Basically as the title says. If I’m already obese right, why does my stomach still feel hungry when it has “food at home” aka an excess stored up as fat. Why would it not just utilize the energy that is already there and then when it gets to a certain body fat percentage become hungry again at that point? Why does the body just continue to store up fat to an uncomfortable and unhealthy point and keeps asking for more food when there is already so much available to it?
UPDATE: Thank you everyone for your responses. There are lots of great explanations and viewpoints here 😊.
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Fat is emergency rations. There’s no point in using up the emergency supply before eating the food in front of us just for the food to rot and being unable to find more.
Before modern times, food scarcity was an inevitability, so our bodies evolved to deal with it. That means eating what we have available and storing the extra as fat to be used for future starvation.
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