how low are your carbs?

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  • Meggles63
    Meggles63 Posts: 916 Member
    I average about 200...lifting days, a bit more, rest day, a bit less!
  • willnorton
    willnorton Posts: 995 Member
    bump
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    Anywhere from 100 to 350 a day, averaging around 200 daily.
  • JenAiMarres
    JenAiMarres Posts: 743 Member
    35% of my macros...about 115 g a day...I usually go over just a little but I figure anything is better than what I used to consume!
  • FlyeredUp
    FlyeredUp Posts: 632 Member
    I eat as many carbs each day as possible.
  • PercivalHackworth
    PercivalHackworth Posts: 1,437 Member
    From 100 to 450
    When I train good, I hit 550 sometimes

    hell yea, gotta get those carbs no way around it

    No secret : carbs are power :bigsmile:
    When me haz no carbs : :sick:
  • fiveohmike
    fiveohmike Posts: 1,297 Member
    When I am low carbing it, I am hitting about 150g a day. Makes me feel sluggish while working out.

    Most of the time I am eating between 200-250g.

    No reason to deprive your body of energy.
  • victoriousnrltm
    victoriousnrltm Posts: 42
    Well this is a totally different topic but yes I am allergic (IG-E histamine) to sulfa drugs & sulfanimides (albuterol). I also have a metabolic intolerance to sulfites & foods with high available sulfur content i.e. I do not metabolically convert them to sulfates. This causes systemic (whole body) inflammation, interruption of energy production at the cellular level, & asthma. So I take large doses of B-12 & Chorella Algae to take care of that but I have to be really careful about my sulfite levels.
    TMI but ya asked!
    V~
  • overfences
    overfences Posts: 96 Member
    I shoot for 75 grams per day. Some days I'm a bit over, some days I'm a bit under; it all averages out for the week. The lower I go the better I feel.
  • overfences
    overfences Posts: 96 Member
    When I am low carbing it, I am hitting about 150g a day. Makes me feel sluggish while working out.

    Most of the time I am eating between 200-250g.

    No reason to deprive your body of energy.

    You don't deprive your body of energy by reducing carbs. Your body will burn FAT for energy, rather than glucose -- like it should.
  • Misha41810
    Misha41810 Posts: 22
    6 servings of 12g according to Lutz I see - wondered where 72 came from - I thought 42 was the answer.

    "the answer to life the universe and everything" :smokin:
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    When I am low carbing it, I am hitting about 150g a day. Makes me feel sluggish while working out.

    Most of the time I am eating between 200-250g.

    No reason to deprive your body of energy.

    You don't deprive your body of energy by reducing carbs. Your body will burn FAT for energy, rather than glucose -- like it should.

    Your body will still "burn fat", even with the carbs.
  • thistimeismytime
    thistimeismytime Posts: 711 Member
    TOTALLY INCORRECT. I urge you to delete or edit your post, as nothing spreads faster on the internet than nonsense :) heh!

    Oh, the irony.

    Indeed.

    I was thinking, "Define Irony....." lol
  • Establishedn1986
    Establishedn1986 Posts: 306 Member
    Lol!
  • Sidesteal
    Sidesteal Posts: 5,510 Member
    When I am low carbing it, I am hitting about 150g a day. Makes me feel sluggish while working out.

    Most of the time I am eating between 200-250g.

    No reason to deprive your body of energy.

    You don't deprive your body of energy by reducing carbs. Your body will burn FAT for energy, rather than glucose -- like it should.

    Your body will still "burn fat", even with the carbs.

    This^. Additionally, trying to manage fuel source is somewhat silly when you can just control intake and pick up heavy things, and the long term balance of fat oxidation and fat storage will take care of itself regardless of your bodies fuel source at a given snapshot of time.

    Lastly, since all I've done so far is giggle, I should answer the actual question.

    For me, when cutting my carbs tend to fall between 175 and 225 on average. When bulking, I tend to land between 250 and 400g on average.

    However, my intake values are set by applying a calorie ceiling and a protein/fat floor (min value). Carbs just end up wherever based on these parameters.

    My only restriction on carbs is to not go below about 175 or so, for performance/preferential reasons.
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    Anywhere from 200-400, depending on the day and how much I have cycled.
    I tend to feel sluggish and not too well when I cut it too low, for some reason, plus I believe in balance and moderation and following what my body tells me it needs from day to day, so sometimes it will be well below my carb goal, and somedays it goes over slightly. I am set at 45% carbs.
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    Hey temp666777,

    I like your style, I am an open-minded sort of guy and like to absorb all kinds of ideas in the hope of finding something that works for me, as I guess most of us do. I don't like the idea of regimes, strict recipes and deprivation. Or treating nutrition like a religion for that matter, however well a particular method seems to work personally.

    OK, I'm going to shell out for the Lutz book based on your posts, I can always use another angle and I'll be interested to see how it relates to work of Sisson, Taubes, et al.

    I have not heard of Eat Fat, Grow Slim (I have only been on this nutritional kick for a few months) and will add that to list also.

    Regarding my personal target of 30g, I find this quite achievable these days, sometimes I'll go over by 5g or so but I don't feel deprived at all and I don't snack. I am pretty active, a 26km walk is not unknown (but not regular, I tend to go for 10km or so every few days ;)) and have just come back from a day on the cricket pitch so I can't say I am lacking in energy.

