A NEW STUDY FOUND THAT OUR BODY’S CELLS REMEMBER THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF FATNESS AND WANT TO GO BACK
I’m skinny. I figured I’d just get that out of the way before I dive into this. Plus, I’m old already, which means it’s pretty darn unlikely that I’ll ever be overweight, or get fat. And a new study makes my former presumption of that feel pretty secure. How? Because this new study has found pretty conclusively that people who lose weight have a hard time keeping the weight off for a simple reason: their body’s cells remember their fatness. Now that might sound strange at first. But our bodies are literal systems with their own coding, and their own understandings as to how they work.
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CELLS HAVE EPIGENETIC MEMORY, WHICH REALLY MEANS THEY WANT YOU TO GAIN ALL THE LOST WEIGHT, BACK
So how does this really work? Or, how does this really not work too well for people trying to lose weight? The new study from Nature found that a body’s fat cells don’t forget their “epigenetic memory” of how they used to be fatter. In other words, they can’t stop pining for their good old fatness days. And they want to go back to that sense of security. So even if you do everything right in terms of dieting and exercise, your body is still predisposed to wanting to be heavier and put any weight you lost right back on.
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REPROGRAMMING OUR BODIES’ CELLS COULD PROVE CHALLENGING FOR MOST PEOPLE
So whenever your diet and exercise regimen slips even a little bit, your cells are ready to take any extra calories you don’t immediately burn off and turn them into weight gain. It might be helpful to think of this as your body being programmed into thinking that being heavier is better. And reprogramming your body at the cellular level into accepting a new, lighter body mass could take quite some time. But for some, time might not even matter. It’s, ah, food for thought for anyone looking to lose weight and keep it off. Because fatness could literally be your body’s mindset, and you will always have to be diligent in denying it the extra calories, forever.
