Anabolic or Catabolic State.....skimming fat under the skin

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Excessive Anabolic Zone (Buildup Zone) – your blood sugar is too high. Your muscles have plenty of energy available to work with and build in size and strength, but there is too much energy on top of what is required for this and so your body will release Insulin to reduce the level. Result: Fat and Muscle Storage.


Moderate Anabolic Zone (Buildup Zone) – your blood sugar is above the level required for maintenance of living function. This moderate excess gives the muscles plenty of energy to work with and build in size and strength. Result: Muscle Storage.


Moderate Catabolic Zone (Breakdown Zone) – your blood sugar is below the level required for maintenance of living function. This moderate deficit means the body has to‘dip into’ its spare energy stores, fat stored under the skin, but there is enough energy to maintain normal metabolic function. Result: Fat Breakdown.


Excessive Catabolic Zone(Breakdown Zone) – starvation. Your blood sugar is too low.This severe deficit means the body has to steal energy from its stores, but because yourbody is now in a starvation state it tries to preserve its longterm fuel source for as long as possible it will burn more muscle than fat. From a caveman perspective, the choice to break down muscle preserves the most valuable resource, fat – which improves capability to walk to the next village/source of nourishment, therefore improving survival chances. Result: Fat and Muscle Breakdown. Increase in fat storage enzymes.


Clearly, the two moderate zones will improve body composition, whereas the two extreme zones will be detrimental to body composition. Moderate Catabolism is extremely beneficial to anyone looking to burn fat. If you stay within this Moderate Catabolic Zone(Fat Burn Zone) all day you will cause your body to ‘skim off the top’ of its fat reserves –the fat stored beneath the skin, also called subcutaneous fat. On a minute by minute basis, you are not using a lot of fat, but over the course of a day/week/month, this all adds up to significant progress.

YepLilly

This is a nice summary of the whole deal, thanks.