Frustrated? Carb in , Carb out?

I eat whatever satisfies my macros for the day , I did switch to Ezekial bread and organic peanut butter and things that had a ton of chemicals and such in them we switched fast. But its honestly not what your eating, but how much you are eating!!

low-carbing is currently a diet fad.

in a couple of years, it will be replaced by something else. that's how the weight loss industry works.

I sure wish the food industry would jump on the carb bandwagon, in that case. You find VERY few products that have the carb content in bold letters on the front like they do fat and calories. I am more interested in that. Low fat and calories is SO 70's.

I might add that it is difficult to get enough dietary fiber while eating as much protein as many seem to think they need today, all the while keeping calories down. 1g of protein = 4 cals 1g of fat = 9 cals so let's do the math:

184LBM * .85 * 4 = 625.6
184LBM * .35 * 9 = 579.6
That's 1205.2 calories and I haven't had a single carb....

Somehow, without eating too much I have to now get close to 38g of fiber....225 calories of Rice and Quinoa gets me about 5g of fiber...

Exactly where do I get the rest?
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fiber/NU00033

My advice, for what it's worth, is to learn about complex carbs and dietary fiber and to get plenty of it unless you spend a lot of time weight training or doing a lot of cardio and then only increase the protein cals on those days.

38 grams of fiber per day? My goal is like 15-20 grams per day. I would be so gassy if I ate that much fiber!

Causes

Fiber is a kind of carbohydrate from plants that your body can’t digest. Fiber aids in bowel movements by softening your stool and giving it bulk. However, since many low-carb diets limit fruit and vegetable consumption because of the sugars they contain, some dieters end up with hard stools that are difficult to pass. Constipation leads to gas and a bloated feeling. Also, as Health 101 explains, the sugar alcohols like lacitol and sorbitol that sweeten many processed low-carb snacks can cause digestive disturbances and gas in large quantities.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/300356-gas-bloating-low-carb-diet/#ixzz2Y173o0yT

It's not complex carbs that cause gas etc.

Okay so it came off as I was trying to push carbs down your throats.

I was more like wondering about how or why people do the low carb diets. I do understand that you sometimes need low carb do to health issues. I mean I have days where I am lower in carb but my macro is 168g daily for weight maintenance. If I go super low my mood is just really crappy as I've witnessed with other people who do the low carb lifestyle. I just feel like doing the Atkins way is odd because a carb is our brains fuel and it is a macro after all. That's all.

“Fat is the perfect fuel, Dr. Michael Eades wrote on his blog. “Part of it provides energy to the liver so that the liver can convert protein to glucose. The unusable part of the fat then converts to ketones, which reduce the need for glucose.”

Dr. Eades continues. If “you’re following a low-carb diet…the protein you eat is converted to glucose….If you keep the carbs low enough so that the liver still has to make some sugar, then you will be in fat-burning mode….How low is low enough? Well, when the ketosis process is humming along nicely and the brain and other tissues have converted to ketones for fuel, the requirement for glucose drops to about 120-130 gm per day. If you keep your carbs below that at, say, 60 grams per day, you’re liver will have to produce at least 60-70 grams of glucose to make up the deficit, so you will generate ketones that entire time.”

Boxed and processed foods are bad.

You're fruit and veggies better be coming off the tree/out of the ground/off the bush, because otherwise they are "bad" since they typically come in some sort of container.

I love carbs, will eat a lot of carbs, and keep living my life.

I am currently on a low carb diet. I have PCOS and my doctor told me that because my body stores all of my food as fat rather than using it for energy it causes my reproductive system to not work properly, my blood sugar to drop and for me to get shaky. I found this out the hard way when I had surgery and my body was trying so hard to heal that I was shaking 10 minutes after I just ate. It was scary. I decided to go low carb while dieting to see if I could fix my body's insulin resistance and then gradually introduce whole wheats and grains into my diet when it did. I know that it seems like nonsense but really it's important for me. When regularly dieting I did not lose weight and I felt miserable. Now I have already lost 9 lbs and it's only been 2 weeks. My mom was just diagnosed with diabetes which came as a shock because she never eats. Now I have to make sure that I'm not going that same route. I love cake, so this is hard for me. But I'm making it work, and I'll have cake again someday. If only to splurge once in a great while. I also love bread, pasta and the like. Mmm. But I know that if I want to be healthy I'm going to have to put those things on hold for a while.

Carbs might be your best friend, but they aren't everyone's.

I thrive on low carb/high fat. My body feels better, I have plenty of energy, my skin looks incredible, I've not had such much as a cold in the nearly 10 years since I made it my primary form of eating (and not even sticking 100% to it for chunks of time), and I always lose on it, always, without counting a single calorie. It's taken me a long time to find balance with it though, to be able to de-villainize carbs and eat a primary low carb life while indulging in sweets from time to time. I however only occasionally eat bread, or cereal, or pasta, etc, and I don't miss those things at all and I don't crave them. Sweets are my only nutritional achilles heel, and low carb goes a long way toward killing those cravings.

