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hippy
Can I throw a question out to everyone here.
If fats are such a good part of a weight loss diet plan, sometimes makeing up 1/3 or much more of your daily calorie allowance at the expence of carbs. How come your carrying several stone of fat about without your body being an absolute power house?
Sure you can force your body to use fats as fuel, by denying it carbs and fucking up its normal goto sorce of muscle fuel. Without adequate carbs to keep glycogen up, your body reverts to burning fat but its a slower process... Fucking great your thinking! However to deplete the carbs your treating your body like a first time marathon runner hitting the wall. In a marathon its not the end of the world, because you slow down to the rate where your body can continue processing body fat into usable energy, cross the finish line and stuff your face with everything in site ☺
If your hitting the wall every day then your body will adapt. Your metabolism will drop and your bodies energy requirement will drop! So your carefully calculated 500 calorie defecit diet will not give the same defecit any more. Your now either in a plateau, gaining weight or considering reducing your calories further and completely fucked up, caught in the diet trap.
If your still here, this bit may sound a bit depressing as IN THE SHORT TERM....adding carbs will increase your weight if your refilling your glycogen stores! 😦 sorry.
1 gram of fat gives 9 calories when its digested. It doesnt absorb water, so its just 1 gram.
1gram of carbs only gives 4 calories when digested. However it also binds with 2 grams of water so ends up being 4 calories and 3 grams of weight, so thats over six times heavier for the same amount of energy. YOUR NOT GETTING FAT (unless your eating more calories than your body needs)
All you need is a balanced diet of carbs, protein and fat which gives less total calories than your body requires. If your 500 calories short every day, thats 3500 for the week which must have come from 389 grams of body fat ☺
THATS 1.7Kg IN A MONTH just by a consistent 500 calorie defecit approach and no need to feel shit all the time.
One important thing to remember is when you get lighter you use less daily calories, so you will need to review and reduce your intake to keep the defecit. ITS THAT SIMPLE