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So I don't eat bread, crisps, potatoes, pasta or rice etc. (Most of the time 🙂 )
But started tracking my food with an app turns out even avoiding all of the above I'm still consistently 40-50% carbs per day.
So is that low carb or am I getting it wrong?
Lower than suggested, but not that low it seems.
Post up what you were eating, we'll tell you where the carbs are.
really low intake of carbs. Thats still too much to have an effect on fat metablism
Carbs seem to be in Veg, (Carrots, Squash, Peppers), Milk (150-200ml a day semi), Quinoa, Salad etc
Nothing bad, just there.
Quinoa is starch based, some root veg is. Peppers are sugary.
Depends what you want to achieve - that stuff should be low GI, but there's low GI and even lower GI depending on what you're doing.
Low GI isn't necessarily particularly low carb, and they do different things.
No 1 reason, eat better / healthier, lose a bit, etc.
Was just curious as even on a good day avoiding all the obvious Carbs were still consistently the biggest group.
Surely it's all Paleo now, low Carb was so 2010...
Meat lots of meat.
Veg: Green Leafy veg, mushrooms, mushrooms, salads from 'above ground veg', cauliflower, broccoli
Other: eggs, cream, butter, nuts, protein shakes
Meals: Eggs in the morning, with some bacon. Have a protein shake
Lunch, leafy salad, with mackerel fillets
Dinner: Miso broth, with tons of mushrooms, a bit of chicken and some nori sheets and kale.
Snacks: nuts, jerky/biltong etc
For me that looks like the food that I would choose to have no matter what they were made up of, might toss in a bit of steak to some of the meals though.
Getting proper low carb takes discipline, you either need to be one of those people who don't really like carbs in which case it's easy, or like the ladies in my house you love carbs so will find it much harder.
For me it's either a do your best (as you have done, cut out the processed and stay healthy). Or go all out and just eat protein and fat and become religious about it.
[i]Carbs seem to be in Veg,[/i]
Not a lot, only about 4grams in a big pile of carrots.
No 1 reason, eat better / healthier, lose a bit, etc.
Then you're fine with that lot. For normal everyday life and riding you still want carbs, just keep the GI low.
So what % carbs/fat/protein is really low carb?
It's normally measured as a total carb intake, the guidelines I have seen are:. 25-50g per day, proper low carb to loose weight. 50-100g per day, sustainable low carb to keep weight off and loose slowly.
But there is no hard and fast rule.
Unless it's cake, cake should always be defined as providing more joy than calories/fat/carbs, so is always allowed - thinking is less widespread on this for some reason
Peppers are sugary.
Not really. <5% carb.
Quinoa is high about 60%.
Are you avoiding cereals? They are some of the worst. Corn Flakes are something like 80%.
It's quite easy to get down to less 10% from carbs.
Your body is a machine and needs fuel... don't neglect this important fact. Eat healthily and eat less fat plus increase cardio exercise rather than try and achieve numbers that relate to food content.
Your body is a machine and needs fuel... don't neglect this important fact
Of course, those seeking to lose weight would rather it used the fuel it already has sat around its midriff...
Eat healthily
eat less fat plus increase cardio exercise
not sure this logic follows modern advice.
Your body is a machine and needs fuel... don't neglect this important fact. Eat healthily and eat less fat
? Fat is fuel.
You've got carbs, fat and protein. Food is made up of combinations of all three.
Of course, you can further sub divide those primary groups, but fundamentally. You're stuck with the three, be it complex or simple starch or sugars (of which there are many) it's all still carbs.
I hate the "body is a machine" concept. It's not. We don't "burn" fuel. Your body turns what you eat into other things that it needs. The acceptable band of inputs is vast. There is no diet that is going to make you super human but there are plenty of things out there which if consumed in big enough quantities aren't not going to do you much good.
Health and wellbeing is about your whole lifestyle over the long run.
It's not as simple as "red wine stops you getting cancer".
Sustainable lifestyle changes beat calorie counting in my opinion.
body turns glucose and fats (protein too but you don't want that to happen) into ATP. hydrolysis of ATP is what powers cellular processes. without ATP we die.
glasgowdan - MemberYour body is a machine
Why thankyou, yours is a nice too 😯
It's a machine, but no-one knows how it actually works, and every example is slightly different.
[i] molgrips - Member
Post up what you were eating, we'll tell you where the carbs are. [/i]
Still waiting for OP to post list of typical foods they eat.
🙂
[i] wrecker - Member
? Fat is fuel. [/i]
Spot on.
[i] molgrips - Member
It's a machine, but no-one knows how it actually works, and every example is slightly different. [/i]
Isn't that the performance of each individual machine and any part therein may differ, in comparison to any other machine, but that those machines are made to the same template?
Anyway yes, it's a very complicated "machine" and it has the ability to provide some very counter intuitive results, depending on your PoV.
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[i] Scienceofficer - Member
You've got carbs, fat and protein. Food is made up of combinations of all three.[/i]
If you don't mind me saying so, that's quite inaccurate and very likely to confuse some folk.
One "[i]rule of thumb[/i]" I've noted is that nature doesn't combine fat with sugar, AFAIK, only Man has cracked that one.
But yes, there are 3 "Macros" Fat, Protein, Carbohydrates.
Typically, one will find protein and fat combined (animals) and carbohydrates usually one their own, ie, fruit, veg.
Man has screwed with this stuff and how deleterious such foods are for Human consumption is another subject, imo.
🙂
Why cut out fat? Some fat is very good for you and generally beneficial. The 'low fat diet' theory is in the process of being debunked.
Still waiting for OP to post list of typical foods they eat.
Harribo, Biscuits, Mars Bars.. you know usually stuff.
I'm not necessarily following a strict "Low Carb" diet, I was just suprised that even though I've removed loads of the obvious white carbs that carbs still made up the bulk of what I eat.
Check out durianrider on youtube...
Going genuinely low carb (ie less than 50-80g per day) isn't easy (the obvious carbs are easier to skip but to go the whole hog you will need to avoid milk, fruits, starchy (root) vegetables as well . You will lose weight but a lot of it will initially be water, you will also struggle with quality intensity work in terms of any training you might be doing.Avoiding processed carbs (and processed food in general ) and focusing on lean proteins with enough good carb to fuel your rides is a pretty good long term strategy and most importantly, sustainable