eli5: why is gaining weight so easy but losing weight so hard

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eli5: why is gaining weight so easy but losing weight so hard

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Our body evolved to gain weight, it didn’t evolve to lose weight. We now live in a time where food is vastly more abundant than we evolved for.

So we eat way more than we need, along with the types of foods we eat. Way more carbs and sugar than would have ever been naturally available to us. And like I said before, we evolved to store as much of that energy as possible, so we wouldnt die, when we couldn’t find food.