Protein and fat

Nicola · Protein and fat

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Here's a couple articles from this week:

Al Sears, MD
Author of The Doctor's Heart Cure

The Importance of Protein

If you want to shed pounds and build lean muscle you should eat protein at every meal.

Protein is the only daily essential macronutrient. Fat is also essential, but you can survive
longer without fat than you can without protein. Carbohydrates, the third macronutrient,
are completely inessential to your diet. In other words, your body can make whatever carbs
it needs on its own.

Quality protein is your single most important nutritional concern. It's composed of 20
amino acids, eight of which you can't make and must consume. To be optimally healthy,
you must consume all eight of these essential amino acids every day.

Protein is an important component of every cell in your body. Hair and nails are mostly
made of protein. Your body uses protein to build and repair tissues. You also use protein
to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. It is an important building block
of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood.

But unlike fat and carbohydrates, the body does not store protein, and therefore has no
reserve to draw on when it needs a new supply. Over consuming protein actually programs
your body to burn fat. It throws on a "metabolic switch" and tells your body that it's okay
to burn fat.

Here's why: Your body is not a machine. It's a living, sentient being that makes decisions
based on the challenges it faces everyday.

Your body's number one priority is survival. And protein is your body's most prized power
source. Under normal circumstances, your body keeps fat on reserve for one reason: to
prevent starvation.

But when your body has more protein than it needs, its survival is not threatened. It then
feels "safe" enough to start burning off its fat stores.

Over-consuming protein is one of the easiest, most reliable ways of triggering high-speed
fat loss. In addition, you'll guarantee your body has the building blocks it needs for
optimum health.

Dustyboy

That is awesome, thanks Nicola.

Erasmus

Interesting. That would seem to be in conflict with the idea that XS protein is simply converted to carbs and so XS protein would actually cause a BG spike and a subsequent insulin response and fat storage.

Perhaps fat utilization is bell shaped along the protein consumption continuum?

If it is, maybe it peaks out around the egg's P/F ratio. Why egg? If I recall, several people have reported outstanding success with weight loss during the Egg challenges.

Just trying to piece it all together.

-E

Boondawgle

Flymaster

So how much is enough and how much is too much? Dr Sears wasn't too specific on that point.

Erasmus

Boondawgle

Basically eat to your hunger. Don't eat so much fat that you get queasy, but eat enough to satisfy your hunger. 80-20 is a good ratio to start from and then adjust it depending on how you feel.

Kristi31

Personally, 80-20 was too much for me. I don't know how much will be good for me eventually but that ratio was too high. Obsessing about that number got me into trouble for more than a year. Sad

cabalco

The 80:20 ratio is not good for me. I have lost too much weight, this amount of fat just overhelmes my system. But sometimes i feel really good, sometimes it makes me sick. I can eat 4 eggs with 80g of butter and the one day i feel like god, the other day i feel like a crap... I think i am much better with 60:40 or 70:30, but i still do not know.

In the Schaub book there is a diagram of BG after a protein meal, i think protein does not matter much. In my opinion, when you want to lose weight eat the 80:20 ratio. In other cases stay better to 60:40.