Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

One of my little sayings is that our bodies are simply trainable chemical factories. When we train in any manner, we change what our body chemistry does, hopefully in a direction which allows said training to produce better results over time. That's really all that's going on. Thus we can train our bodies to burn more fat by going keto, but at the cost of reducing our ability to burn carbs. We have to train to burn carbs just like we have to train to burn fat. These sorts of chemical process changes require consistent stimulation over time. IOW it takes a while for anything noticeable to happen. We attempt to establish some sort of rational training plan and then have patience.