Can you not lose fat mass unless you have used all your glycogen up?!


Question: Can you not lose fat mass unless you have used all your glycogen up!?
In order for the body to undergo lipolysis!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Forms of Lipolysis are happening ALL THE TIME all over your body!.

(You don't have an overall 'sugar mode' or 'fat mode', The idea that you can 'switch' from one fuel to the other IS A MYTH!)

You are also constantly converting fats ('fatty acids') into the storage form of fat (triglyceride, or triacylglycerol in the US), and storing it!. Storage and release of fats happen simultaneously; you can 'tip the balance' to make one happen more than the other, but you can't switch either process off completely!.

Fat is ALWAYS the body's preferred fuel!. It is used by the muscle fibres that produce GENTLE movements ('slow-twitch fibres')!. Adding POWER to a movement is done by 'recruiting' fast-twitch fibres that burn sugar!.

Breathing, walking about, typing, moving your eyeballs, and just staying upright, will all activate muscles and use fuel!. Because these movements are gentle they just burn fat!. As you start to move more vigorously, you will stimulate fibres that burn sugar!. If you are VERY vigorously active (for example, running), the waste products from sugarburning will interfere with your ability to use fat!.

(But if you keep your activity level low (Heart rate below about 130 or 140), you can still burn a reasonable amount of fat while getting the benefits of exercising vigorously!. If you exercise gently enough to burn ONLY fat, you can keep going indefinitely!. The fatburning activity will keep encouraging even more fats to be released from storage and converted into a burnable form!.)

If you are vigorous enough for long enough (running about 18 miles or more, in two hours or less), this will 'use all your glycogen up'!. Runners call it 'the wall', and it feels absolutely dreadful because you CANNOT use fat as fuel for the 'sugar tasks' needed to keep you running!.

Using up all of your glycogen will 'switch on' a process called 'neo-glucogenesis' in your liver!. This mildly toxic process manufactures new sugar from other substances, and is only done in emergencies!. When this happens to runners, they are 'through the wall' and get a 'second wind' because of the increased availability of sugar!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

The main supply is glucose (from glycogen) which is used as the prime energy fuel!. After these reserves have been used the body then looks to fat for fuel (lipolysis)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Liposuction would be the only answer to your question!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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