I do not feel good eating high carb. Not even tons of healthy carbs like a high volume of fruits or supposedly healthy "whole grains". Even though I've kept perfect blood sugar, carbs make me feel sluggish. I have to meticulously count calories while high carbing and eat well below even my BMR in order to move the scale in any considerable direction. High carb left me hungry, while low carb (and IFing) have helped give me damn near unreal control over appetite and hunger.

I think people who have no issue at all with higher carb eating, and feel good eating that way, are left scratching their heads because they can't fathom that other people's bodies might be just a little different than theirs are. But those of us who thrive on lower carb lifestyles really aren't going to dive head long into cereal and pasta just because it makes YOU feel better and you can't see beyond your own experience.

All people should do what's best for them, period.

I eat all my carbs as veggies, fruits, brown rice(small portions), sweet potatoes ( small portions), quinoa(small portions) and nuts. I am a diabetic and I chose not to eat breads, potatoes(white), white rice and pasta. I eat 30 carbs approx per meal and 15 carbs per snack. I find if I eat bread or crackers or anything like that, soon I am eating cake and more bread and so on and so forth. If I eat all that stuff my blood sugar is very high and I get so hungry that I can't stop myself. If I eat veggie carbs, protein, and good fats, I stay full longer and don't crave sweets. I do eat low GI fruits. If you can eats all those type of carbs and still lose more power to you. I'm more interested in blood sugar control and weight loss.

it's complete foolishness if you workout with any kind of intensity though...no glycogen stores = no energy to kill it while training.

The first, and last, time I succeeded at being a runner it was when I first started low carb/high fat felt great. My earlier efforts to do so on a higher carb/low fat program proved a huge failure. I do up to 45 miles of power/speed walking a week, sometimes in 10-11 mile increments, and can add in sprints with no problem on low carb. I can lift heavy on low carb. This simply is untrue for all.

Your body adapts. The BEGINNING of a low carb transition can be terrible. And many people never make it through the transition so they equate the symptoms, and the temporary weakness, as an indication of how it will always be. But there are people who do make it past and perform beautifully on a low carb way of eating. All of us aren't walking around weak, tired, and in need of coffee to stay alert and push hard on a workout.

You may find this interesting

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2013/03/13/2013-nsca-personal-trainers-conference-looking-back-at-my-debate-with-dr-jeff-volek/

there is no debate. what i said was factually correct. it may not be what the low-carbers want to hear, but it's factually correct.

Can't beat an open mind. What is your definition of "fad" then ? I'm assuming it's not time related as Atkins published his book about 1970 and Banting's pamphlet was more than a century ago.

Low carb has been around since the late 60s. Since you are so uninformed, you shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about. It is not a fad diet. Now the diet you are recommending is by your standards a new fad diet because it hasn't been around as long as low carb. Take a look at past food pyramids.

And for the person who thought she burned 1600 calories of protein, that is also incorrect. Excess protein is converted to glycogen and then burned. If you eat more protein at a meal than the body has an immediate need for, it is stored but not as protein.

I think we all need to get to know our own bodies and figure out how they function best. For me it's low carb. We should never judge someone's weight loss efforts based on ours. If you are going to make comments, be informed not just shooting out a bunch of boloney without facts to back it up.

The problem seems to be (re: fad diets) that when humans believe in something (or seriously want to) they don't like being told, in any way shape or form, that they may not be right. Fads of all kinds tend to be this way.

Furthermore, most 'low carbers' eat more carbs then they realize and/or have problems related to too little dietary fiber as I posted above.

Then there are the 'paleo' dieters who seem to ignore that most Paleo people were rife with parasites which had the benifitical effect of consuming plaque while causing all sorts of other issues and most often starved for periods of time because getting a lot of protein was very difficult. During those periods of starvation they ate CARBS! In fact, they generally ate more carbs then not but they gathered them. It wasn't until the Human race started farming grains that the numbers exploded which is a clear indication o success. I might also add that humans began to live longer then also.

Sure, you can eat low carbs and you can diet on protein (I'm not saying you can't) but there are plenty of examples of Atkins diets failing (heck Atkins himself died of heart disease/heart attack if I remember correctly).

I suggest watching the Movie 'Hungry For Change' and perhaps 'Forks Over Knives' (I'm not an advocate of veganism but I believe they make many good points) as well as 'Fat Sick and Nearly Dead' and perhaps you'll understand.

Admittedly though, my carb intake while high, is lower then I thought it was and I'm most often hitting 40/30/30 ratio then not but I don't consider that remotely low carb since carbs are the largest portion of my daily caloric intake.