Replies to '08/05 Fat Abusers'

Well, the way your body stores fat has a lot to do with it.  You have insulin, which stores carbs and fat into fat cells (btw, you have a certain # of fat cells and they can shrink or get bigger based on what's stored/used).  Then you have glucagon, ACTH, thyroid hormone,  and epinephrine that have the opposite effect of insulin and break down fat stores and use it for energy. 

How you store energy in fat cells and the rate that it's broken down into energy determine someone's weight.  So if youre starving yourself, you can still be fat because your body "hangs on" to the say, 1000 calories you consume in a day (whether its low fat carbohydrates or fatty meal) because your body doesn't use all 1000 calories and it's not being burned off because your body is in starvation mode (lower metabolism).  Or you have hypothyroidism or hormone deficiency.