Why am I so hungry?

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  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    Wrong.

    In a deficit state, glycogen goes first.

    Then fats start to be burned.

    To keep the levels of glucose where they should be, labile amino acids are broken down.

    This is called gluconeogenisis and it does NOT involve "lean" muscle.

    That is another misconception.

    The amino acids come from non-essential protein like enzymes and smooth muscle.

    Only after days of frank starvation does "lean" muscle or brain tissue start to get broken down.

    Dieters do not have to worry about that.
    Again, all false. While it may be true that the protein used in gluconeogenesis comes from non-essential stores, the fact you are conveniently ignoring is that lean muscle is constantly being broken down on a minute by minute basis, to be repaired and replaced. It's how the human body functions. Cells die by the millions every day and get replaced. When the protein that SHOULD be replacing the lean muscle if forced to be used for energy instead, that lean muscle can't be rebuilt and that lean muscle is "lost."

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