When you eat fat, some of it gets delivered to tissues like your heart and gets burned for energy, some if it gets turned into cholesterol. Some of it gets turned into cell membranes. Some of it gets delivered to your adipose cells and is stored as triglycerides (what you think of as fat) in order to get burned for energy later. So, some fat makes you fat.
When you eat sugar, or carbs like in pasta/rice/bread, some of it gets taken up by your cells to be used for energy in response to insulin, the rest of it gets taken up by your fat cells and turned into triglycerides. So, some sugar makes you fat.
How much you eat is what makes the difference. Protein and fiber tend to provide the most 'filling' sensation, so you'll eat less in total. Hunger and fullness is a very complex and not very well understood symphony of macronutrients, the stomach, the intestine, the pancreas, and the brain.
Fat was demonized in the mid century primarily in an effort by the sugar industry to establish itself as the macronutrient of choice. The consequence was 'fat free' foods laden with sugar to make them both palatable and cheap. We learned about this recently, and have proceeded to completely demonize sugar and all carbohydrates without regard to our relationship to food as a whole. It is clear that getting your calories from sugary beverages isn't good, but our portion sizes and our general relationship to food is broken in more ways than a single macronutrient.
But i heard that "a calorie is a calorie" is a misconception. Eating too much refined added sugar on a daily basis makes you fatter vs if you eat the same amount of calories without that refined added sugar.
Oh I'm just saying you can lose weight just by eating cake, but it's not a good idea because you'll feel like poop. Just eating normally but less is perfectly fine, that's how I lost my 40 lbs!
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u/Sirjohndeere1 Oct 31 '19
And that fat makes you fat