 First question is from able J Flores. It's often said that muscles have memory Can the same be said about fat cells if so? What does that process look like in terms of time if a person has lost a significant amount of fat from a healthy nutrition and Exercise lifestyle you can kind of say this. It's a great question. It is a cool question fat rumors a lot well, I mean so You can make the case for it because how you add fat cells Yeah, so that we should talk about that so but now first off muscle memory is interesting, right? You you build muscle muscle fibers grow you increase the amount of satellite cells that are there muscle then shrinks as you stop working out Satellite cells don't go away. So the build back that muscle the second time around Much faster and it's actually quite crazy It took me such a long time to get my my body mass up to 200 pounds working out as a kid Now if I stop working out dip below 200 pounds, I work out be bad I'd be back up there within a couple months may it took me long long long time now with fat It's interesting right so you gain body fat typically the fat cells grow You lose fat the fat cell shrink the fat the memory of the fat cells. It hasn't been proven like it is with muscle, however Think of the behaviors that we tend to get addicted to or that we tend to get used to when we gain body fat When you lose fat you change those behaviors and this is when people talk about set point like weight set point Yeah, when you lose weight It's very hard to permanently change your behaviors And so you tend to go back to your old behaviors and gain the fat So in that case, I would say there's where the memory is now It's not the same as muscle memory, but I'd say that's where the memories is where if you've eaten a particular way Lived a particular way that makes you weigh 180 pounds. Let's say and then you lose 40 pounds You know within it. Let's say you lose it within a few months It's hard to stay to that new lifestyle because you live for so long the way you did before so that's Probably what's causing to gain the weight back again. Well, not only that every time we we gain the weight back We also add fat cells and they don't disappear when you lose fat They shrink yes, so then the amount of total fat cells and of course It's a lot more than a hundred but pretend you have a hundred you are you and then you lean down They shrink that's what makes you lean down and look that way, right? But they're still there Then you let's say you fall off the wagon you go back you blow back up you add 30 pounds now you add 20 more fat cells now you go, okay. I'm back on the wagon you drop down again You still have a hundred and twenty now this this really Now there's studies that show that this happens, but really it won't so far when you extreme diet Yes, it's when you go when you diet down real hard and then you in you go way opposite direction Which don't I would make the case that majority of people do well So especially people who compete in like bodybuilding or bikini because they'll do this 12 or 14 or 16 week crash diet Yes, a lot of people that will lose hundred pounds because they're really just like starving themselves. Yes from these like fad things Yeah, so to use the example of the competitor you go 16 week diet You get super shredded for your show your bikini competition And then you're done with your competition and you gain back 20 or 30 pounds within a matter of weeks By the way, I'm not making this up I've seen this with my own eyes people literally gain women who hit the stage at 115 pounds Gain 20 something pounds in a month or two. Okay, so that fast Weight gain what your body does is it adds fat cells and the theory is that your body's trying to figure out a way to Capture more this energy right you dropped your calories your metabolism probably crashed now You're eating like crazy. You're doing all the cheat meals and your body's like I need to figure out a way to be more efficient at capturing all this energy aggressively responds because it thinks it's infamant Yeah, so you add fat cells to your body you do that enough times And this is why competitors will find that it's harder to get sharp for each show like oh man It was so easy for me to get super ripped and look really good But now I've done five shows in the last you know year and each time it gets harder and harder I don't know what's going on you might be adding fat cells to your body And like Adam said they probably don't go away So you add a bunch of fat cells and now it's way harder to get lean the second time around and that's from that extreme You know cycle so if you're listening and you do the cut in the bulk But it really it looks more like a crash diet and then extreme bulk you might be doing that to yourself I think a majority people do I think it's it's more common than it is the other way where somebody is really good about Oh, they lost the weight and then they've slowly Let weight comes back with it comes back with a fury because most people crash diet most people go on some Radical new change. I'm gonna try the carnivore diet this month or I'm gonna try the vegan diet this month They reduce calories Significantly they run it for a month two months maybe even three or longer and then they go fuck this I'm going back to what I was doing before and when they go back to doing it before It's always way more it takes way more discipline totally slow. Yes. Yeah. Yeah That's that that is such a mental block that a lot of people just well I just want to go like because when you have that motivation you want to go and get to your destination as quick as possible And so a lot of people just make these compromises and they get to that place But they didn't do it in a healthy way that's gonna last I would make the case that there's less Competitors this happens to than actual average people because at least some competitors are privy to this Not all of them know but I mean if you follow like a Lane Norton who has been touting this for a long time You're aware of this and it's become more popular to you know reverse diverse diet and that that reverse dieting Concept has come from the competing World that's not in the average the average person does not talk about reverse dieting the average person does not Lean all the way out and then go and get shredded and go. Oh, I need to slowly reverse back No, it's the it's and this is a psychological phenomena, right? It's the all-or-nothing approach and it's it's like this we've all experienced this right I'm on a diet and the diet says I can't eat carbs. Let's just say I came on keto diet I can't eat carbs, so I follow that for a while I lose weight because cutting my carbs has cut my calories and now I'm down 30 pounds and then I you know I go on a weekend or I go on a vacation and I see no what I'm gonna have a little bit of carbs But now because I've had carbs. I'm off the diet I'm off keto and then it's like the floodgates are open Yeah, it's it's not like I'm gonna have a little bit of carbs and then go back to where I was before It's like I've already broken the rule. I've already stepped over the line. I might as well go nuts So when I've trained people or you know who've done these types of diets, they almost never gain way back slow It's always as quick well weight gain There's another part to that that this is what I have to talk to clients a lot is you got to be very careful because The day after and even the couple days after the all these extra calories Don't seem to make a bad effect on your body, right? Yeah, at first you go, holy shit I drank last night and I had Jack in the box and I woke up and I look better today than I did yesterday That happens huge this happens right because you're on it You've been on it with the science behind what's going on is your glycogen levels are so depleted So your muscle bellies are that flat look so you've sucked out all the the the carbohydrates in there And because you're so low calorie water. Yeah, and water and then all sudden you sodium goes up carbs go up Calories go up it fills all the muscle bellies up first before it gets over over spilled into storing body fat It actually fills you out So then you actually look better for a day or two and that Psychologically messes up a lot of clients because they go oh shit I can get away with this and before you know what they're two three weeks deep into overconsuming even this often times Especially with drinking you'll drink and then the next day you'll wake up lighter Yeah, dehydrated dehydrated and by the way your body doesn't just produce body fat on your body Instantaneously it takes like a week. Yeah, so oftentimes the weight gain happens a few days later, right? But we look at the next day we weigh ourselves on the scale totally