Calories and PSMF Diet

We have all heard that calories in equals calories in, a fundamental law of thermodynamics. Well all things being equal this would be correct, the only problem is all food macros are not equal.

Different organs deal with excesses in macros in different ways. For instance, if you are eating a lot of carbs, the liver stores carbs as glycogen first, then when the glycogen stores get full, the liver converts the carbs to fat stored in the liver. When this gets maxed out the liver puts the extra fat into the blood stream with the result being high triglycerides.

Fat cells seek to maintain an equilibrium of in and out fat everyday, when more fat is coming in too often, you get fat. Equilibrium is in-effect broken.

PSMF works because the two easiest macros to store as fat, Fat Macro and Carb Macro, are greatly reduced to around 20g each. When you do this protein becomes the dominant macro which the body finds hard to convert to fat. When you keep your calories around 800 calories, then body is using every bit of energy (calories coming in) to burn and nothing is going into the reserve tank (fat).

Without carbs you arn’t getting the sugar highs and lows throughout the day that cause hunger pangs/binging.

So yes calories are important, but so to is limiting your fat and carbs for PSMF. This is not a long term diet, but you will quickly see the weight come off if you keep your calories, fat and carbs low.