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Am I becoming fat adapted?

SlimBride2Be
SlimBride2Be Posts: 315 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
So 13 hours ago I ate 150-200g Ben and Jerry's. It was within my calories but definitely not my carbs. I was expecting adverse effects but this morning I am down a pound, feeling good and not hungry at all. Is this what being fat adapted is? Being able to be metabolically flexible? Either way I'm pleased and relieved!

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  • camtosh
    camtosh Posts: 898 Member
    sounds great! I have had a similar experience, so let's hope it keeps on. kcko
  • wabmester
    wabmester Posts: 2,748 Member
    It's not the typical definition, but I like it. :)
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    wabmester wrote: »
    It's not the typical definition, but I like it. :)

    I like it too. (No idea what fat adapted truly means, but like that you had this experience!)
  • KnitOrMiss
    KnitOrMiss Posts: 10,103 Member
    Yeah, I think I would say "regained metabolic flexibility" or something, but I'm just a geek like that!
  • Sugarbeat
    Sugarbeat Posts: 824 Member
    I don't know but B&J = weight loss is a diet I would happily do.
  • KnitOrMiss
    KnitOrMiss Posts: 10,103 Member
    Sugarbeat wrote: »
    I don't know but B&J = weight loss is a diet I would happily do.

    LMAO - The first 30-50 pounds I lost on what I called the Girl Scout Cookie Diet. I ate GSC every single day, usually a whole box a day, but I was so fat that I lost weight like crazy because I woke up one day and cared. I worked every single cookie booth we did that year (13) and worked the whole thing (some of them were 8+ hours), and just basically got up off my butt! I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, really, but I joke about it all the time, because I totally did. That was the year the Savannah Smiles (lemon) first came out. I think I ate 4-5 cases of those by myself.
  • professionalHobbyist
    professionalHobbyist Posts: 1,316 Member
    I think I am slowly getting fat adapted. My mitochondria adapted for better and greater fat uptake

    It has taken probably 6 months of morning workout on a fasted state with no carbs for 12 hours. My body adapted to burning fat better

    I have pushed it more the last two weeks and I am cautiously optimistic

    That long ride yesterday when fasted really opened my eyes. Good speed and strength, and I was not hungry when done.

    Time will tell.
  • wabmester
    wabmester Posts: 2,748 Member
    AFAIK, the only way to know for sure is to test your respiratory quotient over time and exercise intensity like this guy:

    VO2-max-testing-1024x633.jpg

    But the fasted exercise endurance test is a good proxy, IMO.

    For most people, the psychological changes in terms of hunger, cravings, and binge resistance are by far the most important, though. I'm still amazed that I can eat yummy foods in moderation now. I never understood how normal people could do that.
  • Sugarbeat
    Sugarbeat Posts: 824 Member
    KnitOrMiss wrote: »
    Sugarbeat wrote: »
    I don't know but B&J = weight loss is a diet I would happily do.

    LMAO - The first 30-50 pounds I lost on what I called the Girl Scout Cookie Diet. I ate GSC every single day, usually a whole box a day, but I was so fat that I lost weight like crazy because I woke up one day and cared. I worked every single cookie booth we did that year (13) and worked the whole thing (some of them were 8+ hours), and just basically got up off my butt! I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, really, but I joke about it all the time, because I totally did. That was the year the Savannah Smiles (lemon) first came out. I think I ate 4-5 cases of those by myself.

    I could eat a box of Thin Mints at a time, by myself. Which is why I no longer buy them, or if I do I give them away.
  • KnitOrMiss
    KnitOrMiss Posts: 10,103 Member
    edited July 2015
    Sugarbeat wrote: »
    KnitOrMiss wrote: »
    Sugarbeat wrote: »
    I don't know but B&J = weight loss is a diet I would happily do.

    LMAO - The first 30-50 pounds I lost on what I called the Girl Scout Cookie Diet. I ate GSC every single day, usually a whole box a day, but I was so fat that I lost weight like crazy because I woke up one day and cared. I worked every single cookie booth we did that year (13) and worked the whole thing (some of them were 8+ hours), and just basically got up off my butt! I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, really, but I joke about it all the time, because I totally did. That was the year the Savannah Smiles (lemon) first came out. I think I ate 4-5 cases of those by myself.

    I could eat a box of Thin Mints at a time, by myself. Which is why I no longer buy them, or if I do I give them away.

    If I want to support a troop now, I do the "donate a box to the troops" thing now. :) They get a special patch for that!
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