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Ask that to the guy who did the potato diet and lost 100 pounds https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/andrew-taylor-eats-noth...

Or ask fruitarians or vegans who don't exercise and are dangerously underweight.

Also, I don't know. Maybe it's because:

- The body needs fats for more than just the krebs cycle (building hormones and cell walls, namely)

- In low fat diets, the body is starved of this critical macronutrient, so it uses its own stored fat to perform critical functions

Or they're pooping it out for all I know. Chopping off a leg will help you lose weight without "burning" calories.

Either way, the hypothesis that carbohydrates raise blood glucose which raises insulin which tells your endothelial cells to pull in fat for storage and fat cells, and that ketosis puts your body in fat storage release mode, is clearly not the whole picture.



My guess is that potato diet guy is under large caloric deficit, the body needs minimum calories to run basic functions, once those are depleted it starts using the stored fat.

But my understanding of ketosis is that it is a metabolic state during which the body uses the stored fat as a fuel and ultimately all roads must end up at that state for the stored fat to be depleted.




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