Question on Calories
After finishing your book I have noticed there is few mentions of calories in the diet or nutrition section.
I would like to know what your take is on excess calories turning to fat? does this still apply whilst using the hibernation diet?
I ask as before reading the hibernation diet I had controlled my weight by eating less calories than my calorific needs for the day, can I eat above these calorific needs and still lose fat if I have a spoon of honey before sleeping?
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 3:27 PM
1 Comments:
The book is to provide simple guidelines and to provide people with an approach which optimises recovery biology.
This is the first book which focuses on the true use of fats, the way the body uses them, for rest and recovery and only within a narrow margin during exercise.
Strength athletes have no difficulty shedding fats because they use resistance work which raises metabolic rate during recovery (EPOC) and recovery biology is fat burning biology.
You will optimise your recovery biology by fuelling the liver prior to bed.
Let us assume you have taken your total intake by 7 in the evening.
Assuming you had fuelled your liver optimally at your last meal and the liver depletion rate of 10 grams per hour resulted in liver glycogen of around 20-30 grams at 12pm.
This is enough for up to 3 hours and although there are other fuels available (lactate, pyruvate and glycerol) the brain will be forced to activate the adrenals and your recovery will be compromised.
If you supply honey, for optimal liver uptake in the case of a depleted liver and if this honey provides extra calories above your required intake do you think the brain would give a hoot and go to all the trouble of converting these to fats?
The most logical part of the human brain is the limbic system (the unconscious) and this acts at all times to stabilise the body biologically (homeostasis) including the most critical question of all - fuelling the brain via stable blood glucose.
If the liver was short of fuel and you presented it with extra calories for liver uptake the brain would have to be daft to convert these to fats, would it not?
The brain needs glucose to survive, not fat.
It would be a pretty stupid option for the brain to activate the conversion of these calories into fats when it needs glucose to survive the night fast, and then having converted them into fat would have to shred muscle to maintain its life.
Whether you had or had not taken in your full complement of calories prior to this would be of little interest.
Its metabolic life takes precedence over every other question.
If you provide the body with the resources and the metabolic environment (stable blood glucose via a fuelled liver) to activate recovery biology during the night fast it will do so and you will burn fat.
If not, not.
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