    I guess I have adapted pretty well from being primarily a glucose burner to a fat burner and can honestly say discovering this stuff has improved my life no end.

    At the risk of sounding like another one of those fluffy success stories on Mark's Daily Apple I'll head off to check out the books ;)

    (edit) Ah, and regarding editing or deleting my post I will not do that because I said it at the time and believed it so it can stay, for good or bad ... If it is shown to be incorrect then I'm sure that will become apparent in due course. All views are valid, time will take care of what is closest to reality ;)
  • VanessaMFaulkner
    VanessaMFaulkner Posts: 82
    The only carbs I get come from my veggies & fruits. I don't eat the sweeter fruits either. ;)
  • Kalynx
    Kalynx Posts: 707 Member
    I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 8 yrs ago, and no medication for me for the past 7 yrs controling it with diet choices. I dont really track carbs on MFP but I can be as low as 85-120 for a few days and then go around 200-220 a day or too. I TRY to not make bread/pasta/carby foods the star of at least two of my three main meals, and rather focus on the veggies/protein..but it doesnt always go that way.
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    Just finished "Eat Fat, Grow Slim", I thought it made some pretty fundamental points very well and is clearly a precursor to the work of Taubes and the Paleo mob (and has precursors before that, clearly). I can't say I disagreed with anything in there (and found the ideal fat/protein ratio interesting) but I did pick out some amusing quotes:

    This one for it's John Lennon "Imagine" kind of vibe:
    Perhaps if we could sort out our international differences and stop spending so much money on the
    means of destruction, we could solve the problem of how to provide enough of these wonderful
    foods for everyone at a reasonable price. Obesity would then melt away and the world might return
    to the Garden of Eden before the serpent tempted Eve to eat carbohydrate-even the small amount in
    an apple.

    This one for bringing Hitler into it long before this became the fashion in heated forum debates:
    Ever since Cain, the agriculturalist, killed Abel, the hunter, it has seemed that a diet of fat and
    protein makes for mental and physical stability while vegetarianism, with its high-carbohydrate
    intake, encourages the opposite.

    Hitler was a vegetarian and Davy Crockett was a meat eater.

    And this one because I bloody like it!:
    This confirms the belief - quite widely held - that pink gins are slimming. Probably all alcoholic
    drinks except those like beer which contain large amounts of carbohydrate, are slimming too.
  • thistimeismytime
    thistimeismytime Posts: 711 Member
    Just finished "Eat Fat, Grow Slim", I thought it made some pretty fundamental points very well and is clearly a precursor to the work of Taubes and the Paleo mob (and has precursors before that, clearly). I can't say I disagreed with anything in there (and found the ideal fat/protein ratio interesting) but I did pick out some amusing quotes:

    This one for it's John Lennon "Imagine" kind of vibe:
    Perhaps if we could sort out our international differences and stop spending so much money on the
    means of destruction, we could solve the problem of how to provide enough of these wonderful
    foods for everyone at a reasonable price. Obesity would then melt away and the world might return
    to the Garden of Eden before the serpent tempted Eve to eat carbohydrate-even the small amount in
    an apple.

    This one for bringing Hitler into it long before this became the fashion in heated forum debates:
    Ever since Cain, the agriculturalist, killed Abel, the hunter, it has seemed that a diet of fat and
    protein makes for mental and physical stability while vegetarianism, with its high-carbohydrate
    intake, encourages the opposite.

    Hitler was a vegetarian and Davy Crockett was a meat eater.

    And this one because I bloody like it!:
    This confirms the belief - quite widely held - that pink gins are slimming. Probably all alcoholic
    drinks except those like beer which contain large amounts of carbohydrate, are slimming too.

    :laugh: OMG, I actually LOL'd at the Serpent tempting Eve to eat a carb quote! :laugh: The Hitler and Davy Crockett reference also merited a good chuckle. :laugh: I assume these quotes were MEANT to be humorous, not serious examples, right?? I'm hoping....tooooo funny. :bigsmile:
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    Hitler was not a vegetarian! People just love to slam vegies with that myth.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Hitler was not a vegetarian! People just love to slam vegies with that myth.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_vegetarianism

    includes referenced items like "The April 14, 1996, Sunday magazine edition of The New York Times, includes this description of Hitler's diet in an article first published on May 30, 1937, 'At Home With The Führer.' "'It is well known that Hitler is a vegetarian and does not drink or smoke. His lunch and dinner consist, therefore, for the most part of soup, eggs, vegetables and mineral water, although he occasionally relishes a slice of ham and relieves the tediousness of his diet with such delicacies as caviar ..."[18]"
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    Oh yes, of course if a newspaper article is quoted on Wikipedia then it has to be the absolute truth. You should have kept looking. That page, as I remember, also says that Hitler's favorite dishes were roast squab and sausages.

    At that time vegetarian meals were a medical prescription for stomach problems. Hitler reduced his consumption of meat and some historians took that to mean he was a vegetarian, when he was not.

    Even if Hitler was a vegetarian, so what? As I said the last time this came up. Hitler also loved dogs. So I guess that makes anyone with a pet dog JUST LIKE HITLER!

    OMG! I have 3 dogs. I'm 3X as bad as Hitler!

    It's insulting and offensive BS whichever way you slice it.

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