The key is to
eat enough calories through a variety (to ensure a wide range of nutrient consumption) of whole - foods.
Not exact matches
For athletes, disordered
eating usually means that they are not consuming
enough calories, expending more energy than they are taking in
through their diets and creating a dynamic deficiency in
calories supplied to the body.
Even though you are
eating enough calories to fuel your body physically
through the day, your lack of
calories in terms of fats can simply be too low and so a fatty acid deficiency may result.
For example, if an active person were to
eat in a
calorie - deficit suitable for a very lightly active person, then the body is likely to slow the metabolism and this will result in the body holding onto unwanted fat (or stubborn fat) because it does not think it will receive
enough energy to complete daily tasks
through food consumption.
And so he's seen literally everything come
through the office and he says, «The biggest issue that he sees time and time and time again especially among women is they're not
eating enough calories when they go keto.»
But
eating too many
calories - and not burning
enough of them off
through physical activity - leads to weight gain.