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why does sugar make us fat
traceyroy54
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Why?
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It doesnt.13
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it doesnt11
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An excess of calories makes us fat, no matter the source of those calories. Sugar calories aren't special.18
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Because many sugary foods tend to be high in fat, driving the calories up. If you overeat these items you will be taking in more calories than your body needs so your body stores it as fat. The same could be said for anything, from cheese to nuts to steak, even broccoli if you are able to eat enough of it to surpass your maintenance calories.10
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If you want to get technical, due to de novo lipogensis, carbs are less likely to convert to fat. Dietary fat, being lipid, tend to convert to fat.
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Ahem, the macro you consume above your daily needs is the one, two, or three macros that make you fat.4
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Because we eat too much of it.7
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Too much food of any kind makes you fat. Period.11
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eating more than you burn makes you fat, not sugar.8
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Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.16
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
A what now?
Ya no. I am bulking... eating mucho nutrition but also plenty of carbs and sugars.. I am gaining but not getting fat (some fat I'm sure but not too much). so, guess my body didn't get the memo?
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
There are calories in beer, which is what matters.
A "beer belly" is caused by being overweight and is the way some people are shaped/store fat. It's not caused by eating too much sugar - it's caused by overeating everything, creating a calorie surplus over time, which causes weight gain.
Eating at a calorie deficit and losing weight will cause a beer belly to shrink. Sometimes a belly can protrude disproportionately due to more visceral fat in the gut, but this can also be taken care of by losing weight with a calorie deficit.18 -
Sugar does not make us fat - excess calories make us fat.12
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
A body can store 1200-2000 calories of glycogen. And it utilizes both glycogen and body fat for sources of fuel constantly depending on your activity level.
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
Solid first post.19 -
imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
That's not accurate on both accounts. You will NEVER gain real weight in a calorie deficit no matter what you eat, and insulin actually signals satiety. You always burn both fat and glycogen no matter what you eat, more fat when you are inactive actually, no matter what you eat. Yes, insulin does trigger fat storage, but the overall result in calorie burn and weight loss is unchanged if you are in an energy deficit because you don't have surplus energy to store as fat.
A low carb diet has its own fat gain mechanisms. These mechanisms may be different and may not require large amounts of insulin, but fat gain happens regardless of how it happens if you are eating too much. Again, You can’t get fatter unless you feed your body more energy than it burns.
Also you cannot generalize your experience with Chinese or carb heavy foods for everyone. I, for one, find starchy carbs pretty satiating.
A side note: protein triggers insulin release as well.9 -
imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
No matter what the documentary told you, if you are in a caloric deficit you cannot gain weight. Even if all you ate was spoonfuls of sugar. It is physics.
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Eating more calories than you burn makes you fat.
Sugar has 15 calories/teaspoon.
All foods in moderation. Sustainability is key for maintaining weight loss.10 -
Realistically, just don't OVERDO it (and this is subjective based on your body/height/goals, etc.)...Honestly, u can eat pizza, cheeseburgers and brownies everyday and lose weight consistently every week (with or without exercise--obviously exercise helps more)...I do agree that some foods are harder to resist eating more of compared to others (ie. french fries vs sweet potatoes)...but that's something you have to learn to control/strategize (esp if u struggle--like if u live alone, instead of buying an entire pizza and cooking it in your oven and putting the leftover in the fridge, you could just go somewhere like Costco and order a couple slices, eat them there and leave).
One thing that really, really hindered my progress when I was obese was setting up this perfect healthy diet plan and inevitably "failing" with "taboo foods" like a slice of pizza or a cookie and then thinking "well, i messed up today or this week, might as well eat the entire pizza or stack of oreos...and start over tomorrow"... this is very dangerous (it's all mental--it's not even real hunger) and won't work in the long run. Eat a couple slices of pizza or have that medium Starbucks frappe (a reasonable amount) and then put your foot down for the day.18 -
because it's addictive. JK.
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
No they don't.
I eat sugar. By your logic I should be gaining weight, not losing it. Please explain how I've lost a little over 90lbs, @imajollyroger? I'm all ears/eyes.
Also, fat does NOT make anyone fat. That's old school weight loss woo.
You know what actually makes all mammals fat?
Excess calories.7 -
traceyroy54 wrote: »Why?
Cos you take sugar and mix it with carbohydrates and fats to create things like cake and cookies
Because mixed together it makes highly palatable, highly calorific and extremely cheap foods that are easy to grab and go
Because sugar on its own is not the culprit, it's the calories in the products you like to snarfle like a piggy
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imajollyroger wrote: »Sugar and carbs absolutely make you fat! What do you think beer belly is? There's no fat in beer. The body converts sugar/carbs into fat if it can't utilize it immediately for fuel. Doesn't matter if excess calories. I can run a calorie deficit and gain weight if I consume too many carbs without using them. Sugar and carbs also make you more hungry like eating Chinese food. Your insulin gets high which blocks your satiety signals to your brain. Your body won't burn fat until the glycogen is depleted. First it uses glycogen, then it uses fat as reserve.
No... Just no.6 -
traceyroy54 wrote: »Why?
You make yourself fat when you consistantly consume more calories than your body needs to maintain a healthy weight. You might consume an excess amount of calories from foods/drinks with sugar or from any other food or drink.
If you choose to consume sugar and other foods within the right number of calories then you will not gain weight.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/understanding-calories.aspx6 -
traceyroy54 wrote: »Why?
Cos you take sugar and mix it with carbohydrates and fats to create things like cake and cookies
Because mixed together it makes highly palatable, highly calorific and extremely cheap foods that are easy to grab and go
Because sugar on its own is not the culprit, it's the calories in the products you like to snarfle like a piggy
Quoting self, cos found this
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Because it hits the same brain receptors as cocaine, thus we want more and more.5
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