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When you feel hungry are you burning fat?

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Your body stores fat as a resource to help protect you against starvation if you can't take in enough food. However, your fat reserve isn't the first place your body goes for food; instead, it reaches out for sugar for energy. Just being hungry doesn't mean your body is burning fat. Blood Sugar Hunger is normally a reflection that your body has used up energy from recent food you ate and has moved on to retrieving energy from sugar in your blood. The body stores sugars as glycogen, which it releases when you feel hungry. The more sugars you intake, the more fuel your body has to use before it reaches out to the fat stores. Any carbohydrate you eat is stored as sugar by your body. If your body doesn't have enough sugar to supply the energy it needs, it begins to burn fat when you're hungry instead. Lowering your carb intake reduces the amount of stored sugar in your body, encouraging your body to burn fat when you're hungry. Hunger and Famine Response Missing meals and going hungry can shift your metabolism so it stores fat instead of burning it. This doesn't happen in a day of missing meals, but if you skip meals for several days and severely lower your caloric intake, your body uses a famine response to conserve energy. Instead of burning fat because you're hungry, your body begins to store as much fat as possible. To combat this, spread your meals out so that you eat five or six small meals throughout the day instead of three large meals. Add more protein, because your body burns more calories when digesting protein than it does when digesting carbohydrates or fat. Drink at least eight glasses of water a day as well; lack of proper hydration can lead to a mild famine response. Exercise Although it may seem like you should burn more fat if you exercise while you're hungry, a study published in February 2011 in "Strength and Conditioning Journal" shows that the body burns the same amount of fat regardless of whether you are hungry when you exercise. According to the study, exercising when you're hungry can cause you to lose muscle mass as the body uses muscle protein for energy. You're also likely to work out at a lower level of intensity because you're hungry. Exercise is key to burning fat; your body burns up sugar stored in your system and begins to burn fat as you continue to exercise. However, exercising when you're hungry won't help you burn fat faster.

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How much weight do I subtract for clothes and shoes?

Men can lop off nearly 2.5 lbs to account for their clothing while women can only subtract around 2.

time.com - How Much Do You Subtract For Clothing When You Weigh Yourself

As swim suit season gets underway, more of us are probably stepping on the scale and squinting at the number that flashes back at us. Then, we do some quick mental math and adjust for the fact that we’re wearing jeans, maybe a robe, and oh, yes, that heavy sweater. So, minus 5lbs?

It turns out that scientists have actually done a real study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, to figure out how many pounds we should be subtracting for what we wear. Led by a team at University of North Dakota (because it gets really cold there, and they’re probably pretty bundled up when they step on a scale), not only did they set up an experiment to weigh people, both clothed and nearly nude, at various times of the year, they also wanted to answer the critical question of whether weighing yourself in the winter gives you more leeway to do this kind of math than in the summer, when we tend to wear less. It turns out that, as with so many things, men and women are different when it comes to how much our clothes weigh. Men, it seems, prefer to swathe themselves in heavier garments while women tend to adorn themselves more lightly. Men can lop off nearly 2.5 lbs to account for their clothing while women can only subtract around 2. And this holds true, unfortunately, no matter what the weather outside. So no more making allowances for that thick wool sweater. Now you know exactly how much your clothes weigh.

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