Velve921
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cantstoppeating said:managing said:I would love for somebody to post an adequate explanation of that. When I was low carb (not that I am recommending it) I could eat fat all day and lose weight. Peating, I've gained both fat and muscle.
I realize that low carbing makes lipolysis the default form of energy. But peat makes sugar the source of energy. When low carbing, "excess" fat didn't seem to matter. Yet when Peating, excess sugar (I presume) seems to turn into fat.
Yet everybody here and on Peatarian says to cut the fat to lose fat. This just seems too simplistic. There is an underlying explanation of raypeatian subtlimnity. I just don't know what it is.
How does fat consumption lead to fat loss when low carbing, yet when peating (many say) fat consumption leads to fat gain.
This is something I struggle to understand too. It seems no one has a clear explanation other than "restore metabolism and then you'll be thin".
As far as I understand low carbing switches our cell's fuel source from sugar to fat. Peating switching them to sugar. Since fatloss occurs through a caloric deficit (either we burn more or we consume less or a combination), Peat style fatloss is to eat enough sugar to keep metabolic rate high (i.e. temps at 98.6f), yet reduce fat to limit calories as it's the most calorically dense macronutrient and least likely to cause problems when drastically reduced.
But since our cells are running on sugar, that calorie deficit is balanced by the burning of excess fat at rest within, supposedly, the cells in our skeletal muscles.
Other than that, the goal of excess fat loss while Peating seems to be the big elephant in the room that no one wants to address.
I can sense your frustration as I've felt the same at times. I've been Peating for 9 months and only in the last 2 have I started to see fat loss.
I'm not a chemist or nutritionist but here would be my understanding in simple terms:
Do to the inefficiency of the metabolism to run its proper course we have to take it back to infancy almost. If you took a baby in the womb and its mother ate a Peatarian lifestyle and then continued to feed the baby the same foods after birth then I would say most likely that baby would grow up to be quite Leeann and probably ripped. Now take an older middle aged being and try to do the same thing only now you are also dealing with damage done to the body...it is quite difficult to get that instant lean physique which most of the population isn't willing to wait. So to answer your question...years from now after Peating for extended years I will have the leanness that I had before I started only I'll be functioning like a mad man with little to no disorders. Some people may have instant fat loss but the majority it could take years based in everything Ive learned so far.