Unsurprisingly

124.6. I had a pretty normal day, muesli, rice cakes and a banana, but I also had Biltong (yum), and then I was really thirsty at night so I ended up drinking about 500ml of water above what I usually do.

I'm still down, so I'm not terribly upset. I do REALLY want to get back below the line tho.

I've been ALMOST good.

Had some rice cakes at 12, and a banana at 4. But then at 5:30, frank came over with a strip of biltong so I went nom on that. That's only about 100g, so even if it was pure fat (which it wasn't) it shouldn't make too much difference. Was super yummy tho.

Was good yesterday

124.75  Had muesli, rice cakes, 2 pears and a bit of rice at dinner.

So far today have had a bowl of muesli at 9:30. Want to get back under the line.

Amazingly bad yesterday.

125.75

Muesli at 9, rice cakes at 1. But then Tharyn suggested 'fuck it friday'. So I then had a pizza, (admittedly, home made, and reasonably small), booze, and chips. I'm over the line. 8-(

Tonight we're going out for a birthday party. So I'm guessing I'm going to be having a small salad or something tonight.

As I was feeling good about 700g..

124.9

I was bad yesterday. Muesli at 8ish, and 3 rice crackers at 2. I also had one of jade's chips from Red Rooster, and also had a peanut butter sandwitch at about 6, as well as one and a half pears (the first one was half rotten)

Today is a good day to be unfat.

125.15, so 700g from yesterday.

Looking at the graph, it does look like my target is achievable.  Yay!

Muesli at 9, 3 rice cakes at 12, and a banana at 4.  Was hungry at night. 8-(

Hrm.

125.85. That doesn't classify as 'good', but it's only barely bad.
(Edit: Made a typo, put 126.85, not 125.85)

Have been reading about how fat cells work today.

Basically, they're continuously generating fat, and releasing glucose into the bloodstream. When you haven't eaten, they're only releasing. When you've eaten, they're only absorbing.

I also read about someone saying that physics-based diets don't work. Well, I respectfully disagree.

Admittedly, I could be doing this _better_. I could be exercising, and trying to build up muscle mass. But fuck it. This is easy, and doesn't require thinking.

Question was:
If a person has been overweight for along time is the fat old fat? Or does the body recycle the fat, tries to use old fat and stores new one?

With respect to fat cells themselves, the body does not "recycle" them in any sense. What does happen is that the body is constantly synthesizing and breaking down the triglyceride contents of fat cells.

An overweight person does not necessarily have more fat cells than the skinny version of themselves. Rather, it is merely that their fat cells are considerably larger due to containing more triglycerides.

A skinny person becomes fat when the balance between fat synthesis and fat breakdown skews more towards fat synthesis. As a result, over time, their fat cells will accumulate increasing amounts of triglycerides and expand accordingly, and eventually, the person is "overweight."

If that overweight person then undertook to lose weight, and managed to successfully do so, what one would observe would be that their adipose tissue ( the fat cells ) had shrunk, much like letting the air out of a balloon. Overall, however, the number of balloons would still be the same, albeit occupying much less space in the jeans.

In general, the number and distribution of fat cells is fixed at birth, but some studies have suggested that under certain conditions, it may be possible for fat cells to divide and thereby grow in number.