I thought the body stopped adding fat cells in late adolescense so why would that matter? [unless i guess ginormous as a teen or something]

Peter Arner, Professor, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, said "The total number of fat cells in the body is stable overtime, because the making of new fat cells is counterbalanced by an equally rapid break down of the already existing fat cells due to cell death."

how do you know it's water weight? Did you have a hydrostatic weigh-in and that was confirmed? just curious

To draw their conclusions, the researchers analyzed fat extracted from about 700 people. Here’s what they found:

• The number of fat cells grows through childhood and adolescence, but stabilizes sometime in late adolescence. After that, your fat-cell count stays the same.

• People on the fast track to obesity pack on their fat cells more quickly in childhood and stop producing them around age 16 or 17. Naturally thin people have fewer fat cells, but keep producing them until the age of 18 or 19.

• Even extreme events—for example, dramatic weight loss through surgery or super-sized weight gain—change the size of fat cells in the body, but don’t nudge the number. (That said, many experts believe years of excessive weight gain that lead to hundreds of extra pounds will eventually cause fat cells to multiply.)

• About 10 percent of your fat cells die and are replaced each year, whether you’re thin, fat, or somewhere in between.

No one knows why some people end adolescence with more fat cells than others. There’s a good case to be made that it’s hard-coded in your genes (in other words, blame mom and dad). Events during fetal development and childhood might also play a role—for example, chowing down on calorie-rich food early in life could kick off certain processes in your body, preparing it for a life of fat retention. But no matter the reason, it’s clear that some people enter adulthood set up for caloric challenges, with a big family of fat cells. They won’t necessarily gain weight more easily than a naturally lean person, but they’ll probably feel a stronger pull toward that second batch of chocolate chip cookies.

To put it another way: fat people are doing something wrong. But they’re doing it because their bodies are telling them to.

Definitely fell off the wagon 2 weeks ago... Had some company paid training and I went a little berserk on the desert carys every fucking day... Went from 214 to 241 in about 6 days...