Questions: Right Calories, Wrong Balance

[Addiecakes]

What happens to your body in terms of daily caloric burn, energy level, and weight gain if you consume the appropriate amount of calories but a disproportionate amount of fats? (i.e. Take someone who eats a 6-egg omelette at breakfast and then eats regularly balanced meals for the rest of the day. How is their body affected by the disproportionate amount of fat?)

Along the same line, what about excess carbs? Or excess protein? (This is all assuming the person is eating the appropriate amount of calories for their body-size) What are the negative effects of an unbalanced diet? Besides "you get fat/gain weight".

I was reading the some of the nutrition stickies and started getting a sense of what each element does, but it's still a bit over my head. I hope this isn't a noob question ... but there's obviously a reason I've been fat all my life, lol ... part of it must be not getting it

 

[Steve]

What happens to your body in terms of daily caloric burn, energy level, and weight gain if you consume the appropriate amount of calories but a disproportionate amount of fats?

First define a "disproportionate amount of fats."

And after you do that, even then it will be context dependent.

In terms of weight though, your weight will not go up since you're consuming the "appropriate" amount. Energy is energy.

(i.e. Take someone who eats a 6-egg omelette at breakfast and then eats regularly balanced meals for the rest of the day. How is their body affected by the disproportionate amount of fat?)

Why do you consider this a disproportionate amount of daily fat intake?

Along the same line, what about excess carbs? Or excess protein? (This is all assuming the person is eating the appropriate amount of calories for their body-size) What are the negative effects of an unbalanced diet? Besides "you get fat/gain weight".

It's too open of a question, if you ask me. The possibilities are endless. For instance, if you're goal is to lose weight you need to establish a caloric deficit. But if you're not eating enough protein and aren't obese, there's a good chance you'll lose more muscle than necessary. That's just one example.

If you're sedentary and eat too many saturated fats, it could have negative impacts on various health metrics.

To much highly processed, surgary foods can screw with insulin levels triggering intense hunger, lack of energy, etc.

etc, etc, etc

I was reading the some of the nutrition stickies and started getting a sense of what each element does, but it's still a bit over my head. I hope this isn't a noob question ... but there's obviously a reason I've been fat all my life, lol ... part of it must be not getting it

More often than not being fat for a long time has to do with a genetic proclivity towards slower metabolism (which is very much overstated in most cases) and an imbalance between energy coming in the door vs energy going out the door (which really has to do with lifestyle habits).

 

[Addiecakes]

Okay, so I'll use myself as the example here.

From what I know, I should be getting about 30% of my daily calories from fat, 30% from protein, and 40% from carbohydrates. And, usually, I'm very close to hitting that guideline for balance. Today, however, my ratio looks more like 50% fat, 20% protein, and 30% carbs. This is what I mean by disproportionate amount of fat. However, I have only consumed 1,221 calories today, which means even with a substantial dinner I will be coming in at a calorie deficit for the day.

Does this imbalance have a negative effect on my weight loss or my energy due to how my body will process these amounts?

Am I even asking the right question? lol