This becomes important when you eat, because you're going to absorb and
store calories very differently depending upon the bacteria you have working for you.
Not exact matches
The result of this accelerated metabolic conversion is that instead of being
stored as fat, the
calories contained in MCFs are
very efficiently converted into fuel for immediate use by organs and muscles.
And remember that breastfeeding will use up the
stores of fat deposited by pregnancy
very quickly, as it takes 1,000 - 1,500
calories a day to produce milk.
But then, when I stopped nursing, I started dropping weight
very quickly again and it was like my body was holding on to these
calories and
storing the fat to help with the milk production.
The Pima endured these conditions for millennia, and geneticists believe that, over time, their bodies evolved a «thrifty genotype» — a set of genes that enabled them to subsist on
very few
calories by increasing the efficiency of their metabolism and
storing as much energy as possible as fat.
Not only that, but it can also prevent the body from
storing excess
calories as body fat, making it a
very effective fat burning supplement indeed.
Conversely, white adipose tissue — the regular fat that
stores extra
calories and makes us gain weight — shows
very little metabolic activity.
Calories In Vs. Calories Out Which brings us to a very basic weight loss concept: When healthy, non-pregnant adults eat more calories than their body can use, their body will store those extra calories
Calories In Vs.
Calories Out Which brings us to a very basic weight loss concept: When healthy, non-pregnant adults eat more calories than their body can use, their body will store those extra calories
Calories Out Which brings us to a
very basic weight loss concept: When healthy, non-pregnant adults eat more
calories than their body can use, their body will store those extra calories
calories than their body can use, their body will
store those extra
caloriescalories as fat.
But I don't want you to lose sight of this
very basic fact: if you eat more
calories than your body can use, it will
store the extra
calories as fat.
Scientists now know that the fat cells in your abdomen are particularly sensitive to high insulin levels and are
very effective at
storing excess
calories that become fat.
In a famine state, the
very low
calorie intake is what activates the hCG hormones to seek those stubborn fat
stores that you want to get rid of.
* Because of this quick metabolism, the
calories in MCTs are
very efficiently converted into fuel for immediate use in the mitochondria, instead of being
stored as fat.
Even the leanest athlete has more than enough fat
calories to run a 100 miles or ride a double century or complete an Ironman distance triathlon while this same human body
stores a
very limited amount of glycogen, which evolutionarily is a «fight or flight» fuel source.....
Because the human body can
store 100
calories of fat
very efficiently — it only costs us 3
calories to do so.
The body burns less fats and more sugar as it works at a higher percentage of its total power output — a problem because even a
very lean body
stores about 100 times more
calories in fats than it does in sugars.
But if you are on a protein and
calorie sufficient
very low carb diet, then even after eating, your glycogen
stores don't get that full in the first place.
The
very thing you've adopted (if you're counting
calories) as best practice for losing weight can actually increase your fat
stores and make it much harder to lose fat in the future.