Struggling with the eating fat logic

[Boardingblues]

So I get the bit about not eating carbs so that calories are gained from proteins and fat and that the objective is to burn fat…. But surely if I eat fat, it is that fat that will get burnt first and my fat, the stuff I want rid of, will just sit there, unused! Someone please explain this to me!

baddz the only that I can suggest is to look up as much delicious recipes as possible on the recipe thread on low carb bootcamp and my 2 favourites.

Clothesmakeththegirl

And

Ibreathimhungry

And the other plus with low carb or paleo is that you don't need to suppress or fight your hunger for food generally ( just certain foods maybe ). This, IMO is incredibly damaging.

Sass I've read the Loren Cordain / Joe Friel book on Paleo for Athletes. They recommend the same sort of approach as Nell Stephenson - carbs for racing / tough training, carbs for recovery, low carb rest of the time.

I'm doing Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire in June. And a Sprint and an Olympic to warm up for it. I'm not nearly ready enough….so need to go with all the potential gains I can since I can't turn back the clock to do a better 4 months or so of training….

Sorry OP, derailing your thread a bit. We had a low carbing athlete thread somewhere I believe.

Baddzz, Paleo recipes have no dairy. Whilst some may be too high in carbs, many will still be suitable. There's a great selection on www.nomnompaleo.com

If I were you, I would probably stick with paleo and carb load for the race. Then after the season ends (winter training) I would go lc.

Are you north west? I would laugh if you were actually in my tri club!

Thank you

Clothesmakeththegirl is paleo

I'm in London, Sass. And not a member of a tri club as I'm so restricted on when I can train due to small children, DH's work hours, my work, etc.

I'm in that situation too pootle but it's only £25 a year and then you get a discount on most races for being affiliated.

Professor Robert H. Lustig, MD has a very interesting youtube video called Sugar the bitter truth, he sure does promote fibre and decries the little that we eat in the western world.

high fibre foods along prove that a calorie is not a calorie as they move through the body in a different way to food without fibre but both would give the same amount of calories in a reading - but not in the human body

Also a good read on the subject - The Calorie Myth by Jonathon Bailor.

sleep - have you watch "fat chance" that was linked to earlier?

Sorry ivy I haven't seen it and scrolled through but can't spot link. Can you point me to it please?

Google professor Robert Lustig fat chance and the YouTube clip will come up
He is a world renowned endocrinologist, has studied law and became an expert on obesity. His other very informative video is sugar the bitter truth

Both clips are around an hour long

His other clip that saff linked to he explains that a rather than giving drugs to make the body register insulin following a low carb way of eating could be used

Please though take a look at fat chance

Will do

Anyone watching The Truth About Fat, on now?

It was a bit rubbish. So eating no fat is bad for you, 30% of your calories should come from fat, only dairy saturated fat is good for you and we should eat lots of rapeseed oil and have oily fish once a week. No useful information there then.