Fat cell fitness is an issue of immense importance. As a person gains weight fat cells expand in size and replicate, and their metabolism becomes sluggish. Problems are aggravated by high stress. Within cellulite not only are the fat cells expanding in size, they are being knocked into irregular shapes.

Fat cells naturally fill up with triglycerides when they expand in size. A triglyceride is a small droplet composed of three fatty acids linked together with one sugar, an efficient way to store calories. Fat cells release triglycerides to use as fuel under the right set of circumstances (which is also how weight is lost).