Good points J
I believe that energy as a whole (dietary fat, carbs, stored fat and carbs) is like a big pool...
You have carbs/glycogen in one half and fat / stored body fat in the other half with a net seperating them....
If you were to burn fat in one part of the day the energy balance would remain the same as carbs will be burned laiter to keep an energy balance....
Does successfull body re-composition occur when one successfully partition's calories, so that you can burn fat while doing cardio and then prevent carbs being stored as bodyfat...
Dietary suggestions - Keeping carb's around training to be used as fuel and not stored as body fat?