@IS2SPICY4U wrote:
My two cents... I was on a similar state when I started making changes in my life three months ago. I noticed that once I started exersicing and keeping track of In vs. Out regarding calories, I lost 15 lbs from 4/28 to 7/18. I started at 256 and I am at 241. However, my "beer gut" was still somewhat there, although sagging a little bit.Since I was doing cardio and wieght training I started to tone just a bit, however I hit a rut. I was not burning fat and by the time my next workout came (every other day) my muscles had "deflated" and did not see any tangible changes. Untill I learned about our metabolism. As it turns out, our body was designed to burn fat. However, due to the culture we live in, all we eat is process foods and refined sugars. Thus our bodies have adjusted to burn sugar instead of fat. And as we continue to eat "healthy" we provide our body with more sugars in the form of carbs. Since our body is used to burn sugar at this point, it will utilize anything it can find to turn int into sugar for fuel. Thus the carbs that you eat, will be turn into sugar for fuel and the rest into fat to "save for later". The problem is that, again, due to the food we eat, we continue to provide our body with sugar and we never let it access the fat stores for fuel to revert the process. What I have learned is that we need to reverse this vicious cycle. And the only way to do this is to re-train our bodies to be the fat burning machines that they are by minimizing or eliminating our sugar/carb comsuption. I could not believe it myself either, fatty foods do not make you fat! I couldn't belive it!!! As long as you excersice and re-train your body to burn fat, you can eat that burger pattie with cheese and still burn fat as you sleep. Amazing!. Notice that I left the bread bun out of that statement??. Please, do not take my word for it. I advise you to check www.mercola.com. All of the details and scientific research is there. This is not a new fad, nor a diet. Is a lifestyle change for your own good. Since I started with some adjustments in my diet after reading the information on that website, I can already tell/feel that I am burning fat. And that was just last week! I have not wighted myself again, as I have a habit of doing once a week, but the way I feel tells me that I am in the right track. Time will tell.
Hey, he made the list of biggest quacks, alright.
http://www.alternet.org/print/personal-health/four-biggest-quacks-plaguing-america-their-bad-claims-...
Our body at lower levels of intensity is indeed designed to burn fat - and guess what it still does up until you can't take in enough oxygen to support that oxidation? Burn fat, with carbs being mixed in more and more as intensity increases and enough available oxygen goes down.
You sitting there reading the screen possibly upset with my response are burning almost total fat for the muscle and most organs, except brain using blood sugar for power.
Start shaking your fist at the screen vigorously and perhaps a few more carbs there are used.
Your diet isn't changing those facts unless you've just eaten.
In which case what you just ate is used as energy source, and carbs refills liver and muscle stores, and when that is done (and in a diet it's done before they are filled) your blood sugar drops and fat burning is back to normal, except earlier than otherwise while in a diet. Hence increased fat burn in a diet.
But that is ALL carbs - you just eat fruit and vegetables and that doesn't change, it's all glucose once digested anyway with same response.
And guess what else kicks off the insulin response to cause the above effects - protein!
You eat a straight protein and fat meal and the same insulin will go up - unused protein will be converted to glucose, and now the same process is happening. And indeed, you can eat too much protein, and after topping off glycogen stores once converted, that glucose will be converted to fat. Again, in actual diet eating less than you burn that won't happen.
And your exercise isn't going to retrain your body what to burn as fuel. Your level of intensity will determine that. And you getting fitter will allow more fat to be burned at higher intensity levels.
But that's true no matter what the diet is.
That guy really is a quack with his take on human physiology that goes against all studies of human metabolism and fuel oxidation.
If you just massively dropped your carb intake, you just massively dropped your glycogen stores in muscles, along with attached water. That's the same big weight loss everyone gets starting a diet, just bigger with less carbs.
And as soon as you eat more carbs, or more food in general and more protein is converted to carbs, that fast water weight will come right back.
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