Question about FATS

You gain weight if you eat more calories than you burn regardless of where those calories come from. DO NOT cut all the fat out from your diet, you need fat in your diet to stay healthy. Fats perform a vital function in the body which helps with the whole staying alive thing.

Your calorie intake determines whether you gain maintain or lose not fat.

Calories in v calories out works in theory. But our bodies are more complicated than theory.

I struggle to understand precisely what the OP is saying. If you eat ALOT of calories but you burn them all up, no you wouldn't gain. On the other hand if you overeat, you will gain.

Do not eat O% fat. That's unhealthy and you will have health problems resulting if you do it for a while. Fat has real functions in the body. Its not just about storing excess calories. You can look it up yourself by googling. Please do it.

All the basics foods have important functions to keep us healthy. This is why its worthwhile learning about nutrition and what everything does. You don't need to know it all off by heart but you do need to be aware of these things.

If you are already a low body weight, which i suspect, then you should be aware that a low body fat percentage is going to put you in harms way, so don't go under your healthy low weight range.

Eating fat does not make you fat unless you eat more calories than you burn in a day. Fat is also an essential part of your diet, you brain and nervous system need fat to function.

From personal experience, if I don't hit my fat macro (or come really close) then my body starts telling my brain to grab a spoon and the peanut butter jar. That's a very hard thing for me to resist lol.

Seriously, set your macros to fuel your body, set your calories to lose weight.

Patttience wrote: »

Calories in v calories out works in theory. But our bodies are more complicated than theory.

I struggle to understand precisely what the OP is saying. If you eat ALOT of calories but you burn them all up, no you wouldn't gain. On the other hand if you overeat, you will gain.

Do not eat O% fat. That's unhealthy and you will have health problems resulting if you do it for a while. Fat has real functions in the body. Its not just about storing excess calories. You can look it up yourself by googling. Please do it.

All the basics foods have important functions to keep us healthy. This is why its worthwhile learning about nutrition and what everything does. You don't need to know it all off by heart but you do need to be aware of these things.

If you are already a low body weight, which i suspect, then you should be aware that a low body fat percentage is going to put you in harms way, so don't go under your healthy low weight range.

Calories in v calories out works, period.

Fat as a nutrient isn't the main cause of weight gain, it is mostly carbohydrates in the form of starches or sugars that cause us to put on weight. Try to limit you're sugar intake instead of fat and this will also help lower your calories

SereneJackson wrote: »

So, I was wondering. Say if you had ALOT of calories, but it was all on food with 0% fat. would you gain? Im asking this because I am thinking about allowing myself to have more calories IF bringing down my % fat intake will still allow me to loose weight.

Bringing down my fat % would be counter productive to weight loss as fat helps keep me full and thus not wanting to snack excessively. I go over my fat goal just about every day but am still losing my goal of a pound per week. I reduced calories by reducing foods like bread and other baked goods, which do not fill me up.