biology

Continuation of Biology Is Not Destiny, Part I

2. Fat Cells = Hungry Baby Sparrows

Beyond genetics, overweight people have many more fat cells than people who have never been overweight. How many more? Overweight people can have four times as many of these hungry creatures (e.g., 160 billion versus 40 billion). Unfortunately, liposuction can only remove a few million of these - barely making a dent because fat is intertwined in our muscles and organs.

I just remember one September night a few months after leaving Wellspring Academy; it was after homecoming or something.  And I was like, ‘If I don't control myself now,  I'm gonna be put back in the same place I was before.'  And things have to change in my life.  And I can't sit here and whine that this is my biology and this is what is meant to be for my life.  I have to be happy that I have the chance to do this.  So I was like, ‘Get over yourself.  Just do it.'  - Vicki M.