How does raw till 4 work?

Ok, very vague question but I can't seem to wrap my head around WHY Raw till 4 works for weight loss. It seems the more I eat (I'm a 16 year old girl- eating about 2500- 3000 calories a day, when I used to eat as little as 400 calories then binge in the past) the more weight I lose! I have only started the lifestyle last week but the benefits have already started to show! So what's the science behind all this? Why and how does it work?

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  • If you are seeing such remarkable results in this short of a time it is most likely from lost water-weight due to reduction of salt in your diet. Excess salt binds water in the body. The difference between SAD-salt-amounts and HCLF is about 10 lbs.

    Other than that:
    When put to use, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. (carbs vs. proteins vs. fats)
    BUT when not used the different macros act differently.

    Let's say you require 2500 calories.
    The body always burns the carbs first. Then the proteins and the fats actually require another metabolism-mode called "ketosis", which you only switch to after a several hours after you run out of carbs. This usually only happens at night or when you are severly undercarbed.

    Lipogenesis, the creation of fat out of carbs is really inefficient. Only about 10% of the carb-calories are converted into storable fat. The rest of the energy is lost as body heat.

    Now imagine you eat 3000 calories instead of the required 2500.

    If it is SAD with about 30 or more percent of fat, you have 500/9 = 56 grams of excess fat to store.
    If it is HCLF, the small amounts of fat consumed and the very small amount generated by lipogenesis is almost completely used up in nightly ketosis. 3000/20/9 +(500-3000/20)/10/9 = 20.5 grams

    Excess carbs barely matter as long as you keep the total amount of fat consumed lower than the nightly ketosis-requirement.

    On HCLF you will not lose weight on days where youre calory in > calory out but you can easily compensate for that on another day.
    Whereas on SAD calory-ratios it is much harder to compensate when you had to much calories because all of them where stored.

    • Wow, well explained! Thank you for that :)
    • Wow interesting! You explain it very well. I don't eat much fat unless I'm binging on cashews, but I am worried I'm getting too much protein. Can you describe how protein is stored and burned? Thanks!

      • Protein is even less critical for weight gain than are carbohydrates.

        There, however, is another reason of why you could be getting too much.

        Proteins primary use is to build tissue from. Your body basically consists of protein. But since it is very preservative with it, it really doesn't need that much.

        The protein that is not used for cell-construction gets converted into glucose. From then on they are treated just like carbohydrates when it comes to burning and storage.

        However, this process takes some energy to happen but also leaves waste products since the proteins are not as "clean" when it comes to the molecules they consist of.

        The body usually is well versed in dealing with these waste-products as it is adapted to getting a little more protein than it needs. These are mainly puric acid and are filtered out by the kidneys.

        Your body needs about half a gram of protein per kilogram of body-mass. It can easily deal with twice that amount. By "normal eating" as in 80-10-10 you will be somewhere in-between of the required and twice the required amount. Your body can easily deal with that.

        I actually doubt that you get too much protein. I don't know what you are eating but when you are vegan and you do not supplement protein with protein-powders and stuff like this you should be in that 0.5-1 g/kilo range.

        Getting fat from protein is even less likely as it has to be converted twice. 

        So I personally wouldn't be worried about it.

        Bodybuilders who believe in the myth that the more protein they consume the faster their muscles grow (there is some truth in that but the limit is much lower than most bodybuilders think at about 1.8 g/kg for absolutely extreme workouts, no additional gain was ever measured beyond that) up their protein intake sometimes to like 4 grams/kilo and then it starts becoming a burden for the kidneys as they have to filter out way more of the waste-products like puric-acid than they are designed for.

        This then can lead to these waste-products accumulating in the bloodstream and cause disease like gout and kidney-failure.

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          • Actually I'm neither of those.

            I have a nutritionfacts.org subscription, watched a lot of vshvideo-videos, read a lot of stuff and acutally was interested in the topic enough for everything to stick withing my brain.

            I had intended to make a nutritionist-education additionally to my normal occupation but eventually decided against it. I can obtain the knowledge without the degree. Should I lose my job I could still get it probably quite easily.

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