High Fat Diets

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fluffykitsune
fluffykitsune Posts: 236 Member
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Ok just a question.
Is it possible that if you eat a high fat diet, your body can recognize this and will release stored fat easier (faster?) because there is an abundance available to it for the time being ?
This is assuming that you're in a small deficit (or tdee) and have no metabolism damage.

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  • Ainar
    Ainar Posts: 858 Member
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    No. If you put food in your body your body will absorb it first, no matter what food it is. And it will burn body fat only when it has used all food you gave it. Therefore, to lose body fat you have to ate less than you burn for your body to take extra needed energy from stored fat. That's all there is to it really. What type of foods you ate does not have any difference in weight loss. It's all about calories in vs calories out.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    What type of foods you ate does not have any difference in weight loss. It's all about calories in vs calories out.

    Some would beg to differ about the types of food. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22735432 found that "Among overweight and obese young adults compared with pre-weight-loss energy expenditure, isocaloric feeding following 10% to 15% weight loss resulted in decreases in REE and TDEE that were greatest with the low-fat diet, intermediate with the low-glycemic index diet, and least with the very low-carbohydrate diet." - so choice of food affected calories out.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23671029 found that "Consumption of a relatively low GL diet may affect energy partitioning, both inducing reduction in IAAT (visceral fat) independent of weight change, and enhancing loss of fat relative to lean mass during weight loss."

    http://jn.nutrition.org/content/133/2/411.short found that "Weight loss in the Protein Group was partitioned to a significantly higher loss of fat/lean (6.3 ± 1.2 g/g) compared with the CHO Group (3.8 ± 0.9)." comparing two diets with the same calories and fat but different protein / carb ratios.

    There are plenty more like this, but the message is clear that food choice does influence energetics and the proportion of lean / fat mass lost.

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