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stuff myself with carbs, but all that got me was feeling like absolute shit from low blood sugar
Does Not Compute.
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Totally does if you overproduce insulin in reaction.
Got given a diabetes test where they make you drink a shitload of sugar in 3 minutes and take your blood at regular intervals: Diabetes, blood sugar too high. My curve: Drops too fast.
It's not unhealthy, just means scoffing sugar gels, easy digestible carbs and so on is not for me. This is somewhat unusual though, I don't think many people have this.
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what's the question.
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?
Hopefully getting people to think and question the likes of Atkins diets and LCHF.
Fat is a fuel, like any other
Your right, it is and we are all carrying a shed load of it. Even at 10%BF that's 7kg for me which is 63,000 calories of stored energy.
Whilst dietting for weight loss, stop think of fat as a fuel as you have plenty of it. Think of it as a nutrient carrier. You only need the fatty acids and vitamins contained in the fat, not the fuck tonne of calories... and you don't need masses to get those vitamins and acids 🤔
JWestland
user69121
Because, quite simply:
A diet has to maintainable & suit exercise goals & maintain health. Fat is a fuel, like any other UNTIL you start getting into rather specific goals, like cycling to win races, running to win, very long endurance work at speed.
I can stuff myself with carbs, but all that got me was feeling like absolute shit from low blood sugar when I cycle 80 miles a day with my parents for a week. (hi, high insulin levels)
In my case, I am not an endurance athlete. 140 grams of carbs, for me, is enough to fuel my workouts (which is weights for fat loss atm)
I am also sedentary when not on the bike/in the gym, and if you sit on your hole both fat and carbs are fine as fuel (the brain can use ketones from fat burning)
My blood sugar goes to shit on low fat / high carb diets
This means I don't need to make many amendments to the foods I eat
So my 30P.30C/35% fat is fine, for my goals.
Now, if I were already getting really lean, yes then the fat needs to go more.
But then I need to go and get special chicken sausages and get my shopping from a bodybuilding shop, spend more as free range chicken breast is £££ and I won't be able to fit in legs, use cooking sprays (iron pans need fat to work, anti stick is the work of the fucking devil), and it's all possible but right now, I don't have to. So why make my life hard?
As for wearing yourself out when dieting, YES, absolutely true if you eat the wrong stuff, you will move less, reducing your daily energy expenditure cos you feel like shit, reducing your deficit. So beware, if your diet doesn't work, shift the ratios.