In my experience with dieting and reading about fitness I’ve heard many many times that the first place you gain fat is the last place you lose it. Is that a myth? It sounds like myth to me. If it’s not a myth then the last place you gain fat is the first place you lose it, right?
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This is true, adipose (fat) tissue works on the FILO (FIRST IN, LAST OUT) Principle. Think about it like grocery shelf stocking.
A decently run store will have the first things that come in come out first, because it is best that the product gets sold before it spoils. The body however, does opposite.
Let’s say for the sake of the example a human has 0% body fat. (Theoretically essential fat is between 2-8% for men and women respectively). As soon as body fat starts to accumulate, depending on where the individual reserves it first, it will continue to accumulate throughout the body in a wrapping pattern where it will obviously wrap around the body thicker (belly/hips typically ) and thin out more on other areas (ankles/fingers typically). Like a paper towel roll except with a belly, hips etc.
When the wrapping comes off, the last of the wrapping begins to unfurl first, until we are back down to the fat we have to carry around before we basically starve to death.
To take this further, this is why if an individual is already lower body fat, 5-10%, that single sheet of paper around the roll wraps around the roll maybe three times before the next sheet starts to apply. With a full roll of paper, one sheet may only cover 1/3 of the entire roll, instead of wrapping around it 3 times like when it was a much smaller roll.
Hope this helps
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