I get that everyone stores/carries fat differently but wouldn’t it be more efficient to have a system where the fat near whatever muscles doing work gets broken down first?
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Your body can’t choose to take fat from one place. It uses fat by releasing hormones to the body that instruct fat cells to start releasing lipids that it can then use for energy.
It is easiest to imagine human body as a big pool with one of those smaller pools connected to it; in which there is bunch of stuff floating in it and water circulates in it all. Now you add a green dye to get it all St.Pattys day themed pool, and ask “Wouldn’t it be more efficient for the water to get coloured on the surface first? Yes it would, but the pool of chemicals with stuff floating on it has no concept of surface. It all just spread in to it.
Also here is an important thing. You body is always and constantly using the fat reserves for energy. It takes equally from your gut, liver and fat tissues all the time to balance the blood levels. Why? Because no individual cell in your body can know the state of your gut or liver, it can only signal “*Hey guys! I need more energy!”* and your body responds by releasing it from where ever it can at that moment. What ever gets the signal first releases. And since your body is a big pool of water, if a child pisses on the one end, it will sooner or later spread everywhere in the body.
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