Cutting all fat? Why a near-zero-fat diet backfires
Cutting every drop of ghee and oil sounds healthy, but it leaves you hungry and robs your vitamins. Keep a little fat, count its calories, and mind the deficit, not the fat.
Meet Riya. She cut all ghee and oil to lose weight fast. By 4 pm she was starving. So she ate three extra rotis. This is not the myth that eating fat turns straight into body fat. That is a different story. This is the mistake of cutting ALL fat. It backfires through hunger and nutrient gaps.
Why your body needs some fat
Your body needs fat to use four vitamins. They are A, D, E, and K. These are called fat-soluble vitamins. They dissolve in fat, not in water. Your gut absorbs them along with dietary fat. So a fat-free salad may give you less nutrition than you think. Some fat helps the vitamins get into your body.
Near-zero-fat day vs a moderate-fat day
A fat-free diet is the fastest way to lose weight.
mostly falsemostly false - low-fat diets do not beat balanced diets for long-term weight loss. What moves the scale is the calorie deficit, not the fat percentage. So cutting all fat is not a shortcut.
Keep the fat, count the calories
The bottom line
Keep a little fat on your plate. Count its calories in Burnie. Mind the deficit, not the fat percentage. That is the Burnie method.