Saw my doctor today to get advise about diet and get tests

mdmarcha

He doesn't think I'm insulin resistant because my fat distribution is even and not overly stored in abdomen/chest. He thinks my tiredness/fatigue midday and after I eat may be low iron, since my last test showed it borderline low, but I was unsymptomatic at the time. the one thing he did ask me to do while we wait for my results was to make sure I eat 100g/carbs a day and if it turns out I have insulin problems, we can drop that temporarily.

He said that 100g CHO was the minimum he can recommend somebody of my size/activity level should get. Doesn't this seem really high?

JennLifts

not at all high. low actually.

XFitMojoMom

coming from a low carber, I'd say for someone your height and weight it seems totally reasonable, just be sure your carbs are coming from reasonable sources (vegs/fruits). SAD is 200+g/CHO daily, which I wouldn't recommend.

curious however, being 6'1 and 190 it seems your weight would be on target, why would you want to be 150?

McKayMachina

Not high at all. My carb goal is 120/day. That's 40% of my intake. A perfect cross between Mayo Clinic's guidelines and the P90X Lean fat-burning recommendations.

James_1954

I know next to nothing about this, except that my nutritionist/dietician has me on 225 daily grams of carbohydrates. So, no, to me 100 g doesn't sound like a lot. It sounds more like a famine.

However, when we pay learned professionals for their advice, I think we do well to act accordingly.

Just my two cents' worth ...

brandimacleod

Oncve you realize the carb values in vegetables and fruit, you won't think that's high at all. Carbs are in a lot more foods than you think!

mdmarcha

coming from a low carber, I'd say for someone your height and weight it seems totally reasonable, just be sure your carbs are coming from reasonable sources (vegs/fruits). SAD is 200+g/CHO daily, which I wouldn't recommend.

curious however, being 6'1 and 190 it seems your weight would be on target, why would you want to be 150?

I lost weight very wrong and rapidly at the begining (started at 285lbs) and lost lots of LBM.I'm losing weight at a much better pace now, but I am now what is called "skinny fat". I need to get my bf down (still 22% by bod pod) before I start adding muscle/weight.

Oh, he also wants me to up my calories to 2500 and I "didn't need to worry about not losing weight at that intake". Seems like a high calorie intake to me too.

alyssamiller77

He doesn't think I'm insulin resistant because my fat distribution is even and not overly stored in abdomen/chest. He thinks my tiredness/fatigue midday and after I eat may be low iron, since my last test showed it borderline low, but I was unsymptomatic at the time. the one thing he did ask me to do while we wait for my results was to make sure I eat 100g/carbs a day and if it turns out I have insulin problems, we can drop that temporarily.

He said that 100g CHO was the minimum he can recommend somebody of my size/activity level should get. Doesn't this seem really high?

The only people I know that would find that recommendation high would be the seroius low-carb crowd. I've read some diet plans that suggest 50-100 is normal. I just can't buy into that. I'm usually eating somewhere near 150 on a low day.

XFitMojoMom

Well, I know a lot of skinny fat people who started building muscle before losing BF, and BF just sorta' melted away. I wouldn't lose that much weight! Build muscle, it's the right thing to do!

KavemanKarg

He doesn't think I'm insulin resistant because my fat distribution is even and not overly stored in abdomen/chest. He thinks my tiredness/fatigue midday and after I eat may be low iron, since my last test showed it borderline low, but I was unsymptomatic at the time. the one thing he did ask me to do while we wait for my results was to make sure I eat 100g/carbs a day and if it turns out I have insulin problems, we can drop that temporarily.

He said that 100g CHO was the minimum he can recommend somebody of my size/activity level should get. Doesn't this seem really high?

The only people I know that would find that recommendation high would be the seroius low-carb crowd. I've read some diet plans that suggest 50-100 is normal. I just can't buy into that. I'm usually eating somewhere near 150 on a low day.

On primal 50-100 a day is fat loss, 100-150 a day is maintenance, provided you are doing the regular exercise and such.

If your doctor is recommending 100-150 a day, at 2300 calories a day, I would say welcome to the low carb life. It can be quite healthy.

There is this view that low carb is only people who eat 25 net carbs a day. Most of us go over that by a fair bit. Many studies have shown benefits reducing daily carbs to even just 40% of daily intake of calories.

Obviously your iron level is a concern, you may wish to avoid foods that can block iron uptake such as legumes, peanuts, infact many nuts.