Woah. "The fat you eat is the fat you wear."

Lol I wouldn't be surprised if I'm way off here, but...

Does a persons body fat % mirror the percentage of fat on their body?

Like, say I ate about 6% of my calories from fat, would my body fat be maintained at about 6%? Or say I ate 30% of my calories from fat, wld my body be 30% fat?

Or is that totally not relatd?

Haha I dunno, I just thought of that and now I'm rather curious. XD

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Permalink Reply by Mike Rawsome Grant on June 1, 2012 at 2:11am

Are skinny people that eat McCancer all day fat? Nope. lol

So I would hazard a guess and say no. Some people can get away with it, but that doesn't mean they should continue to eat that way. =)

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Permalink Reply by Kati Sharp on June 1, 2012 at 2:16am

Oh. Hahahahaha hah. Your right. I feel dumb xD lol ;o

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Permalink Reply by Mike Rawsome Grant on June 1, 2012 at 2:18am

lol. no worries your not. =)

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Permalink Reply by Heather Bhagat on June 1, 2012 at 2:27am

But most of them have a high body fat percentage and low muscle mass, even if they do look skinny

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Permalink Reply by dangermouse on June 1, 2012 at 2:39am

My boyfriend's lean and muscular and eats tonnes of fat.

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Permalink Reply by Esra on June 1, 2012 at 4:29am

Nope! It depends on a person's metabolism (which in itself depends on many things, like activity level, age, sleep, etc), amongst other things.

I've been the same size for the last 8 years. 5'4" and around 110 pounds. I couldn't even tell you my fat consumption before veganism (2.5 years ago) and HCRV (1 year ago), but I ate ALL I wanted, and probably ate around 3000 calories a day - heavy on the fat AND carbs lol. Even when I was just vegan, it was not for my health, so if it was vegan, I ate it (that period of time was probably even higher in fat, I remember eating like 3 large avocados a day, every single day, plus olive oil/coconut oil on everything)! But I didn't gain any body fat because I walked all day long, was very active, and was young :).

Now I'm HCRV, and have been 9/5/5 ever since I started, and I still look exactly the same! I'm hoping to look like this for a long time, so HCRV is definitely the way to go. If I had continued on my earlier path though, I definitely would not look like this in a couple of years :). Of course this is only one of the many positives of HCRV.