mostly carbs for a day

monicaw44

what if you eat mostly carbs but you stay in your caloric goal where you will lose weight?...will you still steadily lose weight, bc carbs make you gain weight?

leanjogreen18

You will lose.

Depending on what carbs you are eating could determine how hungry you are. Eating simple carbs could make you not feel full long enough.

goldthistime

Well, you won't gain fat but you may not lose weight on the scale. Meaning you will retain water if your glycogen levels had been low and are now replenished.

SweatLikeDog

Eating more calories than you burn makes you gain weight. It's got nothing to do with carbs or macro ratios. The problem with carbs is that they spike your blood sugar faster than other food groups and leave you hungry sooner. You should balance your carbs with fats and proteins to control hunger.

malibu927

Carbs don't make you gain weight, excess calories do

kommodevaran

Carbs doesn't make you gain weight. Too many calories makes you gain weight. But a balanced diet is important for health, satiety, sanity, and ease of adherence to calorie goal. What do you mean by "mostly"? More than 40-50% of your calories from carbs is unlikely to be good for you, if you are trying to lose weight, because you need a certain, pretty constant amount of fat and protein, and with a fixed calorie budget, there will just not be room for that many carbs.

TravisGM92

Like everyone else here said, carbs themselves don't make you gain weight.

It's all about how many calories you eat. Think of calories like "amount" of something. Kind of like gallons. If you were to tell someone you have 5 gallons they might ask "of what?" Same with calories. You had 1,200 calories... of what? Carbs? What is your daily caloric requirement? If it's more than 1,200 calories than it won't matter if you eat that in carbs, fat or protein, you'd lose weight.

Definitely not a good idea though. You'll lose weight but a lot of that weight will include muscle. If you want to maintain your muscle, you'll need to eat more protein.

lemurcat12

For a day? Doesn't matter. One day isn't going to make a difference.

On average? You will lose weight, but to best maintain muscle you will want to hit a decent amount of protein (and ideally do some weight-bearing exercise, progressive is best) and for nutrition you will want to get in healthy fats and of course eat an overall healthy, balanced diet. (Some healthy balanced diets can be quite high carb, of course.)

monicaw44

thanks!

maxit

Eating "all carbs" over the long term might result in insufficient protein, which over the long term might increase lean body loss (so pounds are still lost, but more muscle and less fat).