How many calories does one have to eat in a day to maintain being 600+ lbs, and how is it that your body doesn’t just burn it off as your metabolism speeds up?
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1) Maintaining weight above 600lbs is painfully easy for some people. Often, I don’t find their diet much different to my own!
However, genetics and health conditions can play a large role! Example, there is an indian tribe that tends to put on weight for the winter, despite all the modern conveniences of home these days! Evolution can often backfire with rapid changes. Additionally, daily work and habits plays a role. Such as an office or desk job compared with many Construction and Maintenance jobs. Also should consider any extra walking, fidgeting, or exercise to burn more energy and keep in shape.
In the end, being bigger can burn more calories due to simply moving that weight around and maintaining. However, it also can have a tendency to naturally store extra energy or some deeper health issue that makes it much harder to use it efficiently.
2) The body is very practical in its use of energy. It uses the easiest fast sources first, such as what’s already stored up, are muscles, and what’s currently available from our digestive system. Fat is unfortunately much harder to convert into energy, and even with lots of effort. It can remain partially as a reminder that you were once bigger. Which makes liposuction appealing for the many affected by bad genetics and sometimes just poor decisions catching up to them as adults.
Links
* [health.gov – 2020 dietary guidelines](https://health.gov/our-work/food-nutrition/2015-2020-dietary-guidelines/guidelines/appendix-2/) – Men: 2,000-3,000, Women: 1,600 – 2,400
* [Genetics and Nutrition](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218767/) – Different tastes leads to different diets
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