Sentences with phrase «extra glycogen stores»

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Lower GI foods can also result in higher muscle glycogen levels (storing more carbs in the muscle), and less chance of storing the extra glucose as fat.

We can make carbohydrate (from protein), and can store some extra as glycogen.

But if you max out your body's capacity for glycogen storage — easy to do with today's rampant availability of empty calories from sugar - heavy carb sources like soda, candy, and processed food — then the extra glucose from the carbs is stored as fat instead.

Your body is burning up the extra glycogen (stored glucose) in your liver and muscles.

If you know you're going to grab an extra large hot fudge sundae on the weekend, be sure to go low carb and deplete those glycogen stores in the days prior and then enjoy!

When a person eats a large quantity of carbohydrates, the extra carbohydrates are stored as glycogens.

You see, what happens is when you consume too much fructose, the liver glycogen gets full and it triggers an insomatic process that tells the body to start storing the extra fructose as body fat.

Hi Sarah, if you also jumped right in with exercise by going from sedentary to suddenly doing exercise, some of that weight gain is from extra glycogen being stored in the muscle.

Now, if you're a true beanpole, putting on more weight than 1 pound a week might be a good thing: extra glycogen, some fat, and water stored in your body can be a good thing for your confidence and get you headed down the right path.

Your body stores extra glucose in the form of glycogen, which it can use as energy in between meals.

As your carb intake and glycogen stores drop, your kidneys will start dumping extra water.

This is due to your body storing more muscle glycogen from the extra energy demands.

When you start eating a low - carb diet, your body starts to clear out extra glycogen (stored glucose) from your muscles and liver.

Therefore it signals your pancreas to increase production of insulin, ready to shuttle all that extra glucose into your glycogen stores.

When your blood sugar, stored carbs / glycogen & insulin levels are lower from fasting you'll naturally burn more fat for energy (without any extra dieting or exercise) so guess what happens when you exercise while you're fasting...

When you take in more glucose than your body needs, it stores the extra glucose in the liver and muscles in a form called glycogen.

The glycogen is used for energy between meals and extra glucose can also be changed to fat and stored in fat cells.

That isn't to say that you want to guzzle sugar water all the time because eventually all that extra sugar will exceed the ability of the body to store it as glycogen and it will be converted to fat.

If your body manages to store some extra glycogen, you also increase water retention.