Eli5…. when do we put on the fat? Is it immediately after eating those extra calories? Once a week? When?
When do you lose the fat? Right when you start eating less calories? Sorry… just confused and wondering
Thanks for your responses
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Imagine a crew of people and they are munching apples, gnawing, gnawing, gnawing.
Apples (representing fat) keep arriving by truck and get put on these big trestle tables (your blood stream). People feed from the tables and put excess on barrels. If there are not enough you reach on the long-storage barrel to get another bunch until the truck arrives.
Apples represent fat here, remember.
When the truck instead brings a load of apple pie (representing sugar – rather glucose), the supervisor goes and clangs on the bell – people call it “insulin” – and screams like this:
“Good times boys! No raw apples today!”. (Because of course apple pie is better!) “You people clear the tables for those pies! Dump that stuff in the barrels.”
So as long as there’s pies, nobody eats raw apples. But these keep arriving, and so they don’t pile up on the tables they get stored on the barrels immediately because there’s no use for them now.
Note that pies MUST have priority, not only because people like them, but they spoil a lot faster (too much sugar in bloodstream will mess you up, starting with damaging your kidneys). So they gotta go first.
If there’s too much apple pie, these madmen will even take out the slices of apple, make an apple (don’t dive too deep into this, and yes there’s some waste there), and store it in the barrels (this represents sugar converted to fat and then stored)
In short, having insulin high in your blood tells your body to prioritise glucose, store fat and not remove it from storage.
Also – if they had a proper roasted chicken they’d care for neither. Just saying.
Or chocolate. Or… chocolate cake, the sort that dribles… with cream… moist and warm…
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