I need help in learning the good carbs and the bad carbs can you help me? I need to lose 218 pounds

OP, don't make this more complicated than it needs to be when starting out. Weight loss comes down to eating less calories than you burn. So put your stats into MFP, choose your goal for lbs to lose per week, and start weighing and logging your food. Be honest and accurate, it's the only way you will learn over time what foods to eat that will fill you up and fit under your calorie goal.

If you don't have one, get a food scale, it will really help.

I would ask your doctor what kinds of exercise you should be doing.

Take care of yourself and good luck!

Eating less carbs is a good way to go. When your body doesn't have the carbs to burn it starts to use the fat for energy and you start to lose weight. Bad carbs are the ones with all the refined sugars. Cakes, cookies, white pasta and breads, etc. Eat vege's and lean protein. Limit fruit but be sure to still have it in your diet. Berries and avocados are great. Good luck with everything.

OP, again, don't overcomplicate this. There is nothing wrong with pasta or fruit or any other carb unless you overeat it, and you don't need to detox from anything, your liver does that for you every day. If your doctor suggested low carb due to a medical condition, then you need to find out from them what they want you to avoid. Plenty of people here have lost a lot of weight eating "bad" carbs. You just have to find what works for you!

You may want to do what I'm doing, I think it's truly the easiest way to get rid of the extra weight. I've purchased 3 books via amazon.com. All three focus on 300 and 400 calorie meals. Just type in 300 or 400 calorie meals cookbook. Read the reviews and buy a couple. This way you're choosing a good variety of meals you will enjoy and learn how to make eating healthy a lifestyle. I have 80 lbs. to rid my body, so I understand how important this is to you. Also on the page where you log in your food intake, at the bottom is a place to type in your 'food notes'. I use this to write an encouraging message from "My Future Self". Today I wrote: You need to eat more food to get to your 1200 calories. You're doing really good. Remember this is a process. Focus on your food intake and getting your pics, text and videos ready for your website. Love you, YFS

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There's no reason to fear carbs unless you have a medical condition that warrants you to restrict carbs. Otherwise, eat at a deficit and you'll lose weight . cico .

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Unless you have medical issues....it's not about "good" carbs or "bad" carbs. I don't limit carbs because that's not a lifestyle change for me. Taking the weight off is step 1.........keeping it off will require changes for life.

You will find that some foods are more filling than others. You will find that less processed foods often contain more nutrients (naturally).....example: whole wheat bread has more fiber and protein than most white breads. That doesn't make white bread a "bad" carb. But when you are eating fewer calories, it helps if you "get the most bang for your calorie buck."

It's really just calories in vs. calories out. Eat less & move more.

To move more...google seated or chair exercise. There are lots of workouts on YouTube.

Totally agree about the difference being that some carbs fill you up more than others. I can easily eat half a days calories in regular, white pasta or bread. As a result, I try to limit these, as other carbs are way more satiating, but I refuse to say I will never eat them again.

Log everything you eat and look at the patterns. Which foods make you feel good and full and try to eat more of those and less of the other stuff. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I love eating a vegetable korma that is mostly carbs, but it is SO filling that every single calorie (about 275) is well worth it.

I hope your doctor has given you some help like a referral to a registered dietician.

One thing a good dietician would do with you is figure out how you have been eating and what tends to have led to you overeating -- are you not feeling full, snacking at certain times, eating lots of hidden calories (in that you didn't realize how much you were getting from certain things). Then you'd come up with strategies to improve your eating habits, often somewhat gradually, by making specific changes that you can monitor and see if they work for you.

I did something like this for myself when I started and highly recommend it -- I went through my eating habits and diet as honestly as I could and figured out where the excess calories were coming from (since I was someone who would have said I ate pretty well and not all that much, yet I clearly was eating way too much).

Once I did this, there were some pretty simple and not difficult changes I could make that cut out LOTS of calories, most of which were not missed.

I also was able to come up with strategies to control my eating -- for example, I realized that I'm someone who tends to feel hungry when I'm used to eating and who will eat too much if I snack all day, so I simply decided I would eat only at meals. (Well, most of the time.)

At this stage, simply eating less will make a huge difference, but many do find it easier to do that or more motivating if you focus on nutrition (and I think nutrition is important), so I think it's great you want to learn about that. A couple of easy to follow links that I think are great are:
(1) http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/science-compared-every-diet-and-the-winner-is-real-food/284595/ (I don't like the "real food" thing here, but I generally agree with the advice.)

and (2) http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/ (the whole site is good).

I suggest worrying less about cutting certain foods and more learning to stay within a calorie target daily. MFP can help with this when you get used to logging all your food.

For exercise when disabled and significantly overweight, water exercises are good. That way your joints aren't stressed so much from gravity.

Some great carbs:

http://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/whole-grains-a-to-z

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetables

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_root_vegetables

Some fool listed carrots as a "bad carb" above. On the contrary, carrots are full of fiber and carotene, a source of vitamin A.

The only reason I can think that your Dr. talked to you about good/bad carbs is if you are diabetic or dangerously pre-diabetic, there are good aka slow carbs or bad aka fast carbs.

List of slow-burning carbs- http://www.livestrong.com/article/331564-list-of-slow-burning-carbs/
Includes whole-wheat bread, brown rice
Kidney beans
All kinds of vegetables
Yogurt (greek yogurt for protein will help you digest)
Grapes, strawberries, cherries, apples

Pair your carbs with proteins!

List of Foods with Fast carbs http://www.livestrong.com/article/31545-list-foods-fast-carbs/
Refined white bread, white rice
Cake, cookies

Typically, if you have GD, diabetes, or possibly borderline, the doctor will want you to stay within a certain range for carbs per meal/snacks. I know when I had GD, the nutritionist advised against milk or juice in the morning as that could spike your blood sugar. I could have milk later though as long as it was within the carb range for the meal/ snack.