Quote Originally Posted by Failure View Post
OK, so one thing that I have never understood. How does your body know just what your macros for the day are? It isn't like at 12:00am it tallies up everything to see what is there. This is why I have always been under the impression that eating frequent meals during the day is beneficial. Does your body not store what you don't use as fat by the time digestion is over? Or if eating 3 meals per day do you burn what was stored as fat from the excess calories during the period between meals?

Forgive me for dumbing down the thread but I figured here would be the best place instead of starting a new thread.
You're right. Your body isn't on a 24 hour schedule and doesn't add shit up at the end of the day. We are so programmed to think in terms of 24 hours, because it's convenient for us to track. It has it's place, but we have to realize our body doesn't 'know' this.

People always think your body has to be in either a constant state of deficit, surplus, or maintaining. The truth is it is in all 3, at different times throughout the day. Your body is constantly breaking down and building up. take IF dieting for instance. When you are in the fasting period, you're in a deficit, burning bodyfat (assuming you're doing everything right). When you're in the feeding phase, you're in a surplus, restoring glycogen, building tissue (again, assuming the right stimuli are present). Simple really.