Then I must have expressed myself very sloppily because I meant to say the same thing all alongBut you're making it all about semantics and seem to lose focus on the whole priming thing. You said that after dieting down, the body is primed for a state of mostly lean gains, while I said it's primed to put the fat back on. You can't honestly mean to say that it's NOT a negative to once have been "fat", or rather, "non-lean", and then overfeed, as opposed to a person who's never been "non-lean"? "dieted individuals typically show a biology that is absolutely not geared towards anything except packing the body fat back on. Typically, the metabolic consequences of dieting include a lowered metabolism, decreased fat oxidation, decreased HSL activity, increased LPL activity impaired hormonal status (including lowered testosterone and raised cortisol), decreased thermogenesis from a reduction in both thyroid levels and nervous system output and a host of other metabolic defects. All of these serve to both slow fat loss during the diet and ensure rapid fat regain when food is reintroduced."