FAT is all around us!!!

Today is about FAT in diets:

Well like I said earlier I was going to post my diet for today. Today was a fast pace day so I did not have time to cook for flavor sake and I had to suck it up and swallow most of my meals. I really under ate today so before bed I am going to add a tbp of Naturally More peanut butter and 10 grams of fish oil to add some needed fat. Because I did not eat enough to keep my body packed with nutrients to recover tomorrow is going to be painful.

Today brings one thing up, I need more FAT in my diet in order to lose it. Fat is a structure composed of glycerol and a fatty acid molecule attached to it. But in order to be lean one must enhance protein synthesis and at the same time increase the use the fatty acid utilization for energy. This can be achieved by being in a state of caloric deficiency pushing our body to use stored fat, if the diet is balanced it will not let muscle tissue be broken down. This is my way. The other way is to cut carbohydrates to a very minimum sending our body into a state called ketogenesis. (NOTE: in both diets you still starve)

This is where you have to pick your side.

Side 1) Ketogenesis to Ketosis

When we deprived our bodies of carbohydrates we put ourselves into a starvation state (prolonged or severe exercise also does this) this state forces our body to use fat as energy since there is not enough glycogen for ATP. This is called Ketogenesis, in this state our body uses fat to produce ketone bodies (mainly because our brain cannot simply use fat as it is but rather it needs ketone bodies). The ketone bodies not only provide energy but keep our pH balance in our blood steady within normal limits this makes ketosis somewhat of protein-tissue conserving action.

So triacylglycerols in the adipose tissue by the action of the hormone-sensitive lipase are subjected to Beta oxidation to form acetyl CoA this molecule goes through different processes in short to form aceto acetate to D-3-hydroxybutyrate and then KEtone bodies are produced and leave the mitochondrion by a carrier mechanism in exchange for PYRUVATE (NOTE: this complicated metabolic process and the fact pyruvate is exchanged for ketone bodies is the idea behind 24 hrs fitness fat burner, pyruvate, ah little do they know it does not works as easy. The extra intake of pyruvate would do nothing in increasing the usage of adipose tissue as ketone bodies).

What does this means? It means that there is a whole camp of followers that believe putting our body into a state of ketosis by depriving carbs will allow you to burn more fat and lose more weight by giving you body no choice but to use fatty acids for energy. If you do this you will be into a state of feeling extremely tired.

And guys we use the cholesterol molecule in ORDER to produce TESTOSTERONE, so be warned you may bee too tired for your GF…

This means you have to eat FREQUENTLY in order to minimized muscle lost.

So why if I do not eat fat I still gained weight? Well you see carbohydrates increase glucose in our system, and glucose can be metabolized into ATP, glycogen and FAT. Thus excess of carbs will sure produced fat in your body, so if you eat it make sure you burn it.

Side 2) Caloric restriction and Nutrient specific intake

This is more of a general area. The nutrients you take will be clean and mostly low glycemic, save for the high glycemic carbs you may or may not have after a workout.

This means your nutrients are still limited and carbs are used wisely according to the level of activity you are taking. Protein is used more and fat is still the lowest of them in terms of intake. This is not a low fat diet but could be considered as one.

The caloric deficiency and the fact that both Judo and Weightlifting decrease stores of Glycogen and ATP still sends our body into a state where during certain parts of the day it needs to use fat as energy, ketosis. Also the intake of fat in your diet (good sources of fat not mayo) will tell our body we are not really on a starvation state, and in fact, we are on a state where plenty of food is laying around so getting rid of some of the fat stores is good.

This diet means that you have to eat FREQUENTLY in order to send the correct message to our body. This type of eating keeps your glucose steady and is able to keep glucagon low. You are a nutrient burning machine and you can use the nutrient portioning more efficient.

Needles to say this seems the healthier, maybe not the fastest, way to lose this fat around me—this is also the oldest around. The fact that I still need to deal with competition training makes my decision easier.

We’ll talk about carbohydrate metabolism later and why BCAAs are the best thing ever!

NOTE: I am not a doctor in metabolism, just a student.