Do you pay much attention to food categories

wheird

Sugar does make you fat!! If it is not expended it is stored and turned to fat!!! Basics....

Um, the "basics" are: sugar is a carb. Unless you are diabetic (or have some other insulin/carb resistant malady), then the carbs are used first. As such, sugar is the least likely nutrient that is stored as fat.

But if you want to achieve "fat loss" then it's best to reduce carb (and therefore sugar) so the body then takes fat as your source of energy, therefore burns fat first cos it doesn't have carbs/sugars to burn, hence then losing pure fat!

Sweetie, it is embarrassing to claim something is basic when what you say is untrue and shows you have a basic lack of understanding of the subject.

If you want to achieve weight loss, then you need to eat below your maintenance calories. If you want to achieve fat loss, then you need to eat the proper amount of protein and do resistence training to preserve your skeletal muscle.

And in ketosis, where you eat very very few carbs, your body burns the dietary fat as its primary fuel, so you still need to be at a caloric deficit before your body touches its fat stores. And long term there is little difference between a ketogenic diet and a more common 40-30-30 diet.

chezjuan

when I started out I just tracked my calories. As I refined my goals, I started watching my macros and a couple of micros (fiber and calcium). I try to get as close to my protein goal as I can, and generally fat and carbs fall into place.

I don't specifically track sugar.

EuroDivas

Thanks for all the feedback Guys!!