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If that were true, calorie restriction would be entirely unnecessary. You could eat 30,000 calories of fat and protein and never gain an ounce, so long as you ate every 3-4 hours.Originally Posted by shrinkingsusie
Wouldn't it only be converted to glucose and then stored as fat if you are in starvation mode? From what I have read (mostly online, so not sure how accurate the info is) is that if you are eating every 3-4 hours, you just eliminate all of the excess.
Lordy, wouldn't that be awesome!
Sadly, it isn't true, at least not for most of us. I have stalled and even gained on ketogenic diets because I ate too many calories (and not because I ate too infrequently to keep me from "starvation mode").
If you take in more calories than you burn, odds are that a good portion of the extra will be stored as fat regardless of where the excess comes from. Carbs though are the most easily and efficiently turned to fat. This means to lose the same amount of weight, you can probably eat more protein and fat than carbs, but you can still store fat if you eat enough calories.