How many Grams of Carbs are you eating???

tameejean

I can fairly easily stay under 50 grams a day.

B: Eggs and bacon (or leftover meat from the night before), and heavy whipping cream in coffee
L: Leftovers from the night before (meat) and hardboiled eggs
Meat and veggie (fairly small serving of veggies)

I get about 20-40 grams from veges.
I also lift for approx. 50 minutes every day, plus 15 minutes stair climber and 30 minute easy-run

Once you switch over from being a carbohydrate burner to a fat burner, it pretty simple to cut out most carbohydrates. Ketosis is a wonderful thing!
On a side note, I’m pretty much in maintenance mode. I’m 5’-7” and weigh 124-127. I would like to get and stay in the lower 120s, but hey, I’m not killing myself over it.  Hope this helps!

I'd like to keep more veggies and fruits in my diet, but you certainly make it look easy to keep it under 50 I'm normally in your weight range (same height), but I put on a few pesky pounds in the last year that seem so hard to make go away, lol!

10KEyes

OK so I got some info off of Mark's Daily apple. (if you are currently not reading it, you should. it's full of great stuff!)
but anyways, he suggest eating 50 - 100 g/day for the 'Primal Sweet Spot for effortless weight loss.' along with eating .7-1 g of protien per lean body mass. i am struggling to hit both the numbers. I eat over on the carbs and under on the protein. And i thought i was close to the protein number. I know i could eat less fruit.

Does anybody else get close to these nubmers???? and how do you do it??

75g or 15%

Yes I do usually get close or just a hair over, rarely I may hit 80-89g. I don't start fretting unless it looks like I am going to hit or over shoot 100g, which has never happened.

The carbs and fat I don't have any problems hitting. It is the protein that I have problems getting up to 125g (.7 model). I had problems reaching the goal at 1g per lb, so I decided to drop it to .7 per lb and see. Well I still can't hit the goal. Although I usually break 100g of protein. I don't want to drink/eat protein supplements, so I try to do it through my food alone.

graygirl73

I was eating the recommended 50-100g /day but then I hit a long plateau. I started sticking closer to 50g a day and the weight has started to come off again.

missyyclaire

I'm trying to stay VLC this month, though yesterday I blew it and hit 94. It was a response to an emotional day, plus I was really sleepy/tired and now getting a chest cold, so my resistance was down. It's not surprising that the day after I eat more carbs, I start getting sick. This happened in January...eating low carb, slipped one night and the next day a cold came on full blown.

Mark Sisson did mention in his book that sugar can certainly lower our immune system...and that seems to be the truth for me.

I'm trying to stay in ketosis this month, and have been doing a personal 30 day challenge since Monday. So, my goals are to try to stay around 20g net carbs per day (total carbs minus fiber = net carbs}

ethelapple

I try to stay under 50 g of carbs (and usually end up around 40)....protein, I usually try to hit 100 g of protein....eggs for breakfast, bacon or sausage, a couple of chicken legs, some nuts, sometimes egg white protein (in a smoothie), full fat Fage yogurt, etc....

beccarockslife

I stay under 50g firmly, I don't eat much fruit though.