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Originally Posted by MamaSara6
The problem as I see it is that everyone talks about watching calories and staying under a certain number, but that number is very individual. Who's to say what my magic number is? And wouldn't it change depending on the macronutrient ratio I was consuming? Because my body was using them differently?
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EXACTLY!! Everything that passes through your lips and into your stomach does NOT turn into energy that you then measure by the caloric content. The Drs. Eades in PP & PPLP point out that you
require protein every day to replace that which you “loose” everyday. The skin, lining of the digestive tract, the hair and the nails all use up protein, not to mention the protein that gets used up in the various other processes required for the body to function to stay alive. This protein is
NOT used for energy, so to count it in the “energy use” equation would result in an erroneous result. Remember that the Drs. Eades start out with having you determine your
minimum protein requirement per day. Then you add fat, which can be burned
OR be incorporated into the new replacement cell walls, so even it cannot be counted fully in the “energy use” equation. Carbohydrates, which should be limited, are the ONLY macronutrient that is used ONLY for energy.
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Originally Posted by MamaSara6
So, what he says makes perfect sense, as does most of what he says. I just don't think you can quantify it, except on a personal level.
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Yes, it must be determined by your “individual” mix of macronutrients. So that is why PP/PPLP so appeals to me. They give you the basic principles of a healthy diet and then give you the “freedom” to “customize” it to your own bodies needs.
I need to add, that excess protein becomes available for conversion into glucose which then gets used for energy
OR stored as fat, the thing most are trying to burn off. So PP/PPLP is NOT a license to eat ALL the protein you want, as many people have found by getting stalled by too much protein in their diet. Likewise, too much fat will limit the utilization of your bodies fat stores. But I also have a vague memory of reading that dietary fat absorption has some regulation to it such that if you have sufficient available in the blood the absorption is reduced and the excess passes on. Or it could be simply that large amounts of fat in the diet overwhelm the guts ability to absorb it all thus the excess passes on. So then excess dietary fat would not cause you to gain (with low carbohydrates keeping the insulin level low) but would also would not allow you to loose any of your fat stores.
PP/PPLP then is a “balancing” act between the amounts of protein and fat, together with the carbohydrates you eat in your “veggies”, that you have to experiment with to find the right mix. AND that mix will change as you loose (or gain) weight as well as get older.