Carbohydrates and endomorphic bodies

Endomorphic bodies are characterized by their peculiar ability to store fat as a defense mechanism in times of scarcity. This ability is a legacy inherited from periods where access to food was not guaranteed, which is why having reserves was very useful, allowing the body to resort to them when needed.

In this dynamic plays a fundamental role the consumption of carbohydrates, being these the natural source par excellence for the obtaining of energy by our body. In today's times, where meals are part of a systematic process of our daily life, the ability to store fat in the body is no longer essential and can be a hindrance to any attempt to lose weight that we intend to perform.

Throughout this guide, we will discuss how carbohydrates influence the diet of an endomorph and how to manage carbohydrate intake.

Sensitivity to carbohydrates: It has been shown that endomorph bodies have a greater sensitivity to carbohydrates. The process of conversion into sugar is magnified when we talk about an endomorph, accelerating its transformation into sugar and penetrating our bloodstream to increase our fat reserves.

This sensitivity to carbohydrates allows our body to make the most of every meal we eat, this is not something positive, we are talking about our body has learned to extract the energy it needs from our food and retain part of it to continue increasing our fat reserves. It is a process that is repeated with every meal we eat, to the point that even when we decide to eat little food, our body slows down our metabolism even more and maximizes the accumulation of fat in case the shortage is maintained over time. This is why it is never recommended for an endomorph body to stop eating or to prolong fasting.

Carbohydrates as a source of energy: Normally we have the preconceived idea that carbohydrates are our source of energy, and therefore decreasing the intake of these would result in not having enough energy to perform our daily work. The truth is that if this were true, there would not be so many people who have been on different low-carbohydrate diets for years, nor would we have so many testimonies of developers and people in the world of technology, who work in high-pressure environments, and feed only on meat. The point we are getting at is that carbohydrates are not the only source of energy and for many it is not even the best.

Consume less carbohydrates and more proteins: Proteins are excellent to accelerate our metabolism, besides being a macronutrient of extreme necessity in the construction of muscle mass. This is exactly what we want, that our metabolism works optimally to not store fat unnecessarily and to build our muscular system to be displacing fats.

Another important factor is that as we said before, carbohydrates are not the only source from which we can obtain energy, but fats are excellent to fulfill this function. Thus, by inducing ketosis we can force our body to use those fats that it has been storing for a long time, and that until now were useless for us, as a natural source from which to obtain constant energy to carry out our daily activities.

We must limit the intake of carbohydrates to values lower than 30 grams per day, the fundamental objective is that our body does not increase its fat reserves, and go decreasing them by consuming them for energy. If we manage to maintain this system we will begin to lose weight easily, and taking into account that we have increased the consumption of proteins, we can combine all this with intense sessions of strength exercises to increase our muscle mass while burning more calories.