Eating too many carbs?

I find I maintain on about 100 net. I don't really lose unless im under 50. That's just me though. Low carb helped me lose most of my weight and I've been maintaining 110 for about a year.

Carb up lol I cut weight using 40/40/20, carb, prot, fat. Now a days I'll sometimes eat 80/10/10 n get carbed out my mind, I jus ate bout 9 bananas 2 apples, and a bag of dates throughout the day n was stuffed n bloated, woke up the next morning with a flat stomach and had of my best run and leg workouts of my life, carbs are your source of evergy and it really doesn't matter when u eat them, though I wouldn't smash carbs right when u go to sleep, might not b able to sleep good but all that carbs are bad is myth truely I've came from being 340+ lbs n got all the way down to 182 n I look back and was eating bowls of cereal 3x a day, white rice n chicken with bread at every other meal, a carb is a carb jus eat whatever will keep u satisfied and within your daily caloric needs and you'll b fine... GL!

It's definitely all about the kinds of carbs you're eating. Processed foods and sugar are high in carbs sometimes and they make ME want more carbs, so be aware if you're getting caught in that sort of trap. I only eat 40% carbs and I'm never hungry and rarely reach my calorie goal.

just try a little harder every day. you'll get there.

No sugar, no white/ refined carbs, limit highly processed wheat flour products like commercial breakfast cereal and many breads,

MYTH

Best tell that to all the authors of published research papers and textbooks I read for my last degree then. And all the dieticians and other medical professionals that agree highly processed carbs and sugars have deleterious health effects.

There's always a cherry to be picked.

"All the dietitians" do *NOT* agree. That's not even a myth, just something you thought up while typing.

As long as you don't binge, there is no difference dieting on haribo or brown rice. Not binging on simple sugars is the difficult bit however.

No sugar, no white/ refined carbs, limit highly processed wheat flour products like commercial breakfast cereal and many breads,

MYTH

Best tell that to all the authors of published research papers and textbooks I read for my last degree then. And all the dieticians and other medical professionals that agree highly processed carbs and sugars have deleterious health effects.

Dose and context should always be considered before making blanket statements. Recommending the complete elimination of sugar or refined carbs can be a recipe for disaster in terms of dietary adherence.

Additionally, have you seen any research suggesting that in the presence of a nutrient rich diet, the inclusion of white bread is detrimental? Consider dose and context here. How much white bread is "bad"?

In a hypocaloric diet that consists of "mostly" nutrient dense and whole foods, I have yet to see anything suggesting that a moderate amount of processed food is harmful in any way.

Agreed, except for the last part. High GI carbs are great for post-workout insulin spike and faster recovery.

Can you tell me what you mean by this?

Spiking insulin will rapidly replenish muscle glycogen. Whether or not you need to do this would depend on muscle glycogen status (are you depleted to begin with?) and whether or not you are performing another glycogen depleting event within the next day (applicable for endurance athletes in some conditions, irrelevant for most of the population).

No sugar, no white/ refined carbs, limit highly processed wheat flour products like commercial breakfast cereal and many breads,

MYTH

Best tell that to all the authors of published research papers and textbooks I read for my last degree then. And all the dieticians and other medical professionals that agree highly processed carbs and sugars have deleterious health effects.

Would you care to share those papers that state that processed carbs are deleterious to health, regardless of context, dosage, and the rest of the diet? I'm very interested in seeing those, especially in a textbook, as I have never read a single paper that has made such a generic, blanket statement like that. I've also never talked to a registered dietician that has held that point of view either. Processed carbs for someone with a metabolic syndrome that doesn't eat enough protein, sure, but someone who is healthy and eats a wide variety of foods, including some processes carbs? Hogwash. Please, prove me wrong, because I honestly think you are making your entire post up.

Everyone is different. If I ate the level of carbs you ate, I would be hungry all the time. Personally for me, I do best with Carbs / Protein / Fat at 15% / 25% / 60% for losing weight. For maintaining my weight, I do best with at these levels: 20% / 25% / 55%.

Not much of a variation, but I get my carbs from vegetables first, then nuts and seeds and lastly fruit. I no longer eat any legumes or grains.

Your intake of fat is 60% ?

[Spiking insulin will rapidly replenish muscle glycogen. Whether or not you need to do this would depend on muscle glycogen status (are you depleted to begin with?) and whether or not you are performing another glycogen depleting event within the next day (applicable for endurance athletes in some conditions, irrelevant for most of the population).

Thank you.

How would I know what my muscle glycogen status is?