How Nutrients Get Stored As Fat

By Katherine Crawford M.S.

If you want to avoid the multitude of negative side effects from high protein diets, your fat loss approach should have a balanced eating plan in place. And balanced eating will give you a lot more energy per calorie of food consumed.

Even if you have the most balanced diet, however, fat storage can still take place. So it will be good for you to understand how different macro nutrients get processed in your body once consumed.

Thus, here is how what you eat gets turned into body fat:

1. Carbohydrates. With the exception of fiber, ALL carbohydrates are broken down to the most basic units of sugar. Once broken down, they get reassembled into glycogen. If you eat too much and have an excess of your glycogen needs, you will store fat.

2. Fat. Dietary fat gets broken down into glycerol and fatty acids. Have too much, and you will store dietary fat in the form of triglycerides. But do nost reduce your fat intake because you need it to maximize the production of fat burning hormones.

3. Steak, fish, poultry. All types of protein, they get broken down into amino acids. These amino acids will then be reconfigured into muscle. But there is a catch: you have to exercise in order for this to happen!

4. Spirits. By spirits I mean alcohol! The Achilles heel of any fat loss hopeful. Why? Because not only does alcohol slow down the rate at which you can burn body fat, but it also gets stored as fat in between your organs. And this is the worst type of fat.

Your body has a limited capacity to store food as glycogen or muscle mass. So any excess here will get stored as body fat. I repeat: ANY excess gets stored as body fat.

Also, make sure you do not go overboard with protein just because it has a high thermic effect. Despite this, excess protein does get stored as body fat when too much is consumed. So no matter how you eat, a negative intake is necessary for rapid fat loss. - 29951

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