Why do you regain the weight lost after being ill?

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Let’s say you have the flu and you lose 10 lbs over a week or so due to not being able to eat much. Why do you regain it, especially if you’re eating under maintenance/in a deficit normally?

It can’t all be water if you don’t eat for a week right? That’s a huge deficit.

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You’ve essentially stretched your fat cells, so they want to be full again. Once capable, they fill back up to capacity. It takes diet and activity to prevent that from happening.

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