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Fat stored on your body and fat contained in the food you eat are different. Orlistat has no effect on your stored fat other than when you are in calorie deficit. Stored fat is as a result of having excess calories over and above those you expend in normal everyday life and exercise. These calories do not just come from fats however. If it were then it would be easy to lose weight by a low fat diet alone and we could eat all the simple carbs we wanted and still lose weight. In actual fact carbs are more easily converted to available energy than either fats or proteins, this is why in order to feel full we need good fats in our diets. The body uses the most easily available energy first, that contained in the food most recently eaten and will only resort to using the stored energy (in fat cells) when it has depleated the energy from the food recently eaten. Your body sends hunger signals to your brain when the energy in the stomach is depleated in an attempt to get another easily convertible enery supply rather than having to go through the complex process of using the stored energy in fat cells.
So simply put, all Orlistat is doing is making it a little easier for us to create a calorie deficit by eliminating a proportion of the fat we eat so the body can't use it as a readily available source of energy and to force it to use the calories we have stored in our fat cells sooner. Eliminating fat (rather than carbs or protein) makes sense to me as fat is much more calorie dense than either carbs or protein (more than twice as much for the same weight).
I hope this explanation makes some sense. This brings me back to the statement in my previous post; that I think Orlistat will work best with a diet that contains a moderate amount of fat, just not too much to cause treatment effects!
Kitty
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