Hunger Vs Stored Fats

Hunger isn’t always a signal of shortage. In many cases, it’s a signal of habit.

If you look at the human body the way you’d look at a car, the question becomes simple - "How often does it really need to be refuelled just to keep running?"

On average, the human body stores close to 20 kilos of fat. That translates to roughly 1,80,000 calories of energy already available for use.

And yet, many of us feel hungry every couple of hours.

We plan our day around meals, snacks, tea breaks, and the fear of “low energy.”

This isn’t because the body lacks fuel.

It’s because the body has learned to depend on food as its primary source of fuel.

Over the years, repeated eating, frequent snacking, and constant glucose supply train the body to look outward for energy instead of inward. Fat, which is meant to be a long-term, reliable fuel source, stays locked away.

The goal is not to eat less forever or to live in constant calorie deficits but to teach the body to access its stored fuel again.

When the body becomes comfortable using fat for energy, something changes quietly → Energy becomes steadier, hunger becomes less urgent, and life no longer revolves around the next meal.

As we grow older, this ability doesn’t stay automatic. It needs to be retrained periodically.

That process is called Fat Adaptation. And that flexibility is what Real Metabolic Freedom looks like.

Courtesy: Dr. Malhar Ganla