Insulin has nothing to do with making you fat.
Read this if you are really interested:
https://www.muscleforlife.com/how-insulin-works/
There are many gurus out there that want to get money by feeding lies to people in order to sell their products, but the truth is, eating less calories than burning means you will burn fat, and this is a scientific proven fact that is undisputable.
People get too caught by what some people are saying (in order to make money) and don't have a great understanding on how things work, so they get fooled very easily by those people who put up convincing arguments but very flawed ones.
Losing fat is 100% about EATING LESS ENERGY THAN YOU BURN THROUGHOUT THE DAY, HENCE THE LEFT ENERGY YOU NEED AND DON'T GET FROM FOOD HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE : YOUR BODY RESERVES
- Eat lower carbs = you lose fat ... guess what, cutting all those carbs made you also cut a lot of calories.. and in most cases people eat alot of very calorie dense carbs like sweets, cutting that by alot means you cut a ton of calories
- Guess what, cutting fat also makes you lose fat as proven in scientific studies, as does cutting protein as long as your eating less calories than you burn throughout the day
- People overestimate the amount of food they eat or cut and are bad at judging calories... so alot of studies are not accurate.. but guess what we have metabolic chambers where they get groups of people together and they live in a room and the scientists feed them food and measure using advanced equipement how much energy they consume and burn throughout the day, there is not a SINGLE STUDY where this was controlled where people got fat eating less calories that they burned.
- Its still not recommended to cut protein when losing weight, because protein is the most satiating macronutrient of all, meaning if you cut protein you will be more hungry and eat more calories overall, and if you increase protein you will be more filled and eat less calories because you won't be as hungry, ultimately its still the calories that make you lose weight, but increasing protein helps eating less
- Some people think that some people seem to eat a ton of food while others don't.. but there are many people that don't really eat a big quantity of food and yet they eat snickers bars and very high calorie foods, while others eat alot of vegetables, meat etc... so the 2nd person might eat like 5-6 times the amount of food, but they actually eat a similar amount of calories... there are also huge differences in activity level, michael phelps ate 8000-9000 calories when training for olympics because he was so super active and swimming 10 hours per day... a normal person would get fat on 5000 calories, so you can't possibly judge how much calories someone eats and burns unless you have complete overview of them daily 24/7 and count their food and somewhat get a guesstimate of their daily calorie expendature
There are some things that somewhat affect some things, like:
Protein needs more calories to be processed and broken down by the body compared to carbs and fat, so eating more protein naturally makes you eat a bit less even if its the same calories, if you ate 600 calories of protein your body would need like 200 calories just to break that down... while it may need only 50-100 calories to break down 600 calories of fat or carbs.
Also during the day there is a thing called NEAT, which is your subconsious movements of the body, some people have very low NEAT levels, while others have a high NEAT level, where they constantly do alot of subconsious things like fidgeting etc.. and hence burn more calories
But at the end of the day, it only matters that you eat less than you burn
Its a fact that losing weight is about consuming less energy than your body expends during the day, this has been completely proven in the last few years, so its quite funny how so many people on forums still claim its not the case.
