Separating fat/carbs??

jennabridgers

Hey there! Hope everyone is doing great today.

I have been following an "eating lifestyle" calling Trim Healthy Mama for about 6 weeks but have not had ANY weight loss. Been holding steady at 191.

The premise with them is to eat protein with every meal, snack, fuel every three hours and do not mix your fuels. So an example would be:

Eggs, coconut oil, coffee with cream for breakfast (protein/fat)
Salad with grilled chicken and quinoa and an apple for lunch (protein carbs)
Etc, etc

Basically they are saying that if you give your body both fats and carbs at one meal, the body will burn the carbs for energy and store the extra calories from the fat, as, well, fat! (Although they know fat does not make us fat!)

Does this make sense? I know plenty of people lose weight without following this principal. I have been low carbing off and on for 4.5 years and go through a cycle of super low carb- then eat a sugary meal-- off to the races for a couple of weeks-- then back to low carb to take off the weight my "crap eating" has put on.

I know understand that I have probably, inadvertently, been eating below BMR when low carbing and setting myself up for a "bender" because my body was deprived. Not scared to eat more, just want to see if there is any need to separate fuels as described!

Thanks!!!

mymodernbabylon

No. Just no. I have lost 20 lb w/o doing any of that. The healthiest people in the world eat mixes of carbs, fats and proteins. So, no. It's faddy bull cocky.

heybales

While it is true that when insulin goes up fat release stops from cells - fat burning does NOT stop for whatever was floating around already or what you ate. So if normal post-meal activity of not doing much, fat is still primary energy source until that is gone.

Carbs eaten are topped off in the liver, the muscles, and burned as fuel. And when in a diet, your carb stores are always depleted to some extent, so you never fully top them off.
So insulin drops sooner in a diet than when not in a diet. Which returns you back to normal fat burning release/burning mode. That's when your fat is burned off in a diet.

Now, eating enough protein, which has no place to store and limited time in blood stream, and if not needed is converted to glucose, will kick off insulin response too, so nothing really prevented there eating protein and fat/carbs together.

Your big difference going low carb and then eating crap meal - is water weight as you store less carbs then top them off. They store with water, to the tune of 500 cal of carbs = 1 lb weight.
Not much changes in primary energy, excess protein still finds itself converted to carbs and stored, but it's just a bigger depleted state than normal.

Unless you have sensitive stomach, and actually about 1/2 population does for straight carbs, having a mix at each meal/snack is usually better, and for some the protein/fat first causes the effects of the carbs to be reduced or slowed down. So actual benefits.