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Type 2 Where do the calories go?

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da_carter

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I've been on the LCHF diet since April and have lost 1 1/2 stone quite easily so I know it works. I understand that by eating low carb my body gets it's energy from the stored fats but what about the high numbers of calories in the fat I'm eating? Am I burning those as well or are they somehow being ignored in favored the stored fats? I'm sure I'm eating more calories than I would have before so there must be some 'trickery' going on.
 
Hi da_carter..You might be actually eating less calories as the fat gives you more energy and fills you up more than carby foods would.
Experiment and record /count up your Calories it may well help your weight adjustments later.. Best Luck..
 
da_carter said:
I've been on the LCHF diet since April and have lost 1 1/2 stone quite easily so I know it works. I understand that by eating low carb my body gets it's energy from the stored fats but what about the high numbers of calories in the fat I'm eating? Am I burning those as well or are they somehow being ignored in favored the stored fats? I'm sure I'm eating more calories than I would have before so there must be some 'trickery' going on.
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Hi da_carter. Some folks find as you do, and I reckon myself to be one of them.

My posh scales, which work out various metrics like percentages of muscle, fat and so on, also calculate my base metabolic rate (BMR).

My BMR, from memory is 1200-1300, but I certainly average 2000-2500 a day and I'm not an intensive exerciser. If I trim that back for more than a day or so, my weight begins to drop, which isn't what I, personally, am looking for.

To be honest, I think this is just another instance where we realise how different we can all be.
 
Dr Atkins called it a metabolic advantage - trying to explain why the calories do not add up when eating low carb. Personally I think that it is because when you eat carbs they are all absorbed, but when you do low carb a fair amount of the fats are wasted, either never absorbed, or burnt inefficiently or just burnt to keep us warm - on a low far low calorie diet I go cold and pale but on low carb I bloom like a rose and am always warm.
 
Hi. As a generalisation, the body handles fats inefficiently and they aren't so easily stored as fat as carbs are. Some fats just go straight thru the body.
 
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