Unless you are willing to accept the dangers and risks of ketosis, your fat loss plan should include a balanced diet. Why? Because a balanced diet will give you more energy per calories consumed.

Unfortunately, even balanced nutrition can STILL lead to excess weight gain. So it is very important for you to grasp how different types of food interact and get shuffled away in your body.

So without further delay, here is how nutrients get stored as fat in your body:

1. Carbohydrates. With the exception of fiber, ALL carbohydrates are broken down to the most basic units of sugar. Once broken down, they get reassembled into glycogen. If you eat too much and have an excess of your glycogen needs, you will store fat.

2. Dietary fatty acids. When you eat fat it gets stored as body fat very easily. How so? It gets broken down into fatty acids and glycerol. Having said that, do NOT restrict your fat intake as it is critical for maximizing fat loss hormone production.

3. Sources of protein. Just like carbohydrates, all protein must be broken down into amino acids for proper assimilation to occur. Once broken down, the amino acids and be reformed into tissues and muscle mass. But if you want the protein to go to muscle mass, you have to exercise.

4. Alcohol. The thorn in your fat loss spine, alcohol is usually absorbed without any break down and is converted to excess body fat with ease. It will also slow down the rate at which your body burns fat. Even worse, it leads to the worst kind of fat storage: visceral fat.

Now no matter what you eat, food can only be stored as three things: glycogen, lean tissue protein and fat. Your body has a limited ability to store macro nutrients as glycogen and lean tissue protein. Thus, any excess gets readily stored as extra body fat.

Also, make sure you do not go overboard with protein just because it has a high thermic effect. Despite this, excess protein does get stored as body fat when too much is consumed. So no matter how you eat, a negative intake is necessary for rapid fat loss.