eli5 when do we put on the body fat?

Question

Eli5…. when do we put on the fat? Is it immediately after eating those extra calories? Once a week? When?

When do you lose the fat? Right when you start eating less calories? Sorry… just confused and wondering

Thanks for your responses

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Answer 1

You have fat cells that will store fat. Over time, all throughout the day, your body is breaking down fat, sugar, proteins from your muscles and calcium from your bones. Your body uses these body parts like bones and muscle as a nutrient dump. All day long the body makes a chemical that breaks the proteins in your muscle down and proteins are released. Theres another chemical that adds protein to the muscles and every twenty minutes or so your body is releasing one and then the other and so what this means is your body can take from its fat stores and add to them throughout the day as needed. Same with minerals in the bones and proteins in the muscles.

If you were eating more fats than your body could burn it would slowly begin storing more fatty acids in the fat or adipose cells. Then, you would notice yourself getting bigger at some point. Some people, the slim skinny ones, don’t store a lot of fat in their adipose cells and so it may go elsewhere like the organs or muscles.

If you were using more fats then you could store, over time the fat or adipose cells would release more fat then they take in. And over time every twenty minutes or so a tiny bit of fat is broken down and then a tiny amount is put back and if you burn fat over long periods of time more fat will be release from the cells than is put in and they will shrink in size.