Okay- you lost weight, but what actually happened to those fat-storing cells?

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Sources:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/fat-cell3.htm
How fat cells work and why it’s impossible to “burn” them off
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080505/full/news.2008.800.html
http://news.yale.edu/2015/03/02/new-fat-cells-created-quickly-losing-them

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AFat_triglyceride_shorthand_formula.PNG

Do Fat Cells Ever Really Go Away?

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