Carbohydrates: Gaining Weight

DoublePisces019 wrote: »

vollkornbloedchen wrote: »

DoublePisces019 wrote: »

vollkornbloedchen wrote: »

Just to make sure:
Are you trying to lose, or to gain weight?

To gain weight.

Next question(s):
Is it a "general" gain you are trying to achieve, or is there a "body-shaping" program behind it?
How did you determine the macro percentage?
To see what, if anything at all, goes wrong, could you set your food- and workout- diary to public (temporarily only!)?

I still didn’t started with working out. I’m very skinny, with fast metabolism, currently 45 kg. I can’t make a muscle from the bones, you know what I mean, so I wanna reach 50 kg and than start working out. I need some more weight to be able to work with it.
As I said, I’m using MFP just few days now and I don’t have a lot of knowledge about the calories, carbs, fat, protein, etc. So for now I’ll just stick with it, and later maybe switch or something.

Now to go back to my question: would Carbs do anything bad if I eat more than “I should” while trying to gain weight?
Is it bad that I have -+ 100 gramm Carbs more?

Having read a few more of your posts, my advice now would be to stop tracking and just eat more if you want to gain weight. There is no such thing as a fast metabolism. The metabolism is an adaptive and reactive system. If you feed your body more than it needs for TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) your metabolism will generally respond by encouraging you to move more involuntarily, such as twitching and fidgeting. Once that doesn't work it'll start to store excess energy as fat. If you feed you body less than it needs for TDEE your metabolism will respond by encouraging you to move less to conserve energy. Once that stops working it will draw energy from fat stores. All of this takes time to happen, several days usually, but once it does happen it can be beneficial to change your energy balance again to keep the metabolism flexible.

Your macros look fine and calorie wise amount to 2230 (Protein and Carbs = 4 calories per gram, Fats = 9 calories per gram). For someone of your weight, height and activity level that seems a lot so you should be gaining weight. If you're not, then guess what, you need to eat more!

Also remember that weight gain, just like weight loss, is a marathon not a sprint. You want to be gaining around 1% of your bodyweight every week. Some will gain more, some less, but if you're also doing some resistance training then you will also build muscle, albeit slowly as mentioned above.

Finally, remember to do what works for you, and that might take you a while to figure out, but you'll learn such a lot about your body on the way.

At this point your goal should be to gain weight. You don't have to hit your macros exactly, and nothing wrong with carbs at all especially if they are helping you reach your calorie goal. Also while nutrition is important, nothing wrong with some treats to get you to your goal at the end of the day. Demonizing foods at this point as an above poster mentioned is not going to be helpful to someone in your position.