Meaning: You need carbs to do the work that will burn the fat. Carbs provide the fuel that fires your muscles and metabolism. But if you don't do the work then you will stay fat and get fatter.
Sleep, Core, Hiit/speedwork and eating more protein and less carbs. That’s it. Nothing else you do will change that. Harvard.edu had a study on fat isolation and nothing else had significant influence on stomach/glute fat if you are an endurance athlete.
Meaning: You need carbs to do the work that will burn the fat. Carbs provide the fuel that fires your muscles and metabolism. But if you don't do the work then you will stay fat and get fatter.
Another old Indian saying is “carbs are critical for buffing up muscle glycogen reserves”.
Its all about your insulin. Here's my understanding of it - when you spike your insulin, your body goes into storage/building mode. When this happens, it shuts down the fat burning process. There's no need to burn fat, plenty of glycogen is available. So you eat carbs, store some of them as glycogen and convert the rest to fat. If you are overeating (easy to do with carbs), you end up storing more than you use. If you do this several times a day, your body has no reason to ever burn fat for fuel. Repeat this process for years and you will put on pounds. Once you hit middle age and your metabolism slows down, it only gets worse. Next thing you know you put on 15lbs and none of it is muscle, because you are a runner. End result - skinny fat.
To correct that, you have to give your body a reason to use stored fat. To do that you need to burn more than you consume, obviously. But you also need to take insulin out of the equation. That let's your body know it needs to use stored fat for fuel. Carbs have the largest effect on insulin, protein has some effect (but you need to eat a ton of it), and fat has no effect on insulin. This is why people are telling you to eat more meat and fat.
I'm not saying you need to cut out all carbs, but I am saying you probably should eat 50% of what you are, and they should be timed around when you need them - ie - before a workout. You simply do not need carbs to sit on your couch. An added benefit of eating more protein and fat is that its very hard to overeat. I challenge you to over eat chicken breast, eggs, steak, even bacon, its impossible. Overeating ice cream is incredibly easy.
Its all about your insulin. Here's my understanding of it - when you spike your insulin, your body goes into storage/building mode. When this happens, it shuts down the fat burning process. There's no need to burn fat, plenty of glycogen is available. So you eat carbs, store some of them as glycogen and convert the rest to fat. If you are overeating (easy to do with carbs), you end up storing more than you use. If you do this several times a day, your body has no reason to ever burn fat for fuel. Repeat this process for years and you will put on pounds. Once you hit middle age and your metabolism slows down, it only gets worse. Next thing you know you put on 15lbs and none of it is muscle, because you are a runner. End result - skinny fat.
To correct that, you have to give your body a reason to use stored fat. To do that you need to burn more than you consume, obviously. But you also need to take insulin out of the equation. That let's your body know it needs to use stored fat for fuel. Carbs have the largest effect on insulin, protein has some effect (but you need to eat a ton of it), and fat has no effect on insulin. This is why people are telling you to eat more meat and fat.
I'm not saying you need to cut out all carbs, but I am saying you probably should eat 50% of what you are, and they should be timed around when you need them - ie - before a workout. You simply do not need carbs to sit on your couch. An added benefit of eating more protein and fat is that its very hard to overeat. I challenge you to over eat chicken breast, eggs, steak, even bacon, its impossible. Overeating ice cream is incredibly easy.
Lots of mistakes above:
1) Insulin spiking and falling back is part of normal metabolic process, not something evil.
2) Fat and carbs can both make you fat in caloric excess, and if you really had to pick the worse one, it’s fat that makes you fatter.
3) The body will never “shut down the fat burning process”. The closest you come to minimizing fat/carb burning ratio is when you are running entirely anaerobically which simply can’t be sustained for long.
4) Metabolism does slow down with age but metabolism is irrelevant for weight coz more metabolism is just an inefficient body that will burn more and feel hungrier more making you eat more, all else being equal, so you could use “metabolism” to equally well argue it should make you gain weight or have no effect at all.
