Fat doesn't just show up one day, hang out and keep to itself. Fat loves to be kept company by more fat. The more fat you allow to come in, the harder it will be to stop more fat from coming to hang out.
According to Men's Health, here's why.
Your BMR- basal (resting) metabolic rate- accounts for the majority of the calories you burn every day. It's determined by a number of factors: your age, sex, height and your bodies ratio of fat to muscle.
Fat slows down your calorie burn. Fat is lazy on a metabolic level: It burns barely any calories at all. For your body to support a pound of fat, it needs to burn about 2 calories a day. But 1 pound of skeletal muscle burns 3 times as many calories a day just to sustain itself. Of course the more calories you burn, the more fat you lose. And that's why Fat hates Muscle- because Muscle is constantly burning it off.
To fight back fats tries to break down muscle. The main fat involved is called visceral fat. This type of fat hangs out behind your abdominal muscles and surrounds your internal organs. This fat releases compounds that raise your risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and high blood sugar. This fat also messes with a hormone called adiponectin that helps regulate your metabolism. The more fat you have, the less of this hormone you have which makes your metabolism slower. A study from the Journal of Applied Physiology showed that active molecules that are released from visceral fat can degrade muscle quality- which leads to more fat. This gives that nasty fat a whole lot of hang out partners: MORE FAT!
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