can you burn carbs?

[dkbrass]

say i want to stay about 20 carbs

say i eat 30 over

can i burn some for compensation?

ie walking , swimming, biking ect.......

[rhaazz]

No. Increased exercise does not compensate for increased carb consumption.

You *can* get into ketosis even when you're eating a diet with plenty of carbs -- even a diet primarily composed of carbs. But this is possible only if you (1) starve yourself by eating way too few calories or (2) run a marathon or other strenuous exercise lasting more than three hours that completely exhausts your glycogen stores. Either way, you're going to feel terribly weak because of the extreme measures you took to get your body to burn its stored fat.

The way I understand it from Dr. A's book, the only way to get your body into ketosis and get it to burn stored body fat -- WITHOUT feeling exhausted from marathon running or near-starvation -- is to get your carb intake low enough. If your carbs are low enough, you'll burn body fat and feel great (at least after induction is over and your body has made the metabolic switch).

But if you increase your carbs -- even while exercising -- you'll trigger that insulin response and get your body into that fat-storing mode and you're back at square one.