Weight loss

To lose weight, it doesn't matter whether your calories come from carbs, protein, or other macros; it only matters how many calories you eat. Don't complicate things too much. Try to stick close to your calorie goal and see how it goes. Experiment with the food you eat to find which foods help you feel full and which make you want to eat more. Some people are satisfied with more protein, some with more carbohydrates.

Don't worry if you have an occasional slip. It won't derail the process unless you let it. If you eat too much at one meal, work to make the next one better. One sucker will add a few calories to your daily total, but it won't be enough to make you gain weight, so let it go.

Catastrophizing over one sucker? Please don't. They're not magically evil.

During weight loss, if I felt a little draggy before a planned workout, I'd sometimes eat a sucker, because (simplistically speaking) sugar is quick energy. As long as I accounted for those calories, I lost weight fine. In fact, in some ways the sucker may've helped me lose weight by helping me get a more energetic workout, possibly even minimize post-exercise fatigue-triggered appetite.

It's calories that matter directly for weight loss. Nutrition is about health, energy level, fat vs. lean weight, and that sort of thing. That said, food choices can indirectly affect weight loss through energy level or appetite.

Nutrition wise, it's not a problem to be over on carbs, especially if those carbs are coming from nutrient dense foods.

Nutritionally, what can be a problem is being persistently low on protein or fats, which contain essential nutrients our bodies can't manufacture out of other intake, so we need to eat some.

If within calories, but persistently high on carbs, you could be persistently under on one or both of those. If that's the case, I'd suggest focusing on bringing those up a bit within calories, which will automatically reduce the carb intake. (At least I always find it easier to focus on getting useful things into my eating, rather than focusing on getting supposedly bad things out.)

Also focus on making changes to your daily routine habits, the things on repeat day in and day out. That has much more impact on long-term results than worrying about the rare exception. Seek habits that are relatively easier for you to stick with, rather than trying to lose weight fast or be utterly perfect in food choices.

To manage weight, we don't need to be all perfect every single day, anyway: Pretty good on average over a few days is fine.

I'm wondering what you mean by struggling with measuring. Can you say more? Maybe we can help. My first thought is that if you're actually measuring (cups/spoons), you would find it quicker/easier to use a food scale once you knew the tips for doing that. It's way less fussy, IMO - a time saver.

Best wishes!

linornegri3966 wrote: »

Carbs are making your insulin high , while your insulin is high you are not burning fat.
Still you should eat carbs anyways but i always eat my carbs last what do i mean by that ?
I eat first fiber then protein and at the end my carbs always before I eat something sweet I try for it to be close to my protein meal so my insulin will stay low
Also you can do 10 min walk after you eat sweet / carbs so your blood sugar stay low
and it really helps with burning fat hope it helped !
Sorry about my broken English anyways.

If a person is in a calorie deficit overall on average, then they're burning fat at some point to make up the difference. It doesn't really matter if it happens in the moment, or later. If a person has a relevant health condition (such as diabetes or insulin resistance) then those kinds of carb timing tactics may be helpful or even necessary. Without those conditions in the picture - and maybe even with them, within reason - weight loss can happen without worrying about carb timing, as long as appetite is manageable.