Getting ready to SMASH through this plateau!

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I STRONGLY disagree excess fat calories instantly get stored as fat because the polar opposite happens from what I've seen. Calorie restriction usually leads to fat gain and muscle loss even on tons of helpers. Many times I have done over 10000 cals a day for weeks and noticed my physique would get harder.

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I STRONGLY disagree excess fat calories instantly get stored as fat because the polar opposite happens from what I've seen. Calorie restriction usually leads to fat gain and muscle loss even on tons of helpers. Many times I have done over 10000 cals a day for weeks and noticed my physique would get harder.

not even excess fat cals, but pretty much all fat calories get stored as fat .

biologically , even if you were starving to death and about to die, and had not eaten food in weeks. IF you stumbled across a large meal that was all fat and you ate it, your body would still store a majority of it as body fat first before utilizing it as fuel.
thats just how the body metabolizes fat . now of course you can get lean and burn body fat eating a high fat diet (lots of other factors to consider here), but the storage mechanism is still going to apply. your body stores fat then uses it for energy, where as carbs and proteins are more efficiently broken down and used as an actual energy source without being stored first .

it may sound overly simple . but dietary fat becomes fat very easily in the body because dietary fat IS fat
(and this is coming from a guy that used to be a keto advocate like 10 years ago

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Calorie restriction usually leads to fat gain

there is still the law of thermodynamics that would apply here, especially being 'calorie' is a measurement of energy.

[fiddlesticks]

there is still the law of thermodynamics that would apply here, especially being 'calorie' is a measurement of energy.

while this is true someone's metabolism/oxygen consumption can vary so much day to day based on food consumption its completely insane. Compare someone who has been eating 1000 cals for months to someone who is on 15k cals, DNP and doing heavy compound movements all day lol.