2 questions: If you equalize calorie expenditure, what would be the difference between using fat for fuel or glycogen? Would you end up losing the same amount of body fat at the end of a day, week or month? What about appetite control? If you continue to eat less food or fewer calories, won't your metabolism adapt and slow down as well? So, wouldn't you end up getting hungrier and hungrier as a result? Thanks.
Well if you're using glycogen for fuel, you're not using body fat. You'll still lose body weight but there's only a limited amount of glycogen in your body, so it's not a lot of weight. If you eat less you will lose weight so when your metabolism slows down it will start to be closer to your natural metabolism anyways. When your metabolism slows down, you don't get hungrier, perhaps quite the opposite because you don't need as many calories to survive anymore. This takes time as if you're used to eating 3000 calories the habit of eating that will make you feel super hungry if you only eat 2000.
2 questions:
If you equalize calorie expenditure, what would be the difference between using fat for fuel or glycogen? Would you end up losing the same amount of body fat at the end of a day, week or month?
What about appetite control? If you continue to eat less food or fewer calories, won't your metabolism adapt and slow down as well? So, wouldn't you end up getting hungrier and hungrier as a result?
Thanks.
Well if you're using glycogen for fuel, you're not using body fat. You'll still lose body weight but there's only a limited amount of glycogen in your body, so it's not a lot of weight.
If you eat less you will lose weight so when your metabolism slows down it will start to be closer to your natural metabolism anyways. When your metabolism slows down, you don't get hungrier, perhaps quite the opposite because you don't need as many calories to survive anymore. This takes time as if you're used to eating 3000 calories the habit of eating that will make you feel super hungry if you only eat 2000.