but your body tends to replace them in the same places and in similar amounts unless your habits change.
This is a huge reason why weight regain is so common after weight loss. When weight is lost fast without changing daily behaviors, the body isn’t “reset” — it’s just temporarily smaller. The fat cells shrink, but the program that created them stays intact. When old habits creep back in, the body simply refills what it already knows how to store.
That’s why real success isn’t just about losing weight — it’s about teaching your body a new normal. New eating patterns. New movement habits. New responses to stress and boredom. Do that, and when the body rebuilds itself, it doesn’t rebuild the old version.
Weight loss changes the size of the container.
Habit change changes the blueprint.