why callories control, not fat?
rahmat_hidayat
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Hi,can someone advice? Why the application for controlling callories rather than fat ? Because my plan is to reduce weight and burn fat. Thx
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Fat does not make you fat. You can have a low fat diet and still overeat. Fat is necessary in a diet.28
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The brain needs a certain amount of fat to function productively.6
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Reduce calories = reduce weight. Don't restrict too much, and a greater percentage of that will be from your fat stores. Your body needs some dietary fat to function properly.7
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Drives me so crazy when people think dietary fat makes you fat. Carbohydrates are the worst macronutrient. But weightloss is down to consuming less calories than you exhume. Just make sure those calories come from healthy, wholesome foods!!3
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joannepimley wrote: »Drives me so crazy when people think dietary fat makes you fat. Carbohydrates are the worst macronutrient. But weightloss is down to consuming less calories than you exhume. Just make sure those calories come from healthy, wholesome foods!!
Irks me when people demonize ANY macronutrient, even carbs.58 -
It drives you crazy when people demonize one macronutrient while you demonize a different one?joannepimley wrote: »Drives me so crazy when people think dietary fat makes you fat. Carbohydrates are the worst macronutrient.
30 years ago, carbs were king and fat was terrible. That wasn't any more right or wrong than the reverse thinking that's widely disseminated now.23 -
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Calories in, calories out. Caloric deficit for weight loss. If you're interested in only cutting out fats, you may not see results as fast as you'd like. If you're worried about fat intake, just log it if it's an issue to you due to health problems, because as mentioned above, the body does need fat to process your food.
Since I have no gall bladder, I have to avoid greasy foods, but I still consume fat, just enough so my body doesn't go insane. Best of luck!
Maybe someone here can help you figure out what the ideal intake may be for you. I forgot the link, sadly, but plenty of people here that can point you in the right direction
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30 years ago, carbs were king and fat was terrible. That wasn't any more right or wrong than the reverse thinking that's widely disseminated now.
Has it really been that long since the "fat free" craze? Wow I feel old. Now the "in" thing is gluten free this and gluten free that. Because now suddenly everyone has a gluten intolerance. ooops, I better not go there.
I haven't even bothered searching what a gluten is. .-.
That's all gibberish to me >.> lol4 -
Its may not be that people demonize, or think fat is the enemy just because they want too. But many people were taught that way and do not know the differences in macro nutrients. Instead of getting angry at them and making them seem ignorant, educate them! Not everyone knows everything someone else may know 11
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The fat you eat is not the fat stored in your body, unless you eat more calories of it than your body is burning.
There are 4 main macronutrients that are used by the body for energy, and how much energy is in each food is determined by calories:
Fat has 9 calories
Protein and carbohydrates have roughly 4 calories
Alcohol has about 7 calories
Your body needs a certain amount of calories to sustain living and activities, and if it doesn't get that amount through food it will tap into stored fat reserves. Even if you ate nothing but butter all day, but did not give your body the calories it needs, it would still tap into your body fat reserves for more energy and you will lose body fat, and even if you ate no fatty foods at all but was providing your body with more energy than it needs it will use the excess to store this energy as body fat. You shouldn't confuse body fat with dietary fat.
To lose body fat, you need to force your body to burn body fat by not giving it all the energy it needs. You do that by reducing your food intake by a certain amount of calories. This guarantees weight loss. Reducing dietary fat does not guarantee weight loss because the calories of the rest of your macronutrients can be lower, higher or the same as the energy your body needs. That's why this app controls calories not fat, because it's more accurate and gets more consistent results.
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Hi,can someone advice? Why the application for controlling callories rather than fat ? Because my plan is to reduce weight and burn fat. Thx
To answer your question with a wikipedia source:
Fat digestion[edit]
Main article: Fatty acid metabolism § Dietary sources of fatty acids, their digestion, absorption, transport in the blood and storage
Digestion of some fats can begin in the mouth where lingual lipase breaks down some short chain lipids into diglycerides. However fats are mainly digested in the small intestine.[17] The presence of fat in the small intestine produces hormones that stimulate the release of pancreatic lipase from the pancreas and bile from the liver which helps in the emulsification of fats for absorption of fatty acids.[17] Complete digestion of one molecule of fat (a triglyceride) results a mixture of fatty acids, mono- and di-glycerides, as well as some undigested triglycerides, but no free glycerol molecules"
Which is another way of saying that fat is digested into stuff your body needs to live.
All food has calories. Calories are the ultimate determining factor in weight regulation. When you consume more calories than you burn, you gain weight. When you burn more calories than you consume, you lose weight. It is largely immaterial in the short run if you get your calories from a mono macro such as only carbs, only protein, only fat, or only sugar. In all cases the calories consumed in relation to the calories burned determine if you will gain or lose.
You can eat a well-balanced food intake with a reasonable distribution of carbs, protein, fat, and sugar with a pleasant variety and successfully consume fewer calories than you burn. You will find that certain foods leave you feeling satiated longer than others, and you should choose to include those satiating foods in reasonable portions at each meal.5 -
30 years ago, carbs were king and fat was terrible. That wasn't any more right or wrong than the reverse thinking that's widely disseminated now.
Has it really been that long since the "fat free" craze? Wow I feel old. Now the "in" thing is gluten free this and gluten free that. Because now suddenly everyone has a gluten intolerance. ooops, I better not go there.
