If fat is stores of energy, then why aren’t fat people more energetic than skinny people?
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Think of being fat like carrying around a backpack full of cans of food. In case of emergency, you can open the backpack, and take out a can, and use that to eat. But in the mean time, you have a heavy backpack that you have to take with you everywhere, and it weighs you down.
So this is a broad generalization as there are people with stores of belly fat who are energetic and active and also individuals who lack those same fat stores and are lethargic.
Nevertheless, I’m going to take a shot at this question. People with large stores of fat get those fat stores mostly by not being active. You’re looking at the process backwards.
They don’t have the fat in order to be more active later; they got fat by not being active now.
They’re long-term stores that can’t be quickly and readily transformed from fat back to energy. Pretty much the body is trading having easy access for having access to more reserves.
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