Westside PUFAs
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How does one safely lose body fat ? Wouldn't that increase free fatty acids more in the serum and cause more problems ?
Would you have any information how they can do this safely?
Thank You
Let's look at a Peat paragraph on the subject:
"My recommendation is to eat to increase the metabolic rate (usually temperature and heart rate), rather than any particular foods. Usually the increased metabolic rate, with adequate protein, causes some muscle increase, and when that happens the basic calorie requirement will increase. The increase of muscle mass should continue for several weeks, and during that time the weight might increase a little, but usually the loss of water and fat will compensate for the greater muscle mass. I have heard from several people that they think I recommend drinking whole milk, which I don’t, because the amount of fat in whole milk is very likely to be fattening when a person is using it to get the needed protein and calcium. When a person wants to lose excess fat, limiting the diet to low fat milk, eggs, orange juice, and a daily carrot or two, will provide the essential nutrients without excess calories.”-RP
I agree with him about keeping saturated fat low and overall calories low, "excess calories." I think when he said "rather than any particular foods" that it's a little weird because I think specificity is key. Yes it will increase FFA. But something has to happen. You have to do something. Your body fat will continue to sit there unless you force your body to use it for energy. That's what it is, stored energy. There will be times when it doesn't feel good. But you have to pay for all of the poor decisions you've made in the past. That stomach growling feeling is uncomfortable but it works for fat loss. No, I don't believe that it will "slow the metabolism." As long as you're getting the essential nutrients, like Peat said in that quote above, it's fine. Again, you have to tap into those fat stores to actually get rid of them.
The problem with gaining fat is that is distributes everywhere differently for people. It's a gamble on where it will be stored; your belly, your chest (the 2nd type of gyno, chest fat), your neck, or your butt and thighs, more so thighs than butt. And the sexes store it differently mostly in that males have the bulging gut and females have the thighs and upper arms. People who've been lean their whole life have no perspective or understanding of what it's actually like to not just gain "weight," but gain fat on their body. I know because I was one of them. Gaining too much fat on your body can lead to blood sugar problems, hormonal problems because adipose tissue acts like its own organ and produces it's own hormones, and social problems.
I'm not anti dietary fat. I'm anti too much dietary fat. People hear that butter and cheese are healthy and they go and eat gobs of butter and tons of cheese and drink whole milk daily and they wonder why they are getting fat, got fat and aren't losing fat. Similarly, vegans eat their nut butters, tahini and avocados and the same happens with them, they get fat. Even non vegans who eat lots of peanut butter get fat.
I don't believe the hype about low fat and testosterone. Testosterone is made from cholesterol and cholesterol is still made by the liver on a low fat diet. I noticed that light from the sun or the lights used by most people here makes me feel like my testosterone goes up a lot. To me, testosterone has more to do with light on the skin, lifting some amount of weights to build some amount of muscle and keep in the more muscular state than the fat state, eating high carb low fat which for me is mostly boiled starch, sleeping enough and not jerking off too much and having a partner you're actually very attracted to.
Where does your 10% figure come from?
Research on type two diabetes.