No carbs at dinner?

tigersword

I have not had carbs at dinner time for years now - Its easy to just have grilled steak , chicken, burger, or any other meat you may like add a nice salad to the side and a cooked vegetable or veggie homemade soup U wake up with such a nice feeling in the morning.

You don't eat carbs, but you eat salad and veggies. Do you know what carbs are? Salad and veggies...

nerge

I generally try and not eat carbs at dinner but it's the only way I find I can keep my cals at the right level. Try grating cauliflower and frying it in a pan for a few mins - voila cauliflower rice! Yum and fills you up and is basically no calories so if you have a curry or whatever it soaks it up !! yum!

movinghelpers

you need carbs !!! i would avoid eating the starchy carbs at night. your body processes them better in the morning or really early afternoon, depending on your sleep schedule. try to get most of your carbs from from dark green veggies i.e: broccoli,spinach,romaine lettuce,etc..and if you do eat starches make sure they are whole wheat. that no carbs at night theory has been going around forever. its a theory based on insulin and glucose and fat storage but IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE!! eat carbs anytime you want but try to eat the starchy carbs earlier in the day b/c ur body processes them better at that time

tigersword

you need carbs !!! i would avoid eating the starchy carbs at night. your body processes them better in the morning or really early afternoon, depending on your sleep schedule. try to get most of your carbs from from dark green veggies i.e: broccoli,spinach,romaine lettuce,etc..and if you do eat starches make sure they are whole wheat. that no carbs at night theory has been going around forever. its a theory based on insulin and glucose and fat storage but IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE!! eat carbs anytime you want but try to eat the starchy carbs earlier in the day b/c ur body processes them better at that time

Huh? Your body processes starches differently at different times? Where did you get that from? You're countering a myth with another myth...

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

In my opinion, when the "C" word is brought up on a bad light, it is almost always referring to refinded and processed carbs. Bread. Pasta. White Rice. If I keep my carb intake to unprocessed carbs like veggies (and in some cases whole grains) I don't feel like I have broken the cardinal carb rule. Refined carbs turn into sugar almost immediatly. You should avoid them at all times, not just dinner time. Try something like sweet potatoes. Yummy, unprocessed, and really good.

False. ALL carbs are converted to sugar, not just refined carbs. As for how long the process takes, that depends a lot more on the rest of the meal, as rate of digestion varies with the types and amounts of food eaten.

Also sweet potatoes are carbs.

grantdumas7

It's probably ideal to eat carbs at dinner or anytime at night. Carbs cause serotonin levels to rise which relaxes you and makes it easier to fall asleep.

ldrosophila

Are you diabetic or insulin resistant?

Is he an actual Registered Dietitian or Nutritionist? You said you went to him originally as an RD what for?

Oh NVM I see you say he is registered. Meh, seems fishy to me.

ldrosophila

Also sweet potatoes are carbs.

Shhhhhh we dont talk about the holy grail in such disparaging words. That's like saying blueberries or quinoa is a carb.

MB_Positif

I don't know, but I eat carbs like a champ and it hasn't hurt my progress.

livesthere

I eat carbs a lot. I love carbs. I always been a more slim build, so I don't think they're all bad. I think if that's ALL you eat it can be bad, but you should be eating good quality carbohydrates and not processed crap. Can't hurt to try it though, and see how you feel. Personally, I think I would feel hungry if I didn't have some carbs to fill me up a little. Plus it gives me great fuel at the gym!

Obviously I am not at all an expert just sharing my own thoughts and experience.

GOOD LUCK!

amandatapar

I love grilled chicken and veggies for dinner. Like broccoli, green beans, zucchini,etc. I don't eat pasta, rice, most breads anymore though. It is very filling and sometimes I'll have a piece of fresh fruit for dessert sometimes.

haymancm

I think counting calories is more important than counting carbs. My macros are set @ 30/30/40 for carbs/protein/fat. But, I pay more attention to calories than carbs & still lose weight. Carbs are even found in veggies!!!

Add me if you'd like.

Sarauk2sf

Ignore your trainer when it comes to nutrition.

LatinaGordita

two egg cheese omelet, with 4 slices of bacon makes a great dinner. Put some fresh spinach when you fold the omelet, if you want to add some veggies. yum!

justal313

I eat carbs at dinner, sometimes it's pasta, sometimes its a potato (white or sweet) some times it's rice, some times it's fruit and to top it off I often have some kind of dessert that features carbs before going to bed. It might be milk and a kashi cookie, it might be my homemade ice cream, sometimes its a little dark chocolate. I've lost a whole lot of weight and I do not fear carbs.

Carbs, carby carb carbs :drinker:

2spamagnet

Carbs are not evil. Fat is not evil. Sugar is not evil.

Eating foods in excess of the calories you burn is what leads to storage of energy as fat cells.

Enjoy carbs any time of the day, within your calorie allotment.

An extra 3500 calories (over what you burn) will be stored as 1 lb of fat. It does not matter what those 3500 calories are made from, you'll still end up with 1 lb of fat stored to be used when you are at a deficit. At that time, your body will convert stored fat into the form it needs at the time.

