Help solve a fight.

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  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    It's completely idiotic.

    Excess energy (calories) are stored as fat, regardless of if they come from fat, carbs or protein.

    Prove me wrong by telling me HOW, don't be another d'bag and say "cause it is". I want to hear how my body can turn a banana into body fat. I want to know how my body turns broccoli into body fat. I don't want to argue, I am asking how it happens.

    You should read this: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.html
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    .... So in theory if we were eating a food that was more usable by the body we would stop pooping.

    But when would we get any time to read?
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    The answer has nothing to do with the amount of fat or carbs or protein in the food you eat. The answer is simply that your body needs X calories per day to survive. If you eat X + 1, it stores the +1 just in case you need it in the future. If you do need it, you do not gain weight. However, in general you do not need it, so it continues to be stored as fat and each time you eat another +1, +5, etc, all of that gets stored. Likewise, if you eat X-1 calories, your body uses stored calories (fat) to make up the -1. That is how dieters lose weight.

    Biological processes (urination, defecation) do not eliminate unneeded calories, they just eliminate things that our bodies cannot process.
  • ChappyEight
    ChappyEight Posts: 163 Member

    Prove me wrong by telling me HOW, don't be another d'bag and say "cause it is". I want to hear how my body can turn a banana into body fat. I want to know how my body turns broccoli into body fat. I don't want to argue, I am asking how it happens.

    http://bit.ly/MVGoDB

    I believe you just won the internet.

    Well played.
  • amruden
    amruden Posts: 228 Member
    Once again.


    Thank you.
  • Hendrix7
    Hendrix7 Posts: 1,903 Member
    It's completely idiotic.

    Excess energy (calories) are stored as fat, regardless of if they come from fat, carbs or protein.

    Prove me wrong by telling me HOW, don't be another d'bag and say "cause it is". I want to hear how my body can turn a banana into body fat. I want to know how my body turns broccoli into body fat. I don't want to argue, I am asking how it happens.

    You should read this: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.html

    This ^^

    And everything else on that site.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Help solve a fight.

    You will no gain weight if you eat a NO fat diet, and eat 10,000 calories.
    Because it is the Fat in food that stored as Fat.

    What is your thought on this statement!?
    I did hear someone say this once, but to be fair he was the Retail Marketing Director of a major sugar producer.

    "Fat makes you fat, not carbs" he said. "If you could make a snack that was pure carbohydrate you would be rich".

    Unfortunately, insulin has other ideas.
  • paulvt65
    paulvt65 Posts: 73 Member
    You can't eat that many cals without gaining whether or not you include fats.

    Michael Phelps - and doubtless many other high-performance athletes - can eat that many calories without too much of a problem. Phelps is currently on 12,000 calories a day in his Olympic build-up - and not too much fat going on there!
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    You can't eat that many cals without gaining whether or not you include fats.

    Michael Phelps - and doubtless many other high-performance athletes - can eat that many calories without too much of a problem. Phelps is currently on 12,000 calories a day in his Olympic build-up - and not too much fat going on there!

    Yeah, and Phelps eats a diet pretty high in fat and carbs. BECAUSE, it's not fat or carbs that make you fat. It's the number of calories you eat vs. the number you need. Phelps needs 12,000 calories a day because he's working out all day and burning that many calories. If he ate less than that, he would be losing weight. He also doesn't eat more than he needs. Even Phelps will get fat if he eats too many calories.
  • ChappyEight
    ChappyEight Posts: 163 Member
    Exactly. An olympic swimmer burns an ungodly amount of calories, daily.
  • RealWomenLovePitbulls
    RealWomenLovePitbulls Posts: 729 Member
    a calorie is still a calorie and 3500 of them still make a pound
  • Jeramie1
    Jeramie1 Posts: 8
    Let me begin by saying that I have already conceded part of my original statement.

    I would like to thank everybody that offered real information and answered my question. I did read through all of the articles and web links that were offered. They were all about the same as the articles I found when I originally did my research into the subject matter years ago. I still maintain that this is most definitely a complex topic, and there is no straight forward answer.
    If I were to eat 63.18 lbs of baby carrots (approx 10,000 cals), I would not gain 3 lbs of body weight but would be "on the pot" suffering for awhile. This is because of the high fiber content which is mostly passed through without being digested. If I were to eat 37 snickers candy bars (approx 10,000 cals) I would most definitely have an upset stomach and also hypothesize a much different result in weight gain. 37 of those would be about 503 grams of fat which is easily absorbed and around 1276.5 grams of carbohydrates. Carbs can be broken down and turned into body fat but requires a lot of work that the body doesn't really like doing so it is rare. Given that my body would actually absorb all of that without burning any of it off, I would gain almost 4 lbs of body fat. (direct conversion of grams to lbs)
    I hope this thread has inspired thought and provided information for many people who have been following along. Hopefully the negative statements and juvenile comments haven't turned too many people away. Thanks to all

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