02/08/2021
Can you pinch an inch? If so, what you have between your fingers is not bacon fat, butter fat, olive oil, or coconut fat. It is human fat, made by your body, for your body.
Fat you eat gets broken down into fatty acids in your gut and bound as triglycerides to travel in your blood. If you are an effective fat burner those fatty acids get used for energy and repair in your cells.
If you are a sugar burner and or there are a lot of carbohydrates in your gut and blood stream from eating sugar, grains and starchy foods, or if you are insulin resistant, then your insulin levels will rise and something very counterintuitive happens.
The sugar in your system will bind to 3 of those fatty acids and form a triglyceride, as in 3 fatty acids (tri) one sugar (glycerol) = glyceride.
Your body's cells cannot absorb these triglycerides so these newly formed human fats get shuttled off and stored in fat cells and eventually the body will start making new fat in your liver through a process called denovo-lipogenesis with the excess.
This is most strongly seen when fructose is consumed in the form of high fructose corn syrup. At this point not only are your fatty acids being bound as fat to wear on your body but your liver is MAKING new fat from sugar that can lead to fatty liver and visceral fat while also adding to your body fat stores as well.
With higher levels of insulin, the only direct fat storing hormone, it compounds fat gain and stops the process of burning fat and resists losing weight when you try.
There will always be some glucose in your system, even if you never ate a single carb due to the reverse of this process when you lose body fat.
Those stored fats in triglycerides break down and liberate those 3 FAs for fuel and the one glycerol.
Some people tolerate carbs better and are more insulin sensitive or resistant, and others be able to burn fat more readily as well.
Each of these processes can improve and be strengthened. But not from a "diet", but rather a lifestyle.
So, eat those good fats, skip those processed foods and carbs, load up on the nutritious veggies, drink lots of water, use sea salt, and exercise as much as you can...at least do something daily.