Townsend, Montana | doathlon - 1/1/2025 19:45
Once again, ill reiterate, its calories burned vs calories eaten. This isn't complicated but you've been brainwashed to think it is. I have a degree in kinesiology and nutrition. in other words I know more about it than RFK who is an ambulance chaser.
I shouldn't even bother to answer as it appears that your mind is made up but I never could leave well enough alone.
The "calories in vs calories burned" seemed like it made sense back in the day. Then I read about this hormone called insulin, and how it affects things like glucose metabolism and fat storage and fat burning.
When insulin levels are low (typically caused by a lack of carbohydrates in the diet or type 1 diabetes) it is impossible for our bodies to store fat, regardless of calorie intake. This is a widely known fact for type 1 diabetics. With low levels of insulin, the body will not store fat.
When insulin levels are elevated, the body will metabolize the glucose in the blood and will not burn fat for energy. Any excess energy will be stored as fat.
I suspect that you will agree that insulin levels must go down to burn fat. Lots of ways to accomplish this. Calorie reduction will. Strenuous exercise will. Both of which make you hungry which makes calorie reduction difficult for most people to sustain for enough time to make a difference.
But there is another way. Limit your carbs but eat as many calories as your heart/stomach desires. I'm not claiming it's healthy or the end all be all but it is a fact that severely carb restricted diets that contain enough fat (so the body doesn't start turning protein into glucose which will in turn raise insulin) will keep insulin levels low and will cause the body to burn excess fat, regardless of calorie intake.
In other words, it's not calories in vs calories burned, it's calories in vs calories out. Lots of calories can and will go out via fecal matter and urine. We just have to figure out how to make our bodies handle the calories the way we want them to.
For me, I like eating a lot and I like peeing out the excess calories instead of storing them as fat. So I eat in a way that allows my body to do so.
Edited by 1972RedNeck 1/1/2025 21:05
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