I think we've even moved on from that now ... now it's all low carb. Give it a few years and it'll be protein's turn ... low protein.
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joannepimley wrote: »Drives me so crazy when people think dietary fat makes you fat. Carbohydrates are the worst macronutrient. But weightloss is down to consuming less calories than you exhume. Just make sure those calories come from healthy, wholesome foods!!
Irks me when people demonize ANY macronutrient, even carbs.
Precisely this. It's idiotic.7 -
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Off course we need fat but the current situation may be already overlimit in the body. So is it wrong to avoid fatty foods for dietary? Is it a myth..0
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Off course we need fat but the current situation may be already overlimit in the body. So is it wrong to avoid fatty foods for dietary? Is it a myth..
It is a myth. Unless you have a medical reason, there is no need to avoid anything. Fat's fine, dairy's fine, gluten is fine, carbs are GREAT!, protein's fine etc.7 -
Off course we need fat but the current situation may be already overlimit in the body. So is it wrong to avoid fatty foods for dietary? Is it a myth..
The body needs fat for hormones to function correctly. Body fat is only used for energy when there isn't enough energy. It's not used to support body functions that require dietary fat. So even if you have a lot of fat stored, you still need to eat fat.4 -
Off course we need fat but the current situation may be already overlimit in the body. So is it wrong to avoid fatty foods for dietary? Is it a myth..
If you're overweight, the current situation is over limit on everything. Why cut down just fat? Yeah if you used to eat two sticks of butter everyday, you probably should cut back on that. But the goal is to reduce your total energy intake, hence the app helps you do that. If you want to accomplish it by cutting back primary on fat, that's up to you. But the tool would not be doing anyone any favors to only track one macro. We could be down in fat but way up in carbs, protein or alcohol and still wind up in a total energy surplus, in which case we would not lose weight. So we want to know our total calorie intake, not just fat7 -
Thanks and i need time to think and understand that. Because It is different from information i got so far and my friend's dietary practices.0
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amusedmonkey wrote: »The fat you eat is not the fat stored in your body, unless you eat more calories of it than your body is burning.
There are 4 main macronutrients that are used by the body for energy, and how much energy is in each food is determined by calories:
Fat has 9 calories
Protein and carbohydrates have roughly 4 calories
Alcohol has about 7 calories
Your body needs a certain amount of calories to sustain living and activities, and if it doesn't get that amount through food it will tap into stored fat reserves. Even if you ate nothing but butter all day, but did not give your body the calories it needs, it would still tap into your body fat reserves for more energy and you will lose body fat, and even if you ate no fatty foods at all but was providing your body with more energy than it needs it will use the excess to store this energy as body fat. You shouldn't confuse body fat with dietary fat.
To lose body fat, you need to force your body to burn body fat by not giving it all the energy it needs. You do that by reducing your food intake by a certain amount of calories. This guarantees weight loss. Reducing dietary fat does not guarantee weight loss because the calories of the rest of your macronutrients can be lower, higher or the same as the energy your body needs. That's why this app controls calories not fat, because it's more accurate and gets more consistent results.
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Thanks and this is very clear explanation to me. Can you advise me more to the point. So do you mean I am liberty to eat barbeque, beef satay, chocolate, and the like as long as total daily calorries under target?5
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Thanks and this is very clear explanation to me. Can you advise me more to the point. So do you mean I am liberty to eat barbeque, beef satay, chocolate, and the like as long as total daily calorries under target?
Yes, absolutely. In fact, I make room for ice cream and chocolate topping regularly. I wouldn't give it up for the world.6 -
Thanks and i need time to think and understand that. Because It is different from information i got so far and my friend's dietary practices.
this is what happens when you have the blind leading the blind.
Your body requires that you burn more energy in order to use it's stored energy reserves (fat cells). Our bodies get energy (also called calories) from macronutrients.
All of the food we eat is made up of macronutrients: proteins, carbs, and fats and these provide energy, and micronutrients the vitamins and minerals we need.
So if you can understand.... it is an excess in total calories which causes your body to store energy. When you eat less energy than your body needs it uses it's stored energy.
The "fat" you eat is NOT body fats. An excess of any macronutrient which causes you to overeat total calories causes weight gain.4 -
Thanks and this is very clear explanation to me. Can you advise me more to the point. So do you mean I am liberty to eat barbeque, beef satay, chocolate, and the like as long as total daily calorries under target?
Yep.
Just make sure you select the right entries and log accurately. There are some great links stickied at the top of the forums. I like these two myself:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p13 -
Thanks and this is very clear explanation to me. Can you advise me more to the point. So do you mean I am liberty to eat barbeque, beef satay, chocolate, and the like as long as total daily calorries under target?
Yes, absolutely. In fact, I make room for ice cream and chocolate topping regularly. I wouldn't give it up for the world.
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Haha sure 100% agree.0
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Off course we need fat but the current situation may be already overlimit in the body. So is it wrong to avoid fatty foods for dietary? Is it a myth..
It is a myth. Unless you have a medical reason, there is no need to avoid anything. Fat's fine, dairy's fine, gluten is fine, carbs are GREAT!, protein's fine etc.
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Thanks and this is very clear explanation to me. Can you advise me more to the point. So do you mean I am liberty to eat barbeque, beef satay, chocolate, and the like as long as total daily calorries under target?
Yes!!! You have got it
You have complete liberty to eat the satay, chocolate, and barbecue.
Keep calories under target and you will lose fat.
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