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Comment author: wedrifid 02 June 2013 07:57:40AM *  1 point [-]

If you undergo ketosis your fat cells will be lysed. Anecdotal reports aside, physiologically that must happen unless you are incapable of it (a genetic mutation which would - speculatively - have far-ranging effects).

Why must that happen? Ketosis means that lipolysis is occuring. Lipolysis does not inherently require that fat cells must be lysed as a physiological inevitability. ie. The fat that is to be broken down can itself come from diet instead of the lysing of fat cells.