Did you know that fat weights very little if anything in the body?

when I was hospitalized for my eating problems at a treatment facility that works specifically with eating disorders we had many groups and educational classes and I was amazed at what I found out -

They demonstrated fat weight vs. muscle and ordans and so on by taking a piece of meat with a rim of fat to represent the body and fat cells and weighed that meat at 2 pounds and then had us cut that fat layer off and weight it again. the meat still weighted 2 pounds. then we were told to cut a chunk of the meat out and weight it and the meat weighed less.

Then they told us that restricting food actually causes the body to store all intake of food as pockets of fat cells. The fat cell pockets arent visible all the time but you can feel them by running your hands over the legs arms and so on. they feel like lumps that are a bit harder then the rest of the the surrounding area. The body automatically goes into "survival mode" when food and liquids are not going into the body to keep the body funtioning by storing and rationing the stored food and water. once the fat pockets are gone the body basically takes food and water from the organs and muscles to put in the fat cells for rationing out. Basically at this point the body is eating itself by converting muscle and so on into food in order for the person to continue to live.

I also found out that its eating more that allows the body to lose weight.

We got weighted in and our fat pockets on one area of the body measured and marked with permanent marker then allowed to restrict our food for one week eating however we normally did. at the end of that week we were weighted in. Yea I lost weight but when it came time to measure the fat pockets that were circled and marked Those fat pockets had actually increased.

Then I was put on a normal three meals a day nutricianal plan but that same amount of food was broken up into 6 meals.

at the end of the week I had again lost weight this time double the amount that I lost by restricting my food intake AND the marked fat cell pockets had also decreased both in number and size.

By taking normal nutricianal three meals a day and spitting that amount of food into many meals ate throughout the day the bodys system is tricked into believing that there is now an over abundance of food intake and stops storing anything as fat cells for reserving and rationing to keep the body alive.

So now when I want to lose weight I split the amount of food I would normally eat into more meals scattered throughout the day.

I am 5'1 and weight in at 140 when my weight is that of my physicians weight / height chart.

Right now I weigh 150. by eating more and sticking with my normal walking for one hour a day I lost 10 pounds in the past month. my target weight 145. that way I won't be listed as being anerexic on my medical files - regardless of the reason - health related or actively trying to lose weight a person is medically considered anerexic if their weight falls below one forth the weight of the physicians height and weight chart.