Repairing your broken furnace (Metabolism)

I am confused, when I first come here I have learned that meal timing and meal frequency are myths and it's all about calories in -calories out+If it fits in our macro, and now this....? What to believe now. :indifferent:

I agreed until I got here:

Eating fat early in the day isn't a good idea, either, just as eating carbohydrates at night isn't a good idea. Fats, or more specifically, Free Fatty Acids (FFA) in the blood can themselves have a relationship with less efficient carbohydrate metabolism.


As such, eating fats and carbohydrates together isn't the best idea. Having FFA in the bloodstream is like supplying bricks to a bricklayer, only in this case the FFA are the bricks and the bricklayer – insulin – is building a house of fat! High insulin levels, courtesy of rapidly digested carbohydrates, store FFA in the blood as fat whereas normally the body might utilize them as energy.


So why not ditch the fat and focus upon breakfast carbohydrates at a time when our hormonal makeup and our increased muscular activity will induce its uptake anyway? In short, eat carbohydrates in the morning, and fats later on in the day, but never together.

My normal morning breakfast consists of baked oatmeal with peanut butter and hemp protein powder. It's all three macros in one meal. Sometimes I have it for lunch too. I have found that since I started eating this every morning, I feel satiated through lunch and it fits my macros perfectly. It hasn't hindered my progress at all. I continue to lose inches every week.

So, at this point, I'm going to say, I don't believe this article. (unless I'm a special snowflake) It sounds WAY too much like the Atkins diet, claiming you can't eat carbs at the same time as protein. Total bunk!

I gain muscle so easy and end up looking bigger...its frustrating.i tried for a period of four months bumping up my calories to 16-1800...stil gained 6lbs...so took it back down. do you think some people just have to really work hard to shift those last few vanity pounds my bmi is 22 but this dont show the real pic

wow great stuff!! i myself have what i call a screwed up metabolism!! the only way I could loose weight was by extreme routines.For some reason the so called normal eating,portion control,free foods,right foods wrong foods,atkins whatever the diet I have tried it to no avail!!!.very frustrating.also I read an interresting atricle on here about the 185lb women who hardly ate.and the problem this caused..I feel there is no way for me to sort this problem as on a good diet I dont loose I dont really gain I just stay the same. very frustrating.I am open to ideas how to fix this problem.I am sick of having to restrict and exercise like a crazy person in order to shift to the weight I like to be

I agreed until I got here:

Eating fat early in the day isn't a good idea, either, just as eating carbohydrates at night isn't a good idea. Fats, or more specifically, Free Fatty Acids (FFA) in the blood can themselves have a relationship with less efficient carbohydrate metabolism.


As such, eating fats and carbohydrates together isn't the best idea. Having FFA in the bloodstream is like supplying bricks to a bricklayer, only in this case the FFA are the bricks and the bricklayer – insulin – is building a house of fat! High insulin levels, courtesy of rapidly digested carbohydrates, store FFA in the blood as fat whereas normally the body might utilize them as energy.


So why not ditch the fat and focus upon breakfast carbohydrates at a time when our hormonal makeup and our increased muscular activity will induce its uptake anyway? In short, eat carbohydrates in the morning, and fats later on in the day, but never together.

My normal morning breakfast consists of baked oatmeal with peanut butter and hemp protein powder. It's all three macros in one meal. Sometimes I have it for lunch too. I have found that since I started eating this every morning, I feel satiated through lunch and it fits my macros perfectly. It hasn't hindered my progress at all. I continue to lose inches every week.

So, at this point, I'm going to say, I don't believe this article. (unless I'm a special snowflake) It sounds WAY too much like the Atkins diet, claiming you can't eat carbs at the same time as protein. Total bunk!