How many calories to burn fat Keto style?

(Jenell Rachelle) #1

I was wondering if it would be easier considering the it take 3500 to burn a pound…

(LeeAnn Brooks) #2

Keto doesn’t work through CICO. It works by controlling insulin levels. Calories are not important.

(Mike W.) #3

A pound of what?

(karen) #4

Are you asking if it’s easier to burn 3500 calories of stored fat (one pound) on keto than SAD?

I think the real answer is that the more we learn about how the body accesses and processes different macronutrients from food and from its own resources, the less we know. It’s pretty clear there’s more to the equation than simply counting calories, different macronutrients of the same calorie count seem to result in different weight and body composition. (in other words, eating 3500 calories of butter and 3500 calories of twinkies will affect the body differently, and doing this after becoming fat adapted will produce two different results as well.)

(Michelle) #5

Calories in = Calories out only works if you are a toaster.

(karen) #6

Nice!! :grin:

(Leslie) #7

I’m confused.
It takes 3500 to burn a pound…?

Are we taking about calories?
Are we talking about fat?

I’ve burned all kinds of fat without deliberately burning any calories with some kind of exogenous caloric burn

I’m confused as to your inquiry

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #8

Exercise doesn’t help with weight loss, except indirectly. It does encourage the growth of new mitochondria and new muscle tissue, which will increase your resting metabolic rate, and it does help heal insulin resistance, which will allow your body to metabolize more fat.

If you eat very little carbohydrate, a moderate amount of protein, and fat to satiety, you will be giving your body enough energy that it will be willing to stop hoarding all its extra stored fat. It will then signal you to stop eating when you’ve given it enough energy to burn off both the calories you eat and some calories from your stored fat.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #9

I kicked CICO to the curb, been maintaining my goal weight for over a year now. If you still function that way you might want to read this:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #10

Ah, Kevin Hall’s model! Dr. Mike Eades seems to think it’s fairly accurate, even though Hall thinks LCHF/keto is nonsense. You can go to the NIH Web site and check it out.

#11

IIRC, walking a mile burns 100 calories for the average person, so they’d need to do two marathons to burn off one pound? :frowning:

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #12

That is why CICO is bull shit as far as I am concerned. I have tracked enough to know the maths never worked out properly for what my food log app and fitbit was telling me. I don’t know if the math guy is correct either.

That is why I just KCKO and fast when I feel like it workings for me. Two years, into keto and almost a year in of fasting protocols, over a year in maintenance.