There is no health reason for avoiding carbs or minimizing carbs, just a matter of personal preference if you feel reducing carbs makes you feel more satiated with fewer calories.
Its all about your insulin. Here's my understanding of it - when you spike your insulin, your body goes into storage/building mode. When this happens, it shuts down the fat burning process. There's no need to burn fat, plenty of glycogen is available. So you eat carbs, store some of them as glycogen and convert the rest to fat. If you are overeating (easy to do with carbs), you end up storing more than you use. If you do this several times a day, your body has no reason to ever burn fat for fuel. Repeat this process for years and you will put on pounds. Once you hit middle age and your metabolism slows down, it only gets worse. Next thing you know you put on 15lbs and none of it is muscle, because you are a runner. End result - skinny fat.
To correct that, you have to give your body a reason to use stored fat. To do that you need to burn more than you consume, obviously. But you also need to take insulin out of the equation. That let's your body know it needs to use stored fat for fuel. Carbs have the largest effect on insulin, protein has some effect (but you need to eat a ton of it), and fat has no effect on insulin. This is why people are telling you to eat more meat and fat.
I'm not saying you need to cut out all carbs, but I am saying you probably should eat 50% of what you are, and they should be timed around when you need them - ie - before a workout. You simply do not need carbs to sit on your couch. An added benefit of eating more protein and fat is that its very hard to overeat. I challenge you to over eat chicken breast, eggs, steak, even bacon, its impossible. Overeating ice cream is incredibly easy.
Its all about your insulin. Here's my understanding of it - when you spike your insulin, your body goes into storage/building mode. When this happens, it shuts down the fat burning process. There's no need to burn fat, plenty of glycogen is available. So you eat carbs, store some of them as glycogen and convert the rest to fat. If you are overeating (easy to do with carbs), you end up storing more than you use. If you do this several times a day, your body has no reason to ever burn fat for fuel. Repeat this process for years and you will put on pounds. Once you hit middle age and your metabolism slows down, it only gets worse. Next thing you know you put on 15lbs and none of it is muscle, because you are a runner. End result - skinny fat.
To correct that, you have to give your body a reason to use stored fat. To do that you need to burn more than you consume, obviously. But you also need to take insulin out of the equation. That let's your body know it needs to use stored fat for fuel. Carbs have the largest effect on insulin, protein has some effect (but you need to eat a ton of it), and fat has no effect on insulin. This is why people are telling you to eat more meat and fat.
I'm not saying you need to cut out all carbs, but I am saying you probably should eat 50% of what you are, and they should be timed around when you need them - ie - before a workout. You simply do not need carbs to sit on your couch. An added benefit of eating more protein and fat is that its very hard to overeat. I challenge you to over eat chicken breast, eggs, steak, even bacon, its impossible. Overeating ice cream is incredibly easy.
Lots of mistakes above:
1) Insulin spiking and falling back is part of normal metabolic process, not something evil.
2) Fat and carbs can both make you fat in caloric excess, and if you really had to pick the worse one, it’s fat that makes you fatter.
3) The body will never “shut down the fat burning process”. The closest you come to minimizing fat/carb burning ratio is when you are running entirely anaerobically which simply can’t be sustained for long.
4) Metabolism does slow down with age but metabolism is irrelevant for weight coz more metabolism is just an inefficient body that will burn more and feel hungrier more making you eat more, all else being equal, so you could use “metabolism” to equally well argue it should make you gain weight or have no effect at all.
There is no health reason for avoiding carbs or minimizing carbs, just a matter of personal preference if you feel reducing carbs makes you feel more satiated with fewer calories.
Its all about your insulin. Here's my understanding of it - when you spike your insulin, your body goes into storage/building mode. When this happens, it shuts down the fat burning process. There's no need to burn fat, plenty of glycogen is available. So you eat carbs, store some of them as glycogen and convert the rest to fat. If you are overeating (easy to do with carbs), you end up storing more than you use. If you do this several times a day, your body has no reason to ever burn fat for fuel. Repeat this process for years and you will put on pounds. Once you hit middle age and your metabolism slows down, it only gets worse. Next thing you know you put on 15lbs and none of it is muscle, because you are a runner. End result - skinny fat.
