Wow… this whole Precision Nutrition (PN) site is amazing… I love it. I’m finding out so many useful pieces of information! I’m sure I shouldn’t be sharing them all here, but since not many people know about this site, I hope I’ll be fine 
Something I found fascinating – and pretty disgusting too – is the fact that fat stores toxins. When you eat, if that food has toxins in it and it’s converted to fat, those toxins will be released into your body. When you burn fat, those toxins are released into your bloodstream again.
This has some really important implications:
First off, it’s important to detox when you’re losing fat… because all these toxins are being released into your bloodstream. Since some people hold fat for many, many years, those toxins could’ve been stored away 10, 20, 30 years ago, if they’re fatty deposits you haven’t ever utilized.
They discovered something interesting when they did some research back in the 90s… some middle-aged people, after doing fat loss, had toxins in their bloodstream from 20 years before, that hadn’t been seen for such a long time! That’s incredible!
Given my goal of getting down to the lowest level of fat I’ve ever been at, some of this fat may be aged at more than 15 years! And I certainly wasn’t eating very well 15 years ago (ok, I was just a kid, but still)… So there are all these toxins being released into my body right now – and that could also go some way to explaining why I’m getting some breakouts on my skin right now. I’m eating healthy, with tonnes of multi-vitamins and minerals… which should support an excellent internal environment, and stop spots. But – given that I have all these toxins potentially coming out of the fact, that’s explaining things! There’s stuff in there that would – most certainly activate my spots – because they were causing them way back when!
On a separate note – and this is also interesting – just as we have muscle memory, it seems like we might have fat loss memory too (even though there’s no evidence to support it). If we train our bodies to lose weight, then each time we do it continuously, it becomes easier and easier. That’s the theory. Given that I’m about as skinny as I’ve probably ever been (well – that’s kind of a lie – I was skinnier in my last semester of University), it’s now starting to get tougher to get rid of this remaining weight. We’ll see.