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  • violasmith85
    violasmith85 Posts: 274 Member
    I eat under 20g a day. I do a LCHF diet and eat a lot of meat, cheese, cauliflower, broccoli, and green beans, butter and other fats. It's not difficult once you get the hang of it. There are carbs in most everything so it's important to keep watch with portion control. Adding more fat helps to feel full and keeping the carbs low helps to keep calories down.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    edited January 2015
    I do believe as a unit of energy a calorie is a calorie, but when it comes to how that calorie is used by our body the source is important.

    For example the first 20 - 30g of protein we eat will not be used by the body the same way the first 20 - 30g of carbs would be.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    tennisdude2004 wrote: »
    I do believe as a unit of energy a calorie is a calorie, but when it comes to how that calorie is used by our body the source is important.

    For example the first 20 - 30g of protein we eat will not be used by the body the same way the first 20 - 30g of carbs would be.

    There are a lot of variables that need to be considered. Timing of nutrients, context of overall diet, exercise and more. To suggest an apple is better than gummy bears is a ridiculous argument. For example, if you have just finished up a lot workout routine, where glycogen is highly depleted, then the better choice would be a gummy bear since dextrose is the quickest way of restoring glycogen stores and allow the proteins to rebuild muscle.

    Either way, it's not really necessary for the OP so lets stay on track.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    edited January 2015
    psulemon wrote: »
    tennisdude2004 wrote: »
    I do believe as a unit of energy a calorie is a calorie, but when it comes to how that calorie is used by our body the source is important.

    For example the first 20 - 30g of protein we eat will not be used by the body the same way the first 20 - 30g of carbs would be.

    There are a lot of variables that need to be considered. Timing of nutrients, context of overall diet, exercise and more. To suggest an apple is better than gummy bears is a ridiculous argument. For example, if you have just finished up a lot workout routine, where glycogen is highly depleted, then the better choice would be a gummy bear since dextrose is the quickest way of restoring glycogen stores and allow the proteins to rebuild muscle.

    Either way, it's not really necessary for the OP so lets stay on track.

    Not really sure where the relevance of glycogen depletion comes in (that's a bit off topic).

    Although to address that, you are suggesting the glycogen stores need to be replenished quickly, unless you are an elite athlete and will be working out again to those levels soon, then replenishing them quickly isn't really an issue.

    In fact if you are not going to be working out hard again for another couple of days the body on a low carb diet will take care of itself.

    To be fair this whole thread is off topic - there's not many food and meal suggestions, as per the OP's request.


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