The truth about macro patterns

There are all kinds of ideas and theories about how you should eat to lose weight. Diets ranging from Weight Watchers, the Whole Food Diet, the Paleo Diet, and everything in between have their own guidelines for how you should eat to lose those unwanted pounds.

One of the latest ideas on the market today is a concept called ‘macro-patterning’.

The macropattern is simply the idea of ​​combining macronutrients in each of your meals. This theory has only three food possibilities to help you lose weight.

The first pair of macronutrients this theory suggests eating are protein and carbohydrates. Protein is the building block for nearly every function in your body, and you can never have enough of it. It helps you build muscle and speeds up your metabolism. Carbohydrates, on the other hand, can make or break your diet. If you eat too many, you could start storing them as fat. If you eat too few of them, you could send your body into starvation mode where you store everything as fat. This combination is recommended because your body can break down this pair properly.

The next suggested pair of macronutrients is the combination of protein and fat. Again, your body can break down each one properly, but when it comes to the last pair of macronutrients possible in this theory, it is believed that you will start to store fat.

It is believed that this macronutrient pattern of combining fats and carbohydrates will store one of them as fat, since your body cannot break them down simultaneously.

That is false, your body can use each fuel source for energy, one is more efficient than the other.

Carbohydrates are the only food group that begin to break down as soon as they reach the mouth. Fats, on the other hand, take twice as long to break down.

Where this idea of ​​combining carbohydrates and fats as a means of gaining weight comes into play depends on the type of fats and carbohydrates you consume.

You will not gain weight eating fruits and nuts as a snack, however, if you eat pasta and trans fats, you will certainly gain weight.

In short, the macronutrient pattern is just one viable theory when it comes to combining processed or non-whole foods. It is incredibly difficult to eat meat, nuts, fruits, and vegetables to obesity, as those were foods our bodies were meant to eat.

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