Weight Loss help

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Originally posted by DurangoKid
The important thing to remember is that insulin will direct the body to utilize carbs first. The excess fat and carbs will be squirreled away as fat. The amount of available carb must be sufficiently low before the body starts burning fat as fuel. Thus, in a diet too high in carbs, the body never gets around to using much of the available fat as fuel.

>>If you have a calorie defocit you will lose weight irrespective of where the calories are from (i.e. carbohydrate, fat or protein). If you expend more calories than you take in you will lose weight and there won't be an issue of 'excess fat and carbs'!!!

>>Given that carbohydrate is very important during all exercise and alows you to maintain a higher workload than fat (i.e. during glycogen depletion); exercise in a non-glycogen depleted state allows for the largest energy expendature and largest potential for a calorie defocite to be formed.

>>If you are not losing weight it is neither about the excess fat or carbohydrate in the diet, rather excess calorie intake and insucficent calorie expendature.

>>Why not just eat a balanced diet and control calorie expendature to lose weight and maintain exercise performance? This seems the most acceptable, sensible and safest approach to me.

Some small amounts of fat will always be used for other purposes. The mistake is to think it is the fault of the fats when actually the carb burning metabolic path has put the fat burning path on hold.

>>The maximum rate of fat oxidation is acheived at relativly low levels of exercise and maintained through the range of intensities to maximal aerobic exercise. Although carbohydrate metabolism increases at higher intensities; neither does fat metabolism decrease or become altered as a result of the increased fat metabolism. Carb metabolism doesn't put fat metabolism on hold, thats impossible!

For example, a diet rich in French fries and shakes will make you fat faster than a diet that includes plain McDonald’s cheeseburgers without the bun and ketchup, all other things being equal.

>>There will be no difference in weight loss or weight gain between the two diets if they contain the same amount of calories. In weight control energy balance rather than macronutrient content that is most important!!!

Chronically high levels of carb can induce a condition called insulin resistance. This is the prelude to type II diabetes. You don’t have to be obese to be diabetic.

>>Eating a diet high in fat will lead to CHD and atherosclerosis; these are the largest killers in the western world (more so than diabetes)!!!! Development of CHD is seen in children as young as 3 (from autopsy studies), even though symptoms don't apper until latter life. A balanced diet with an emphesis on unrefined carbohydrates (i.e. limited intake of sweets, table sugars, etc) helps avoid diabetes by maintaining insulin sensitivity (I can get the reference if you want). No dietition would recomend a diet so high in carbohydrate/simple carbohydrates and low enough in fat that would induce such a condition. This type of diabetes is also linked to smoking, lack of exercise, obesity, drinking, etc. with diet only playing a small (although important) part.

By the way, McDonald’s has some of the safest hamburger on the planet. They are meticulous about testing for e. coli. Read “Fast Food Nation”, if you have the stomach for it.

>>Well lets all go eat McDonalds!!!! I'm a bit more worried about atherosclerosis than e-coli. Although it may be the 'safest hamburger, I can think of 1000's of 'safer' choices than hamburgers. I recomend that you give up your trips to McDonalds for your health and cycling performance!!!

Here’s a hint for the punctuationally challenged. Type your posting with a word processor and get it right there before pasting it into the window on the website. MS Word checks for grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

>>Most people post for fun and some don't even have English as their first language, hope you don't mind but I'll keep posting 'off the top of my head'.