Why are carbs so bad?

stroutman81

I think it's hilarious that OP has long since deleted her account and yet this thread still lives...

I didn't bump it for the sake of the OP. I bumped it because I received 5 emails today about people fearing carbohydrates like they do the boogie man.

stroutman81

I consistently lose faster and lose more inches in my abs when I am reducing carbs than when I am not, even being sure I'm in a deficit. I measure, I weigh (food and myself) and I test body fat % and see better results when I reduce my carbs, especially when I cut out grains.

Losing faster is a lot different than what you originally said... about gaining appreciable fat while dieting.

Losing faster can certainly make sense seeing as how each molecule of glycogen is accompanied by 3 molecules of water. And you might be insulin resistant.

So I can buy that.

reyna99

bump to read later, i don't like the boogie man

stroutman81

bump to read later, i don't like the boogie man

As you long as you don't like boogies. I hear they pack on a ton of fat if you eat them.

JustBreathSB

They're not bad if you don't eat them in excess :-)

stroutman81

I always heard it's the runny ones you need to watch out for. It's akin to the white, buttery sauces restaurants are infamous for drowning their pasta in. If you stick with the dry, hard ones... you should be good. They contain "good" carbs that don't violate the laws of energy.

TK421NotAtPost

If carbs are putting you in a calorie surplus, I could see how that's so.

I don't see how you're packing away slabs of fat that cover your muscle while being in a calorie deficit though. That stored energy has to come from someplace and if you're in an energy deficit... well...

Maybe if you're adding carbs at the expense of protein, and thus giving your body less of a reason to hold onto the "good stuff." But even there, it's a stretch.

After carefully tracking my carb intake and actually weighing all my food for a while, I can't help but to think that people will grossly underestimate the amount of calories they consume when on a moderate to high carb eating plan. It takes a small amount of starchy carbs to get an alarmingly high amount of calories.

Primal eating plan, like many other canned diet plans, is just another method to 'trick' you into eating less calories. There are 5 billion lean people on this planet that eat well above Sisson's "insidious weight gain" level of 150 grams of carbs per day.... my girlfriend being one of them.

stroutman81

If carbs are putting you in a calorie surplus, I could see how that's so.

I don't see how you're packing away slabs of fat that cover your muscle while being in a calorie deficit though. That stored energy has to come from someplace and if you're in an energy deficit... well...

Maybe if you're adding carbs at the expense of protein, and thus giving your body less of a reason to hold onto the "good stuff." But even there, it's a stretch.

After carefully tracking my carb intake and actually weighing all my food for a while, I can't help but to think that people will grossly underestimate the amount of calories they consume when on a moderate to high carb eating plan. It takes a small amount of starchy carbs to get an alarmingly high amount of calories.

Primal eating plan, like many other canned diet plans, is just another method to 'trick' you into eating less calories. There are 5 billion lean people on this planet that eat well above Sisson's "insidious weight gain" level of 150 grams of carbs per day.... my girlfriend being one of them.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Lyadeia

I have been scared of carbs for too long and I dont know why!! Im talking about starch! I love bread and oatmeal but cant eat them without feeling guilty! Why are carbs so bad for weight loss?

They're not!

Without reading all 7 pages here, I will just simply agree with this.

Low carb gained popularity in the 90s (even though it's been around much, much longer) because of certain fad diets that it's associated with. You can lose weight if you are eating sensibly and don't need a fad diet to do it.

...unless you are diabetic or otherwise sensitive to sugar more than most of the population...