If you feel better when not eating carbs at dinner (you sleep better, you wake up less groggy, you don't get gas, whatever...), then do it that way. Otherwise, enjoy life. You can eat all the food you love while losing weight (you only have to eat less).

Enjoy!

ilovelucy711

Maybe try spaghetti squash or quinoa as a substitute for pasta and rice? I think you can have carbs a few times a week. Maybe cut down on carbs during the day?

_TastySnoBalls_

Get a new trainer

sinistras

I just had a baked potato for dinner with nutritional yeast seasoning on it...mmmmmm...carbs are great.

AllonsYtotheTardis

Carbs right up til bed time. Hasn't hurt my progress.

jenilla1

I eat carbs whenever I want. :drinker:

CyberEd312

I eat carbs all the way up to taking some to bed every night, nothing wrong with carbs and losing weight unless you have a medical condition that would change that stance... I am a Type 2 diabetic and still eat carbs... Just monitor my intake of them same as my other Macro's...... I would seriously question your trainers intentions myself.... Best of Luck

teamAmelia

I'm struggling with reducing carbs

Maybe that's why he told you to reduce carbs at dinner. This is his way of helping you reduce. So, eat them during the day, but not at dinner. Just eat meat, veggies, and fruit. Not that hard. When I think about carbs, I think about bread.

primal7

Maybe your trainer wanted you to limited your grain in take at night?
I would ask your trainer for more detail on why the restriction/limitations.

xoeva

I love carbs,,,,, but today for dinner I ate baked cod, acorn squash with a bit of parmesan cheese, steamed Brussel sprouts and a corn...oh maybe one of those is a 'carb' but I look at carbs as = bread, pasta, rice. I'm pretty full! But For the last 3 months I haven't eaten a plate of pasta like I used to. I tired spaghetti squash the other day instead of spaghetti and put tomato sauce and parmesan cheese on it as it were normal pasta and it was actually tasty.

Mijj779

Okay, I limit my carbs maaaaaaaajorly. As in, I don't eat many carbs after breakfast. But I am also hyper-athletic and that is what works for me.
Some ideas: zucchini pasta, spaghetti squash, any other kind of squash (I love squash), salads, grilled veggies, veggie soup, poultry, fish, red meat, mashed cauliflower (best thing ever), green smoothies (careful with the fruit you add in though, adds carbs), green juices..... honestly, the list goes on and on. Look at the Atkins website for some recipes!

jensiegel39

Hi all,

Thanks so much for all of your replies! Many of you have suggested alternatives. But I can't stress enough that I'm such a picky eater! It's so hard for me to find what to eat, dieting or not. I am trying to push myself to eat new foods, but it's really tough.

For dinner tonight, I had two eggs scrambled with onions and green pepper and just a little bit (1 tsp.) of whipped butter. I had two slices of Sara Lee Delightful Multigrain toast (17 g of carbs for both pieces). I put a little cheese on the eggs and a touch of salsa because I was low on fats today.

I think if I keep the carbs low at dinner, I should be okay. I just don't know if I could have no carbs and feel satisfied with my meal. I'll try it tomorrow and see.

Today, I also tried to eat more calories than yesterday. Yesterday, I did not eat nearly enough. If you look at my diary, I switched the days by mistake, so Sunday is today and Monday was yesterday! Don't ask - I'm new!

Anyway, glad to hear from those of you who say you eat carbs and still lose. Although I am really watching them, I just cannot eliminate them completely. However, I have found brown rice, low carb pasta and low carb wraps and breads, and I am trying to eat them quite sparingly. So, I hope that's an improvement over what I used to do.

Jen

tessmca

I stick to low carb veges Mushrooms broccoli, cumber, lettuce, peppers, strawberrys
mainly have salads with meat for tea, and salads with protein for lunch as well

http://www.carbohydrate-counter.org/

longtimeterp

An extra 3500 calories (over what you burn) will be stored as 1 lb of fat. It does not matter what those 3500 calories are made from, you'll still end up with 1 lb of fat stored to be used when you are at a deficit. At that time, your body will convert stored fat into the form it needs at the time.

I call FALSIES!!! 1) If you lift weights, extra calories can go towards muscle building! 2) Alcohol is metabolized by the liver so an extra 30 pack of lite beer doesn't turn directly into fat either!!!

jensiegel39

I think he said because I would go to sleep shortly after dinner and not burn them off. He said if it was too hard, I could eat carbs with dinner like every fourth night. I still think that's too much of a stretch for me. I mean, I'm trying to make a lifestyle change, not change everything so completely that I'm miserable! Since I'm so limited in what I like, cutting carbs completely from dinner just seems outlandish to me! Maybe I'll get there eventually, with some more experimentation. Right now, I'm just trying to find enough foods to eat each day to have enough of each thing but not overdo each thing and have enough calories. Yesterday, I was almost 800 calories too low! And I felt I ate a lot. I think while I have this time off, I'll have to research some easy no carb/low carb recipes of stuff I will actually eat so that when I return to work, it's doable and I don't give up. Right now, the food aspect (especially dinner) feels like such a struggle. Not with me being hungry - I actually don't feel hungry and feel like I'm eating a lot more than usual - but with having things I actually like to eat that aren't bad for me!