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Do you think the human body runs on combustion? A calorie is a measurement of how much heat energy would be released by your food if you lit it on fire. Your body extracts the "energy" in food through chemical processes.
Ever shit out a piece of corn? There was energy in that corn that you ate that was never used by your body for anything. You consumed calories that were never used for energy or fat storage because your body couldn't chemically extract the nutrients in the corn.
Protein rebuilds lean body mass and is unlikely to be converted to fat in your body. Eating protein increases your metabolism because digesting it is energy intensive, much more so than carbs/fat. Fiber has energy in it that can't be used by the body. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram but most of the alcohol consumed gets turned into acetaldehyde and excreted, with less than 10 percent of calories converted to ATP for energy use.
Fat storage is the result of hormonal signalling mainly from insulin. If you're eating a bunch of sugar you will gain more weight than a diet with the same amount of calories with no sugar, because you are spiking your insulin causing it to store fat with the high sugar diet. Overeating fat will spike insulin as well.The insulin then crashes and causes hunger hormones to be released, making you more likely to overeat after.
Tracking calories is only ever a directional guess on the quantity of food you should eat to lose weight. People lose weight counting calories because they are eating less overall, but it's not the perfect math that people claim it is.
Do you think the human body runs on combustion? A calorie is a measurement of how much heat energy would be released by your food if you lit it on fire. Your body extracts the "energy" in food through chemical processes.
Ever shit out a piece of corn? There was energy in that corn that you ate that was never used by your body for anything. You consumed calories that were never used for energy or fat storage because your body couldn't chemically extract the nutrients in the corn.
Protein rebuilds lean body mass and is unlikely to be converted to fat in your body. Eating protein increases your metabolism because digesting it is energy intensive, much more so than carbs/fat. Fiber has energy in it that can't be used by the body. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram but most of the alcohol consumed gets turned into acetaldehyde and excreted, with less than 10 percent of calories converted to ATP for energy use.
Fat storage is the result of hormonal signalling mainly from insulin. If you're eating a bunch of sugar you will gain more weight than a diet with the same amount of calories with no sugar, because you are spiking your insulin causing it to store fat with the high sugar diet. Overeating fat will spike insulin as well.The insulin then crashes and causes hunger hormones to be released, making you more likely to overeat after.
Tracking calories is only ever a directional guess on the quantity of food you should eat to lose weight. People lose weight counting calories because they are eating less overall, but it's not the perfect math that people claim it is.
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