with a high fat diet containing protein you wouldn't lose muscle mass in the long run, at least not if you trained, so in a caloric balance you would not gain fat. I have explained this before.
I understood how you could gain fat while in a caloric balance from the very beginning. in post 22 I said :
This was my second post in this discussion. At this point, you hadn't really explained anything.
You're saying that if you eat fat you won't use it because you don't use fat when you do weight training in the gym, but you use fat when you're walking around, resting, sleeping, etc. (also, weight training doesn't necessarily burn 0 fat, its just that energy from carbs is a lot higher).
I agree that with a diet that induces muscle loss (or loss of other tissue that contains energy), such as an all fat diet, you could gain fat at a caloric balance. However, if you eat a diet that contains protein and you do some resistance exercise, you won't lose muscle in the long run. And then, at a calorie balance, you won't gain fat since there is no energy left over to store as fat. To prove your hypothesis (the one I disagree with) you need to show that if you do resistance exercise on a high fat diet (that still contains some protein), in caloric balance, you will lose muscle mass in the long run. You need to find a study or conduct one yourself.
I understood how you could gain fat while in a caloric balance from the very beginning. in post 22 I said :
This was my second post in this discussion. At this point, you hadn't really explained anything.
You're saying that if you eat fat you won't use it because you don't use fat when you do weight training in the gym, but you use fat when you're walking around, resting, sleeping, etc. (also, weight training doesn't necessarily burn 0 fat, its just that energy from carbs is a lot higher).
I agree that with a diet that induces muscle loss (or loss of other tissue that contains energy), such as an all fat diet, you could gain fat at a caloric balance. However, if you eat a diet that contains protein and you do some resistance exercise, you won't lose muscle in the long run. And then, at a calorie balance, you won't gain fat since there is no energy left over to store as fat. To prove your hypothesis (the one I disagree with) you need to show that if you do resistance exercise on a high fat diet (that still contains some protein), in caloric balance, you will lose muscle mass in the long run. You need to find a study or conduct one yourself.