re: Biology, Chemist and Biochemist OTers: Help me understand weight loss.

Basically your body is going to burn carbs unless there are no carbs. Then it will start burning your fat stores.

So if you limit your carbs you'll be able to lose weight faster. If you eat a pizza and then go to the gym and run 6 miles, you're just going to be burning off the carbs from the pizza, not fat stores.

It's a little more complicated than that, but if you use that as a general guide, you'll lose fat a lot faster.