➡️HEAT/POWER (dry, clean logs) aka Protein
Once your fire starts to build, you need to immediately and frequently add new dry logs to keep it burning and burning hot.
This is just like protein.
Only protein burns hot, not carbs and fats. The more frequently you add protein to your fire the longer and hotter it will burn.
It is long lasting, efficient and your most important macro nutrient.
You see, when you eat carbs and fats your body has to work harder to burn them through activity and exercise. But when you eat protein, your body heats up to burn them without activity. It sustains life without any additional fuel source!
Without enough protein your body will have spikes and crashes of energy and becomes a very inefficient fire.
➡️FUEL (sticks, paper, lighter fluid) aka Carbohydrates
In order to start a fire you cannot take a lighter (or blowtorch) to a log and expect it to ignite on fire. Instead you need small sticks, paper and kindling to build up heat that will then encompass the log and initiate ‘the burn’.
This is just like carbohydrates.
Carbs give you energy, they make you happy but, they also burn out quickly. So eat them before activity to ensure you have the energy but also burn off the excess.
If you eat your carbohydrates when you are inactive and sedentary, they will NOT burn.
But if you eat them before activity they will give you energy, stoke the fire and set your body up to burn more wood (fat)
➡️WET LOG (more smoke, burns longer) aka Fat
That leaves us with fats which I relate to a wet log. That log that is still smoldering the next morning when you wake up hours and hours later.
This is just like fats.
Fats burn slow, they are a less efficient energy source than carbs and protein, but they are very long lasting.
When it comes to nutrition and fat burning this is extremely important to delay hunger, maintain a slow release of energy and to avoid an energy crash.
Unlike carbs that burn hot quickly then fizzle out, your fat sources will remain in your system for hours to keep the fire burning and energy maintained.
So that means fats are perfect in between meals as snacks, after activity during sedentary times of the day and late night to avoid hunger/sugar cravings.
