Coconut oil for fat loss

It it was only that simple there would be no need for MFP.

If you like coconut oil, use it, but it isn't magical and won't do anything out of the ordinary. It's just an oil and should be treated as such.

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I used it to help clear candida as it is packed with linoleic acid.
It tastes amazing and fries real nice.
It's just as fattening as other fats unfortunately.

How is it supposed to assist fat loss? How can eating fat reduce fat?

whmscll wrote: »

How is it supposed to assist fat loss? How can eating fat reduce fat?

Your body needs fat for nutrition. The fat you already have stored in you doesn't work that way unless you pretend you are in a German concentration camp. There is a ton of information on MFP about fat. Read all about it!

Not for fat loss, but when I slather it on my hair once a week, then shampoo=shiny hair!

I think you're referring to this type of thing?

http://makecoconutnotfat.com/coconut-oil-magical-hack-need-know/

It's not evidence-based and totally anecdotal, but it could work - stranger things have happened I guess. Not up for trying it though - I'd rather eat 'normally' with a calorie deficit.

Oil PULLING, however - amazing for your teeth. Though doesn't make you lose weight at all.

Coconut oil does nothing for fat loss.

A calorie deficit creates fat loss (and muscle loss). A lifting program helps prevent some muscle loss.

Coconut oil is very high in saturated fat. Olive oil is not. I cook with olive oil.

I like extra virgin olive oil. Bertolli is a good brand.

I use it. But basically any healthy food that satiates your appetite so that you don't feel the desire to eat more often can help in that way (there is a possible additional benefit, see below). I used butter and coconut oil in my coffee in the morning and then didn't eat anything else until at least 2pm. By that method, without counting calories, I lost... around 25 pounds in over a year. Not horrible but not great. I stuck with it because I felt great eating that way.

Then, I started tracking calories with a goal that kept me in deficit. I also bought a food scale, and lost over ten pounds in less than a quarter of the time. I still usually put coconut oil and butter in my coffee, but not nearly as much. As I start to lose I have to adjust my calorie goal down and that might mean giving it up altogether or alternating mornings or perhaps alternating the butter and the coconut oil. We'll see how the math works.

I do think my body may have needed the fat and that "gorging" on the butter and coconut oil (about an ounce of each every morning) was probably good for me. It might help your body adapt to using fat for energy and thus get it ready to burn your own (though you'll have to taper off the outside fat a bit, perhaps). And it supposedly is good for immediate energy due to the properties of medium chain triglycerides that are in it.

But I would just try it. I suspect this works better if you have a great deal of fat to lose. The best thing about MFP, I think, is the ability to track what is happening and figure out what works for you.

Coconut oil has calories like any other oil. Use it if you like but it won't make you lose more weight than if you used peanut oil or olive oil and stuck to your calorie goal.

There isn't a magic food or drink that makes you lose weight. It is all about the calories you consume vs. the calories you burn.

whmscll wrote: »

How is it supposed to assist fat loss? How can eating fat reduce fat?

It doesn't aid in fat loss...but dietary fat =/= body fat...you don't get fat from eating fat.