Excess fuel leads to fat storage (Short Term)

Taylor521
Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
edited September 26 in Food and Nutrition
I was reading how if you eat a large meal, that has more fuel in it than your body is burning at that very moment that you will store fat. Regardless of whether or not your in your daily calorie allowance. Is there any authority on what is a good portion size to split your intake into throughout the day?

I guess eating what you exercise or less than after you go to the gym is fairly obvious. But it sounds like you also have to pace your intake evenly throughout the day. Would this have any effect on weight loss?

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  • LoveleeB
    LoveleeB Posts: 560 Member
    I think it does. That's why they say its best to eat 4-5 small meals a day rather than 3 larger ones. Your metabolism will be continually working throughout the day so, in theory, this will result in better weight loss.
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
    It's best to try to just split them fairly evenly. So if your daily calorie goal is 1600, aim to break it up into 3 meals of 400ish and then split the remaining 200 between snacks, for one example.
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    "Short Term", meaning what 1 hour, 30 minutes....Get Real, who is going to weigh themselves every hour. It takes at least 24 hours for food to be stored as Fat, maybe even longer! Some people on here are such Weightatics, most are NOT Health Nuts cause some of the stuff they do has Nothing to do with Living A Healthy Lifestyle...But to each their own.

    How many time a day or when you eat does not matter to weight loss or gain; it only matters to someone's personal digestive system. If wt loss had to do with HOW MANY times we ate per day we would eat once a day or less because wt. loss has to do with Raised Insulin Levels, each time we eat anything our Insulin Level is Raised>>>WHAT we eat will determine HOW Much it is Raised.
  • Taylor521
    Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
    "Short Term", meaning what 1 hour, 30 minutes....Get Real, who is going to weigh themselves every hour. It takes at least 24 hours for food to be stored as Fat, maybe even longer! Some people on here are such Weightatics, most are NOT Health Nuts cause some of the stuff they do has Nothing to do with Living A Healthy Lifestyle...But to each their own.

    I'm not talking about anything that would manifest itself in the form of weight gain over the short term. I'm talking about eating your food more evenly throughout the day so that way your body has a higher demand for the food your digesting all day long.

    I guess splitting them as evenly as you can is the only thing to do.
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    To Taylor521
    I don't get you because Burning Calories (Fuel) is what it is ALL about AND ALL of it is STORED. Are You kinda Getting it. But as an aside, I checked out your Diary>>>DUDE, you are gonna kill yourself with all of that SODIUM and Processed food.
  • kmal2t
    kmal2t Posts: 21
    This is the problem people always have because they do things as if their body dumps their 2000 calories (or however many you burn in a day) at exactly 12:00 AM...your body is constantly burning depending on what you are doing. The rate changes based on age, gender, weight metabolism, your exercise level etc.

    I've read here and there (could be wrong and vary depending on person to person) that it takes about 3 hrs for your body to process carbohydrates. So if you eat 500g of carbs in something nasty and are only burning 80 cals an hour guess what? Your body is going to store it. Eat smaller so your body can burn off what you ate instead of storing it.

    And then people go "well then I won't eat for 6 hrs to make up for eating poorly" ...then ofc duh...your metabolism slows down and your blood sugar level is going to plummet and now you're burning even less cals an hour and its going to horde the food as fat.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,328 Member
    I think it does. That's why they say its best to eat 4-5 small meals a day rather than 3 larger ones. Your metabolism will be continually working throughout the day so, in theory, this will result in better weight loss.

    They say that, but there is absolutely no proof in scientific study for it. I would look here http://bit.ly/eHaBGp for a pdf that goes into it in much more detail that I want to, and it actually references actual scientific studies to prove it.
  • deathtaco
    deathtaco Posts: 237
    I was reading how if you eat a large meal, that has more fuel in it than your body is burning at that very moment that you will store fat. Regardless of whether or not your in your daily calorie allowance. Is there any authority on what is a good portion size to split your intake into throughout the day?

    I guess eating what you exercise or less than after you go to the gym is fairly obvious. But it sounds like you also have to pace your intake evenly throughout the day. Would this have any effect on weight loss?

    Your body burns calories 24/7. If this principle were true, then Intermittent Fasters would not be lean or lose body fat. Granted, certain food combinations may help this such as high fat/carb meals. But meal size in itself does not do this.

    For example, my "breakfast" the other day consisted of:
    -1lb Ground Chicken
    -Entire pack of mushrooms
    -2 cups of spinach
    -46g of Egg Whites

    All mixed in a pan and stir fried. I eat like this every day, and I am losing body fat.

    Your body is constantly in a state of caloric spending. Even when sleeping, it's burning calories. If you feed it the RIGHT nutrients and the RIGHT AMOUNT, it doesn't matter when you consume them.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,328 Member
    I was reading how if you eat a large meal, that has more fuel in it than your body is burning at that very moment that you will store fat. Regardless of whether or not your in your daily calorie allowance. Is there any authority on what is a good portion size to split your intake into throughout the day?

    I guess eating what you exercise or less than after you go to the gym is fairly obvious. But it sounds like you also have to pace your intake evenly throughout the day. Would this have any effect on weight loss?

    Your body burns calories 24/7. If this principle were true, then Intermittent Fasters would not be lean or lose body fat. Granted, certain food combinations may help this such as high fat/carb meals. But meal size in itself does not do this.

    For example, my "breakfast" the other day consisted of:
    -1lb Ground Chicken
    -Entire pack of mushrooms
    -2 cups of spinach
    -46g of Egg Whites

    All mixed in a pan and stir fried. I eat like this every day, and I am losing body fat.

    Your body is constantly in a state of caloric spending. Even when sleeping, it's burning calories. If you feed it the RIGHT nutrients and the RIGHT AMOUNT, it doesn't matter when you consume them.

    Exactly. The link I posted in my answer was to a leangains pdf
  • Grokette
    Grokette Posts: 3,330 Member
    I agree with rileysowner and deathtaco.

    I am an avid believer of Intermittent Fasting now though. I am on a fast now until noon tomorrow. My last meal was finished at 6:00 pm, so it will be 18 hours between feedings.

    I eat plenty of fat, moderate protein and my carbs for today were 20 total and I will not be hungry at all. I will probably register a nice loss too as I have been picking up the pace.
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