Food and Calorie Burn

floridagirl7264 wrote: »

I'm hope this doesn't sound dumb, but are there any foods that get burned before getting stored into fat? How long does it take before a calorie that isn't burned gets stored into fat? I know that calories have to burned off through exercise, but obviously I can't workout after every meal.

You don't have to burn the calories immediately. You don't have to try to prevent any calories from ever being stored as fat. It's a continuous process, with energy (calories) going into storage (fat, glyclogen) and being taken out of storage, as needed. Just worry about the net energy balance (calories-in versus calories-out) over the full day, or even the full week. And as ForeverSunshine said, it doesn't really matter for fat storage which foods you're eating. It's just about the total calories in the food, versus the total calories your body uses (more of which are likely going to just normal body functions and daily activity than to exercise burns, unless you are working out intensively for at least several hours every day).