Really.. all this fat...

[jammin]

Ive been on so many diet in my day, that is difficult for me to eat all this fat without feeling guilty. I understand that my body is burning my body fat for energy but what the heck is it doing with all this dietary fat? Am i just storing it again?

I dont knock this diet because its cleary working. Im just wondering what happening with all this fat i am eating ???????????????????/

Thanks For Your Responses

Jay

[TyCowboy]

Re: Really.. all this fat...

The idea, in a nutshell (and I will add the disclaimer that I'm not a scientist), is that a gram of fat has nearly 3 times the amount of energy (calories) than does a gram of carbohydrate or protein. The difficulty is that fat is much more difficult (read that as more calories are consumed in the manufacture of energy from fat) than is glucose (sugar). So when we move from a primarily carbohydrate burning metabolism to a predominately fat burning metabolism, the fat that we consume is not necessarily enough to fuel our existence, so, in the absence of a large amount of carbohydrate stores, the body begins to burn the fat which is stored up.



Really, that's the purpose of fat. The funny thing, honestly, about the body is that all calories consumed in excess of metabolic need (be they fats, proteins, or carbohydrates) will ulitmately be stored as fat. We have become fat-phobic, but the reality is that we errored in moving too far the other direction. Fat is not the enemy, excess is...as in excess calories, excess refined sugar, excess...well, fill in the blank.

So to answer the question, no the fat you eat is being consumed by the body, along with fat which is in your body. Your body's consumption of calories goes up because it burns more in order to create energy from fat, and since it has no sugar to draw from, it uses stored fat.

Someone correct me if my science is wrong, but that's my understanding anyhow.

[jammin]

Re: Really.. all this fat...

yeah that makes sense, and i did some more research, i guess the dietary fat we comsume cannot be stored unless insulin is present. So storage of said fat is difficult without carbs. Win win.

Thanks for the info

[liv]

Re: Really.. all this fat...

Win win is right
We are not what we eat... we are what the body chose to store of what we eat. So cutting down carbs is great.

Great question