Did that silly magazine think you would burn fat AS YOU ARE RIDING!?!?

Fat is long-term storage, you can't get your body to suddenly run on fat by skipping b'fast one day! (I wanna have a talk with those writers....)

And if you freak out your system and drain the goodies from your short-term storage and circulating fuel, well your bod will just shut down and bonk, won't it? Then your system goes into crisis mode, and doesn't it just lower your metabolism and do what it can to protect (not use) your stored energy?

Maybe women have more efficient systems (we do seem to handle endurance and low food conditions better than men) but it still seems like a bass-ackwards way to try to mobilize stored fat, even for may-fly metabolism men.

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