1) I eat a ketogenic (very low carb: less than 20 grams of carb per day) version of the Perfect Health Diet, which does not include grains. It takes time for the body to get used to burning fat as its regular state -- but one of the big reasons diabetes and other modern diseases are on the rise in the world is the prevalence of grain and carbs in our diet -- when we eat carbs, it turns our body into fat storing mode, so we pack away whatever we eat, leaving loads of fat over time that we can't access because when we get hungry two hours later (while our body is still in fat storing mode), we eat more carbs. All this is controlled by insulin, released in response to the carbs in the blood stream. Basically, evolutionarily, we ate the most carbs when we couldn't access meat -- carbs were a fall back food to prevent starving. Modern medicine has it backwards -- starvation mode is carb/sugar burning mode, not fat burning mode.
2) I do not bonk because my body simply accesses fat. Even someone extremely low in body fat (say 5-7%) has enough fat to run for days if need be. The minimal glucose required by the body is easily made by my liver from protein. I've often done bikepacking trips with 5-7 hours of riding without eating for 48-72 hours, though I had food with me and could eat at any time. I just wasn't hungry. With abandon, Patrick On Monday, June 30, 2014 9:54:16 PM UTC-6, lungimsam wrote: > > 1. How do you become a fat burner? >> > 2. Does bonking while biking become a non-issue since carbs aren't in the > picture anymore? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
