carbs...are they the enemy?

VeronicaA76

Nope. CICO is CICO no matter what you eat. Now, too many high carb foods might make it difficult to get the nutrients your body needs without going into a calorie surplus. Most high carb foods, tend to be lacking in a lot of nutrients. Say you need 2000 calories a day to maintain, so you eat at 1500 calories a day to lose 1lb/week, but the only things you eat are French fries and Coke, sure you'll lose weight, but you will also make yourself very sick (malnutrition).

Make sure you are accurately weighing your foods (measuring cups are terrible for solids). If you are not losing weight AND are logging a calorie deficit, errors in food quantity is the #1 reason for not losing weight even though you should be.

kokonani

CoriPiche wrote: »

I eat 20 grams of carbs a day only and have lost 8 inches off waist and hips in 10 days. Down 7 pounds in 10 days.

It's water weight, sorry. It happens in the first week. Losing weight comes from calorie deficit, not carb deficit.

kokonani

I was miserable on low to no carb. I eat very high carb now abd loving it! Don't be afraid of carbs. It's calories, not carbs.

stevencloser

What's with people not realizing vegetables are carbs?

Holly_981

No. Simple.

lemurcat12

VeronicaA76 wrote: »

Nope. CICO is CICO no matter what you eat. Now, too many high carb foods might make it difficult to get the nutrients your body needs without going into a calorie surplus. Most high carb foods, tend to be lacking in a lot of nutrients.

Again, no. Many of the most nutrient-dense diets are high carb, like an 80-10-10 plant-based approach.

I recently switched from a low carb back to a average carb kind of diet, and what I added back in is fruit, some whole grains (mostly some corn, since it's in season now), occasional potatoes and sweet potatoes, and even more vegetables (including higher carb root veg like turnips and beets and carrots) than I was eating before. And while I ate a lot of vegetables and some nuts and dairy even doing low carb, those foods were always busting my carb limit, because they have carbs. Vegetables in particular ARE carbs, that's their main macro.

Say you need 2000 calories a day to maintain, so you eat at 1500 calories a day to lose 1lb/week, but the only things you eat are French fries and Coke, sure you'll lose weight, but you will also make yourself very sick (malnutrition).

French fries are at least half fat (and the only real nutrition in them comes from the carbs -- the potato).

Stereotyping carbs as "Coke" is nuts.

Fuzzipeg

My domestic Science teacher insisted chips, UK style contain more vit c than boiled or mashed because vit c is water soluble, might apply to French fries too.

GottaBurnEmAll

Meh. You lose about 30-40% of the vitamin C boiling peeled potatoes. If you eat a varied diet, you can get plenty of vitamin C from other sources.

I find boiled potatoes to be one of the most satiating foods I can eat. I'll continue to boil them.

I tend to boil mine early in the day to save time later, and there's an argument to be made that in doing that and reheating them that I'm creating resistant starch, which is all kinds of good for my gut bacteria.

lemurcat12

Yeah, C is not something that I'm ever low on (just checked on Cron and I have 177% with just breakfast), and I normally eat potatoes roasted (just like them best that way), can't imagine why there would be some nutritional benefit to frying them. That said, if you love good fries (and I do), no harm in fitting them in occasionally. I just find it weird to refer to them as carbs when they are at least half fat, and the carb part is easily available in lower calorie options and is reasonably nutritious.

Iamnotasenior

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends that 10 to 35 percent of your caloric intake should come from protein. The average individual should have 0.35 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day, meaning that someone who weighs 165 pounds should consume around 60 grams per day. The recommended amount of protein increases as we get older and if we are trying to gain muscle. ACSM points out "this level of intake can generally be met through diet alone and without additional protein and amino acid supplementation."

lemurcat12

Iamnotasenior wrote: »

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends that 10 to 35 percent of your caloric intake should come from protein. The average individual should have 0.35 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day, meaning that someone who weighs 165 pounds should consume around 60 grams per day. The recommended amount of protein increases as we get older and if we are trying to gain muscle. ACSM points out "this level of intake can generally be met through diet alone and without additional protein and amino acid supplementation."

Did you post this in the wrong thread?

katnadreau

Carbs are enemies to sadness.

piperdown44

Why yes, carbs are the enemy!
In fact, to take one for the team, go ahead and send me all the carbs and I'll take care of them for you! (tongue in cheek humor).

Fuzzipeg

Sorry folks, its just the one thing I remembered, something had to stick from school. Way back then she thought it was important for us to know. (vit c not leaching into the fats) Domestic science teachers have gone the way of the dinosaurs in the intervening decades.

cee134

Carbs are not the enemy. Processed carbs would be close though.

kokonani

Fuzzipeg wrote: »

Sorry folks, its just the one thing I remembered, something had to stick from school. Way back then she thought it was important for us to know. (vit c not leaching into the fats) Domestic science teachers have gone the way of the dinosaurs in the intervening decades.

What!?

JaydedMiss

I already posted but...Mmmmm carbs. I think im going to have a big plate of potatoes tonight at dinner. Yummy

lemurcat12

The carbs I processed into a delicious gazpacho were most certainly not the enemy!

Sp1tfire

I'm married to carbohydrates in all of their forms.

For real though, I feel unsatisfied and tired if I don't eat enough carbs. I was once swayed by the low carb 'woo' but I felt awful so I'm back to my 'everything in moderation within my calories' plan.

MommaGem2017

I need to go eat some carbs now. Mmmmm....