Changing ratios while keep calories same

[swimgirl089]

ok, i hear about all the ratios you can do to acheive fat loss without changing the calorie intake ( so the body will never thinks its not getting enough) However, when you feel as though you lost the amount of weight you wanted, how does someone go back to the ratios ( let say 30/55/15) that they were before. Im assuming once your body has had the 40/40/20 or any of the others for a long time, you would gain weight once you stopped that ratio while still consuming the same calorie amount. So does someone gradually alter the ratios back to where they were before, or could someone just go back to the way it was and have minimal fat gain?

 

[Xantix]

So are you asking if you diet properly, and then go back to dieting improperly just looking at your caloric deficit or surpless will you see minimal fat gains?

Some calories burn slower than others mainly carbohydrates so if you were to completely throw your dieting plan out the window, and just rely on the numbers for your caloric deficit or surpless you'd definitely see undesired results.

Like if you were to go back to a 15/25/60 ratio after dieting healthy at a recommended one like what you said 40/40/20 or something alike and throw it all out of whack and don't bother on dieting anymore and just look at your caloric numbers then yea, I think you could expect to see fluctuated gains or loses.

I'm still kind of confused though

 

[swimgirl089]

right now i eat about a 30/55/15 ratio but i heard that you could lose weight by eating 40/40/20, i just wanted to know what would happen after weeks at 40/40/20 and then eating 30/55/15 b/c i know that most people would want to just eat healthy again instead of staying on the "diet" regimen all there life

 

[Jodi]

You adjust your calories but still stay in the ratio. To cut you drop cals below maintenance and to maintain you eat an appropriate amount to cals to do so all while staying in your ratio.

 

[swimgirl089]

thanks for the advice

 

[Akateros]

Some people like to use a lower carb/higher protein ratio for losing weight, and slightly higher carbs for maintenance, which gives more energy for working out.

If you do that, and make the switch suddenly, you're likely to gain a pound or four of water weight as your body's balance shifts. (Same thing can happen if you suddenly start eating something, such as dairy, which you'd cut out before.) But that's just temporary, and should even out and go away after a bit, unless you are in fact sensitive to/mildly allergic to whatever it is.

If you're still in calorie balance, you shouldn't gain any fat weight. However, if you were losing weight at the same number of calories but, say, lower carbs, if your body likes that better, your rate of loss may slow or stop if you change the ratios.