In fact, glycogen is the sugar stored in our body. Mainly stored in muscle and liver. What is the name stored in the muscle? Muscle glycogen? Usually, the body needs it most when exercising at moderate or above intensity; What is stored in the liver is called. Liver glycogen? Stabilizing blood sugar between meals depends on liver glycogen.

The body stores glycogen, which is also a way to store energy substances. This is not essentially different from the function of storing fat. However, they all store energy, fat and glycogen, which have different effects on body weight.

The principle of sugar is different. For every 1 g glycogen stored in the body, you need to store about 3 grams of water at the same time, and some people can even reach 4 grams. Therefore, glycogen has more water, less dry goods, and the energy of sugar itself is not high. Therefore, for sugar, the stored energy is limited, but it will bring about a substantial increase in weight.

The human body can generally store more than 500 grams of glycogen. These glycogen, together with the stored water, generally weigh 2 ~ 3 kilograms. When glycogen increases, it will replenish extra water to the body. When glycogen decreases, the water attached to it is lost. So the increase or decrease of glycogen will have a significant impact on body weight? A little more, the weight will increase rapidly; If you are thinner, you will lose weight quickly.

Truth 2: The loss of protein brings about the loss of water.

When we lose weight quickly, another reason why the human body loses water is through the loss of protein. protein includes both protein in muscles and protein in our internal organs.

Many people know that the wrong way to lose weight is to lose weight. Lose muscle? Yes, then some people will ask: will the wrong way to lose weight make the internal organs smaller? I really don't want to scare you. It's true. For example, our liver contains about 65,438+000 grams of protein, which can be used for turnover when protein is insufficient or sugar is insufficient. Excessive dieting may even lead to the breakdown of protein in the heart.

Why lose protein and lose water?

This is because, whether it is viscera or muscle containing a lot of protein, the water content is very high. Take muscle as an example, about 70% of which is water. Therefore, losing protein in the body is equivalent to losing a lot of water at the same time.

Finally, if losing weight leads to a large loss of protein, it will also reduce blood volume. Because the body has lost some blood-rich and oxygen-consuming tissues (muscles and internal organs), it doesn't need so much blood to supply oxygen. The decrease of blood volume and the loss of water will soon be reflected in the rapid decline of body weight.