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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To a caveman’s body, fat = emergency supplies. The body gets hungry and looks for new food rather than eat the fat for the same reason a man with three months’ emergency food in his cabin that might get snowed in buys groceries when he visits the cabin. Emergency supplies are for when there is no other food, not for a snack.
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