Why not when we are fat?

At night time for some reason, philosophical me comes alive. One night during one of my philosophical outbursts I had a Eureka moment, well what I thought was a Eureka moment anyway.  OK, here goes, here is my thought. When people are trying to lose weight, dieting, dropping a few pounds or in my case a few stone, they reach a certain weight and hit a plateau. For all you wonderfully thin, shapely and conscious free people, a plateau is an evening out of your weight. It becomes harder to lose anymore poundage even though you are still following a diet and combining this with a certain amount of exercise. This is the point that many men and women become despondent and disillusioned and find they start to lose grasp of their weight control. Has anyone ever thought that this is probably the weight you are meant to be, genetically?

Anyway back to my original thought. Perhaps a bit of a selfish, wishful thought it may be, but why don’t we reach this plateau when we are overweight? Why does a fat person never stop putting on weight? It doesn’t slow down like it does when you lose weight. It can take a person three weeks to lose two pound off their gluteus maximus but it can take an overweight persona week to gain four pound or in my case the time it takes to look at a pasty then look away.      

Another example is Yo-Yo dieters and before I continue I by no means condone or recommend this. When a Yo-Yo dieter loses weight they reach their plateau, get the disappointed feeling and the weight slowly but surely starts to creep back on. Then ‘BOOM’ they have put on double what they lost over a shorter time period. I would bet my bottom dollar; pardon the pun, when they diet again they will not lose double the amount they put on. It is going to take twice the willpower, twice the blood, sweat and tears and twice the amount of exercise, if not our weight creeps up and up and up with no sign of a fat plateau.

What I discovered was that ‘thin’ plateau is Mother Nature’s way of protecting us. Our bodies realise we are not eating as much and we are not taking in as many calories, so therefore we store fat so we do not starve. Getting back to my so called ‘fat’ plateau, according to body building experts on Askmen.com, we can gain and reach a plateau but only by gaining muscle not fat. You can go on gaining and gaining fat right up until you burst. So those of us with the fuller figure and are partial to a little chocolate, we are doomed from the beginning, unless we can sort out our willpower.

So the conclusion is, Mother Nature protects our bodies when we become smaller than normal by storing our fat, but all of us fatties can go on to suffer from diabetes, heart disease, unsightly cellulite and stretch marks and mother nature turns a blind eye. Is this our punishment for eating one too many Maccy D’s or is it a kick up the backside in disguise?

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