It pisses me off when some keto marketroid says ‘Oh you need to go on a fat eating spree you’ll become keto-adapted and burn an ass-load of fat for energy yay keto is the best.’ Intermittent fasting lover who goes all ‘Yeah you know when you’re in a fasting state your body starts burning fat instead of storing it’ is dumb as a bucket too.
Whether you oxidize (“burn”) more fat or carbs is utterly irrelevant when it comes to losing body fat because…
Fat oxidation is not the same as body fat loss
Fat oxidation or “burning” is the process of breaking triglycerides into smaller molecules that can then be used as a source of energy to fuel your life. Body fat loss on the other hand is the process of fat mass decreasing over time.
Yay science.
But here’s the deal: Burning fat for energy and losing body fat, even though they sound the same, are two different things. As Layne Norton, PhD in Nutritional Sciences, once wrote:
I feel like you’d appreciate a few examples. Here goes.