To correct that, you have to give your body a reason to use stored fat. To do that you need to burn more than you consume, obviously. But you also need to take insulin out of the equation. That let's your body know it needs to use stored fat for fuel. Carbs have the largest effect on insulin, protein has some effect (but you need to eat a ton of it), and fat has no effect on insulin. This is why people are telling you to eat more meat and fat.
I'm not saying you need to cut out all carbs, but I am saying you probably should eat 50% of what you are, and they should be timed around when you need them - ie - before a workout. You simply do not need carbs to sit on your couch. An added benefit of eating more protein and fat is that its very hard to overeat. I challenge you to over eat chicken breast, eggs, steak, even bacon, its impossible. Overeating ice cream is incredibly easy.
Lots of mistakes above:
1) Insulin spiking and falling back is part of normal metabolic process, not something evil.
2) Fat and carbs can both make you fat in caloric excess, and if you really had to pick the worse one, it’s fat that makes you fatter.
3) The body will never “shut down the fat burning process”. The closest you come to minimizing fat/carb burning ratio is when you are running entirely anaerobically which simply can’t be sustained for long.
4) Metabolism does slow down with age but metabolism is irrelevant for weight coz more metabolism is just an inefficient body that will burn more and feel hungrier more making you eat more, all else being equal, so you could use “metabolism” to equally well argue it should make you gain weight or have no effect at all.
There is no health reason for avoiding carbs or minimizing carbs, just a matter of personal preference if you feel reducing carbs makes you feel more satiated with fewer calories.
1. In a normal scenario, no, it isn't. But we are talking about specifically trying to lose fat.
2. Fat is more satiating than carbs, therefore you eat less on whole. Making it easier to not eat as much. This is a matter of preference though.
3. Maybe its not absolute, but its pretty close. Its hard to burn fat reserves in the presence of insulin. See below, and the references if you don't trust wikipedia.
Lipolysis is the metabolic pathway through which lipid triglycerides are hydrolyzed into a glycerol and free fatty acids. It is used to mobilize stored energy during fasting or exercise, and usually occurs in fat adipocytes....
4. of course metabolism is relevant. its literally how many calories you burn. If you eat the same, but burn less, you will gain fat.
I do agree with you, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Personally, I ate high carb and ran a lot for 25 years, skinny fat the whole time. In the past 5 years, its gotten worse and worse. Same diet, same exercise pattern. Overestimate how many calories you are buring while running and replenishing with too many carbs will do that. Now, I eat more fat/protein now and am more lean than I was in high school. My experience is its far easier to limit energy intake when you eat more fat and protein - you just aren't hungry. Do what works for you though, that's what's important. Just sharing my experience and limited knowledge.
1) Insulin spiking and falling back is part of normal metabolic process, not something evil.
2) Fat and carbs can both make you fat in caloric excess, and if you really had to pick the worse one, it’s fat that makes you fatter.
3) The body will never “shut down the fat burning process”. The closest you come to minimizing fat/carb burning ratio is when you are running entirely anaerobically which simply can’t be sustained for long.
4) Metabolism does slow down with age but metabolism is irrelevant for weight coz more metabolism is just an inefficient body that will burn more and feel hungrier more making you eat more, all else being equal, so you could use “metabolism” to equally well argue it should make you gain weight or have no effect at all.
There is no health reason for avoiding carbs or minimizing carbs, just a matter of personal preference if you feel reducing carbs makes you feel more satiated with fewer calories.
4. of course metabolism is relevant. its literally how many calories you burn. If you eat the same, but burn less, you will gain fat.
Of course, metabolism is irrelevant for the reason I already explained. If you burn more and eat more as most people would be inclined to, all else being equal, you won’t gain anything.
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