Carb up

I've seen a few posts on here knocking the 80 10 10 diet, referring to it as a starvation diet. It's actually quite the opposite. If you read/ watch videos about people doing this diet, they're eating up to 5000 calories a day and effortlessly maintaining very low body fat %. 10% protein sounds low, but say you're eating 3000 calories, that's 300 protein calories/ 75g protein. That's more than enough when you're eating that many carbs; none of that protein is going to be converted for energy. Carbs don't really get stored as fat either. They get used for energy, then they get stored in the liver/ muscles as glycogen (up to 2 pounds) and then excess of this will get burnt off through body heat/ more fidgeting etc. On the rare occasion that glucose is converted to fat, it's a very costly process and over 30% of the calories are lost in doing so. Excess carbs can lead to dietary fat being stored as body fat but if your fat intake is very low, then this isn't going to happen. I believe this diet works just as well with higher protein intake too (within reason.)