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>Common wisdom says that the body goes in hunger mode if you restrict calories. Is it common wisdom though? As far as I know common wisdom says that if you res

by Dah00n 5y ago

>Common wisdom says that the body goes in hunger mode if you restrict calories. Is it common wisdom though? As far as I know common wisdom says that if you restrict calories then the blood sugar drops and that cause the body to go into hunger mode. The difference being that you can eat, say, 1000 calories of your normal diet and go into hunger mode or you can eat a diet that causes the blood sugar to be stable and not go into hunger mode. This is one of the two main reasons LCHF work so well (the other being that you are way less hungry after 1000 calories of a high fat diet than after 1000 calories of high sugar).

hsn915 5y ago
I'm very skeptical of the claims about Insulin being a cause of weight gain or preventing weight loss. All insulin is, is a signal to cells to absorb sugar from the blood. Think of it this way: if you consume dietery fat, your body will obviously not ignore this fat in your blood and start pulling fat out of your fat storage. It will wait for the fat flowing through your blood to be all used up first. Why would sugar be any different? You have to believe that the design of the calorie input management system is so broken that it reacts so badly to carbs but doesn't react in any negative way to fats. There's another "theory" of diebetes too: that excess fat int he cells blocks insulin reception. So if you consume high fat, you better not consume any carbs with it or else your body won't know what to do with it. Now, think about it from an evolutionary point of view. Our ancestors have been sustaining themselves on farming carbs for thousands of years (potato, rice, grains, etc). We should all be very well adapted to a diet that is a mix of carbs and fats and proteins. What is different in the modern age is not an excess of carbs; it's the lack of movement. Athletic people consume upwards of 3000 calories per day with no problems.

by Dah00n 5y ago

hsn915 5y ago

I'm very skeptical of the claims about Insulin being a cause of weight gain or preventing weight loss. All insulin is, is a signal to cells to absorb sugar from the blood. Think of it this way: if you consume dietery fat, your body will obviously not ignore this fat in your blood and start pulling fat out of your fat storage. It will wait for the fat flowing through your blood to be all used up first. Why would sugar be any different? You have to believe that the design of the calorie input management system is so broken that it reacts so badly to carbs but doesn't react in any negative way to fats. There's another "theory" of diebetes too: that excess fat int he cells blocks insulin reception. So if you consume high fat, you better not consume any carbs with it or else your body won't know what to do with it. Now, think about it from an evolutionary point of view. Our ancestors have been sustaining themselves on farming carbs for thousands of years (potato, rice, grains, etc). We should all be very well adapted to a diet that is a mix of carbs and fats and proteins. What is different in the modern age is not an excess of carbs; it's the lack of movement. Athletic people consume upwards of 3000 calories per day with no problems.