Carbs or Fat.

blakemcgee56
blakemcgee56 Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I am new to the Olympic lifting lifestyle. Tweaking with Macros to see how it affects me. I have 10lbs to lose.

Should I focus more on cutting carbs or cutting fats?

How about effects of each? Ive got to maintain strength and gain strength while cutting 10lbs.

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Personally, my lifts and everything else suffers when I go too low on carbs...but I also don't do low fat in a cut either...I just try to balance everything out and hit my calories without jacking around with my performance too much.

    It's likely you will lose some performance in a cut regardless...
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    i think they are best accentuated together

    i mean look at bread and butter. thats a dank *kitten* combo
    potato + sour cream = dank *kitten* combo
    pasta + presto = dank *kitten* combo
  • blakemcgee56
    blakemcgee56 Posts: 4 Member
    well, In loosing the weight I am shooting everyday for 2400 calories. So im not cutting the calories much, just cleaning up the diet considerably. As my form gets better, I should get to the end of my Newb gains pretty quick
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    There's no need to cut either.

    Create a macro balance that personally suits your needs.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    edited October 2016
    Should I focus more on cutting carbs or cutting fats?
    Depends on your current diet and how it affects your adherence etc....

    Hitting minimum goals for protein and fat is my only requirement from macro tracking.

    Carbs work very well for me in terms of feeling full, enjoyment and also exercise performance - your experience may well be different, that's where experimentation helps as there isn't a once size fits all approach.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Until you get to extremes I don't think there's going to be any noticeable difference on performance outcomes.

    There may be substantial differences on diet adherence and so I'd primarily focus on that, once again provided that you're not taking an extreme approach where you're trying to bring either of those macronutrients to absurdly low levels.
  • courtneyfabulous
    courtneyfabulous Posts: 1,863 Member
    Rage_Phish wrote: »
    i think they are best accentuated together

    i mean look at bread and butter. thats a dank *kitten* combo
    potato + sour cream = dank *kitten* combo
    pasta + presto = dank *kitten* combo

    Haha I love how myfitnesspal auto replaces any swear word with kitten!!!

    Anyways yeah you want a balance. Generally though you figure out your necessary quantity of protein and fat which are both a certain percentage of grams to your body weight, figure out your calorie goal, and carbs make up the remainder of those calories.

  • blakemcgee56
    blakemcgee56 Posts: 4 Member
    So far Im down to 214.6 as of this morning. Keeping with 207/83/207 and ahering pretty easily. Running a 5K with the wife this evening and I havent done cardio in WEEKS. Should be murder. But i brought along the Naked Juice and a touch of extra rice for some quick carbs. Anxious to see how this one turns out.
  • floren311
    floren311 Posts: 7 Member
    I think it all depends on what u want to accomplish. I d rather reduce carbs more than fat and it s worked pretty well for me. However, carbs are needed for training and if u do so, you can still have a balance intake of both. Preferably, you might wanna consume complex carbs and not simple ones since these last ones don t have much nutritional content :)

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