How many carbs do you eat?

JDBLY11

Just wondering how many carbs people eat and if it effects your weight-loss negatively or positively?

I just started eating 40% carbs, 35% protein and 25% fat. It seems to be working. I am satisfied with my weight loss. I read on here that eating about the same amount of protein as your lean body mass helps to preserve muscle. I am eating 160 grams of carbs now.

I had been eating all the carbs I wanted for the last two months within my calories and I still lost fine.

steinsopp

100-250 g, (averaging ~175 g). I'm losing weight at a decent rate, so it doesn't seem to be affecting anything one way or another.

Lupercalia

I ate very low carb for some months, which was definitely beneficial for me at that point. I am still eating what is considered a low carb diet, just not as low as I was then, as I think eating that way can be really rough on the body long term, and especially for women.

If you don't have a proper medical directive from your doctor to restrict carbs, there isn't any reason to concern yourself with it. and eating low carb can actually be unhealthy for many people, leading to low thyroid function, amongst other things.

If your doctor hasn't suggested you restrict carbohydrate, it seems best to keep your carbs to a moderate level. Instead of restricting carbs, perhaps examine the sources of carbohydrate in your diet and make sure you're getting most of the carbs from healthy sources. Fruits and veggies including potatoes and sweet potatoes, rice, etc. as opposed to processed foods.

helpfit101

I would advice nobody to use extremely low carb diets unless you understand about ketosis. Low carb diets can bring about a state known as ketosis. You should google ketosis and understand how ketogenic diets bring it about and why.

Just stay with 40-40-20 or 40-30-30 or whatever.

However, for sugar in particular it's best not to eat too much. I think the default from MFP is good.

I think everyone should follow the default settings from this website and modify (slightly) from there unless they understand the consequences.

tonytoo

Under 50g a day. I've been in ketosis for over a month.

RickNeedzToGetShreaded

Depends on how much excersize you do but I'd say 200g Carbs.

momzeeee

I'm in maintenance and have my macro percentages set at 40% fat, 30% carbs and 30% protein. That equals 131 carbs a day. I'm transitioning to primal eating and Mark Sisson, the author of The Primal Blueprint, suggests 100-150 carbs a day for maintenance, so I'm right in the middle of that

yarwell

less than 30g. That's carbs as per UK labels, which don't have what Americans call "fiber" included.