What Happens to Fat Cells & Why Keto is More Effective!

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How many pounds have you lost? If you’re like me, hundreds!!!

Seriously, I’ve lost my weight numerous times over! And you?

The problem is not our self-discipline, our starvation for a time, or even our extreme fitness workouts! The problem is retention!

How can I maintain that weight loss I achieved, over the following year after losing it?

Every wonder, “What the heck happens to fat cells on a diet?”

The answer to this fascinating question is why some diets have great weight loss success, and others do not!

Actually, the answer to this question and the weight loss plan we choose can determine whether we will successful RETAIN the weight loss!

Most people having heard of the Ketogenic diet are drawn to Keto because they want to lose weight. They have heard that Keto is one of the fastest ways to burn fat and drop pounds quickly. And research backs this up.

But why is that? What is fat and how is it expelled from our body?

Even more mind-boggling is how Keto accelerates the fat loss process, while eating an enormous percentage of fat?

It is hard to even imagine that butter, steak, bacon, heavy whipping cream, buffalo wings, ribs, hamburgers, avocadoes, fudge etc. can be the trigger for amazing weight loss! Read on to find out why!

What Happens to Fat Cells & Why Keto is More Effective!

How Keto Accelerates the Fat Loss Process?

In most adults, fat cells basically remain at a stable level. Fat cells store any excess calories as fat for use later.

When we are underfed, such as when we are on a calorie restricted diet, the body uses the fat that has been stored to fuel the body. This energy producing process releases carbon dioxide and water into the body, which is then expelled.

The Keto diet is specifically designed to supercharge the way that the body uses stored fat for energy.

Keto makes fat the primary energy source rather than secondary energy source after carbohydrates. Catch this!

Keto uses the excess fat in our body, ie. stored fat to be our primary energy source!

In this report, we will take a look at

  1. Exactly what is fat?
  2. What purpose does fat serve in our body?
  3. What happens to fat when we lose weight?

Understanding these answers will help illuminate why Keto, a low carb high fat diet, in fact helps us lose fat, despite its high fat content!

What is Fat?

The average person in their body has somewhere between 10 and 30 billion cells that store fat, called adipocyte cells. When the body, through food consumption, is given more than the level of energy that that body currently needs, the body automatically stores that energy for use at a later time.

Insulin is the energy storage hormone that regulates how the body goes about storing energy as fat.

How Many Fat Cells?

The number of fat cells that a person has is largely set during adolescence, and then remains pretty constant during adulthood. Regardless of a person’s weight throughout their lives, rarely does the number of fat cells change. For example, if a child has more fat cells, as an adult they will have more fat cells in their body.

What Happens to Fat Cells During Weight Loss?

When someone loses weight, they do not lose fat cells. No one, not on any diet, ever loses fat cells!

Fat cells simply shrink!

A way to picture this is to see a multitude of water balloons making up a person’s body mass.

When a person loses weight, the balloons shrink!