I was listening to an interview of Robert Santana on the Art of Manliness podcast discussing diet/nutrition and had a question re: partitioning of fats and carbs.
It was stated that when overfeeding carbs, your body “burns” the carbs preferentially because it’s easiest to process, and since energy needs are accounted for any dietary fat not needed/used for other physiological processes is stored, because that’s the easiest thing for your body to do with it.
So I think my question are;
If I happen to be out to eat or whatever non-routine event and I’m going to have a big fatty piece of meat. Any utility to then avoiding carbs for that meal outside of calorie numbers? Going to skip potatoes and just have broccoli and unsweetened tea.
Opposite situation, lots of carb heavy and/or fat heavy foods available, I know I’m drinking beer so I will be having carbs, is leaning to the carbs and avoiding the fats going to be useful, again, calorie totals being equal?
Or do these processes happen over a longer period of time, and where the “energy” calories come from in any given meal matters less than the average of calories over the day or week?
While I’m at it, I’ve gathered that low carb or low fat diets with moderate to high protein both work. Protein being held constant, any reason moderate fat/low carb some days, low fat/moderate carb other days would work any better or worse than being more consistently low in one or the other category, calories being equal, in regards to fat loss. I know low fat, moderate to higher carb is recommended for training performance reasons.