Fat cycling

[lucabratzi]

not sure if this is a real diet that's been done before but I was Doin keto for about 3 weeks. Had good results and tested positive for ketones.

Bro science started to kick in and it told me since my body has made the transformation into ketosis and is burning fat for fuel what if I dropped my fat intake from 250-270 to about 100?

Would my body realize I'm consuming less cals and since im in a deficit and already in this fat burning state go into a hyper fat burning mode?

Do that for 3-4 days then raise fats back to 250g to keep metabolism intact. Then drop again? So a few days normal high fat keto combined w a few days moderate fat?

 

[Docd187123]

not sure if this is a real diet that's been done before but I was Doin keto for about 3 weeks. Had good results and tested positive for ketones.

Bro science started to kick in and it told me since my body has made the transformation into ketosis and is burning fat for fuel what if I dropped my fat intake from 250-270 to about 100?

Would my body realize I'm consuming less cals and since im in a deficit and already in this fat burning state go into a hyper fat burning mode?

Do that for 3-4 days then raise fats back to 250g to keep metabolism intact. Then drop again? So a few days normal high fat keto combined w a few days moderate fat?

Your metabolism is going to down regulate regardless as you lose weight. The extra weight loss would come from the less calories you'd take in not bc of a super fat burning mode.

 

[lucabratzi]

Your metabolism is going to down regulate regardless as you lose weight. The extra weight loss would come from the less calories you'd take in not bc of a super fat burning mode.

I should've phrased the question differently.

Do you think a persons body would burn fat more effectively going from keto to reduced fat diet (which would be moderate fat). Vs just goin to a moderate fat diet from a maintainence diet.

The main bro science hypothesis is that being in ketosis your body is pulling fat from diet or body for energy. So if U reduce the fat it going to more effectively pull from fat stores.

Not sure if that makes sense.

 

[weighted chinup]

Whatever additional fat burned would be because you increased the deficit by dropping fat even further. Your metabolism would not be improved or boosted. It's all about that deficit.

 

[Docd187123]

I should've phrased the question differently.

Do you think a persons body would burn fat more effectively going from keto to reduced fat diet (which would be moderate fat). Vs just goin to a moderate fat diet from a maintainence diet.

The main bro science hypothesis is that being in ketosis your body is pulling fat from diet or body for energy. So if U reduce the fat it going to more effectively pull from fat stores.

Not sure if that makes sense.

The plan could potentially backfire since going keto with too few carbs will ramp up gluconeogenesis. This means proteins and other substances will be converted to glucose for use as energy. And the only reason you'd see any improvement off what you're doing now is bc of the increased deficit. It's not that by reducing fat intake you more effectively pulled from stored sources. It's you're taking in less energy so the difference must come from stored sources.

 

[JaAg]

I am assuming your NOT talking about getting out of ketosis, because if that is the case, your body is going to use the easier source for fuel (glucose). Rather I think you're talking about lowering the dietary fat (and total calories) while maintaining a very low carb intake.

Lyle Mcdonald talks a lot about this on his website, you've probably been too. I think that is the idea of a keto diet.

You could get a metabolic slowdown slightly because thyroid output can decrease with lower carb intake, a lot of reason people who cycle carbs have (re-feed) days which temporarily increase leptin levels which in turn "normalize" thyroid output and a few other hormones, including some of the appetite orexin hormones downstream.