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Pittsburg, Kansas | Listen to what Buster 50 says above. He speaks the truth and experience.
Whether you have energy even after skipping a meal or two will depend on if you are "fat adapted". Fat adaptation happens when the body becomes able to switch readily from glucose burning to fat burning. This only happens with insulin levels in the blood being low. Carbs raise insulin.
Switching from burning glucose to fat is a natural state of being. We are born that way. As we age and eat either too many carbs or too often or both, a person can become insulin resistant. That is the first stage years before a person gets diagnosed as diabetic.
Once a person is insulin resistant the body is not as metabolically flexible. It has a hard time switching back from glucose burning to fat burning. It can take several weeks of either low carb eating or fasting to get some of the insulin sensitivity back. Once a person has corrected this problem and they become better fat burning adapted, they will cease to have energy issues when missing a meal once in a while. The fat stores on their body readily become their go to energy source when not eating. That is the natural and normal state of a human. We have short circuited that natural ability of utilizing our fat storage energy by over consumption of carbohydrates and or eating them too often, over time leading to the insulin resistance I was talking about.
Edited by John Burns 2/3/2024 12:06
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