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1840: Eleven Steps to a Single-Digit Body Fat Percentage

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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Is Your Body Adding Fat Cells?

i was so obsessed with the competitive side at of getting lean and the show and everything, that i actually wasn't thinking about a back up plan. When you get down to single didge of body fat, it's starving. And then when you refeed so much with excessive calories, your body has to adapt by improving its ability to capture calory. The way it does so, and we've observed this now and studies, is it adds the number of fat cells. That means the next time you try to get lean, it's harder. I've seen guys gain 30 pounds in a month from this rebound.

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