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Go try dramatically changing your weight and see how it makes you feel.

For the record I've never been obese, I'm in excellent shape and lift weights ~5 times a week. When bulking, eating enough calories to increase by weight by 25% requires significant effort. Similarly when I have do my cuts I find it incredibly difficult to get down to 10-12% body-fat.

My body clearly has a weight it wants to be at, and deviating from that requires a significant mental effort. I imagine someone obese trying to lose weight struggles the same way I do. The body wants to be at a certain size, and forcing it to change is difficult.



Maybe a better phrasing is "the body becomes accustomed to a certain size"?


The accepted term for that idea is body weight set point. It's still a theory, but a lot of people attempting to lose weight seem to independently discover the idea as they rubber-band quickly back to their pre-diet weight.




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