Kicked out = storing fat?

(Mike W.) #1

This is something I’ve been pondering. Either you’re in Ketosis or you’re not. So you’re either burning fat (ketones) or storing it? Say you have a really fatty Keto meal and wash it down with 2 super sweet barrel aged stouts. It will obviously kick you out of Ketosis. Is your body going to then want to store that fat?

(John) #2

Yep. And then when it burns off the carbs it will start using stored fat.

(Ken) #3

No.

Since the body burns carbs preferentially, they won’t even make it out of the digestive tract. You’d have to eat lot’s of carbs over a fairly long period, at a level above daily caloric requirements to first fill up your glycogen. Then, you’d still have to eat them in excess before the body starts turning the overcompensated glycogen into triglycerides and stores it as fat.

Eating some occasional carbs merely temporarily suspends lipolysis. It takes a fairly chronic carb pattern before you start storing fat.

(Robert C) #4

I think your body will want to store fat.
The “2 super sweet barrel aged stouts” have sugar and alcohol.
The sugar will spike your insulin (the fat storage hormone) in the presence of lots of dietary fat.
I am not a doctor or scientist but it seems pretty straightforward - sugar raises insulin and causes fat to be stored.

(Mike W.) #5

That’s what I thought Robert. I’m trying to figure out why I keep gaining weight. I don’t track but I also consume only incidental carbs.

(Randy) #6

I think this is correct. Although if this is just an occasional thing (maybe once a month, I doubt you would gain any appreciable fat. Though you may gain a couple of pounds of water weight that would go away in a few days back on LCHF.

(Mike W.) #7

Let’s not get hung up on the alcohol part. What about a super fatty high calorie Keto meal and then a giant slice of cake. Same thing? The important part I’m wondering about is after your kicked out but still have excess calories/fat in your system.

#8

Depends on how much. Once you take in carbs your liver starts refilling on glycogen, then your muscles get theirs, THEN you start spilling over. But as far as having it storing experience tells me its not that tempermental.