Darksoul9000’s BodyBlog

Someone asks: "What is Fat calories, and what does it do (to the body)?"

Before I answer this let me tell everyone the definition of what is a calorie and fat first.

A calorie is a unit of energy, mostly heat that is found in food. A small calorie is the amount of heat (energy) required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 °C.

Fat is any various soft, solid or semisolid organic compound constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acid and their associated organic groups (sorry if you guys are not understand this clearly *L*). Fat is a lipid. It can be either liquid (unsaturated fat) or solid (saturated fat) in room temperature.  Fat is important for certain living organism, including us human beings as it is a energy storage and when the energy is ready for use fat is converted into glucose by the liver.

Anyway back to the question that I’m trying to answer.

How many calories are in a food = how much energy the food will give you. However, the TYPE of the calories you eat is much more important than the actual amount. One gram of fat has seven calories in it, more than any other type. Therefore, they give you the most energy.
Don’t think that I’m saying that it’s okay to eat only fat though. Fat calories stores energy for later which is why it sticks to your body. Carbs is energy for right now. While doing cardio exercises when one burns the calories from carbs, the body then burns the calorie energy from fat and therefore fat is burned off. That is how one lose weight.

I’m also not saying to not eat carbs at all so your body will go right to burning fat off. This kind of behavior traumatizes the body, leading to many different health problems. Again I say that Fat stores energy for later. The energy is there just incase of an emergency. Think of fat as something similar to a back up generator for a building just incase the the power goes out because of a problem with the power lines or the power company.

Another ask: "How many calories should I eat?"

I’ll be honest about this (not that I was dishonest with everyone in the first place), I don’t pay too much attention to how much fat calories that I consume. But I do try to consume in allot though for health and exercise purpose. But I have heard that it’s recommended that especially when one is bulking, one should eat 75 grams of fat which equals to about 675 calories. I guess it depends on one goals as far as exercise and nutrition.