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Fat is stored throughout the body in fat cells known as adipocytes. The number of adipocytes an individual has is determined by late adolescence and rarely changes during adulthood. However, fat cells can increase and decrease in size depending on the amount of fat that the body is storing.
(Note: remember that carbohydrates yield 4 kcal/gram). Once our glycogen stores are full, any remaining energy intake will be stored as body fat (note: this is oversimplifying things a lot). As opposed to glycogen, with finite storage capacity, body fat stores are essentially limitless. Body fat is stored in cells called adipocytes, which can be located all over the body.