

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