If I'm trying to keep body fat low and build muscle, how many grams of carbs should I be eating a day? Also are the carbs from fruits the same as carbs from breads?
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Thread: How many grams of carbs?!
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04-22-2011, 03:23 PM #1
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04-22-2011, 03:44 PM #2
Don't worry about keeping bodyfat low. The more you nitpick things that harder it'll be to gain muscle. To prevent becoming fat though, just don't eat simple sugars, trans fatty foods, and other processed crap. Try to eat as healthy as possible. I like to try getting in 2g of carbs per lb of bodyweight, but this will become reality in the summer when I can work and buy more of my own food.
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04-22-2011, 03:47 PM #3
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04-22-2011, 04:02 PM #8
Carbs are abundant in 95% of foods. Type 1 diabetic, and I follow that **** as if my life depends on it (srs). Try eating more complex carbs, brown+ whole wheat rice+breads>All white. White stuff is all sugars, no fibres. You want lots of fibres, which you get from the browns. Make sure you are taking in fat still, just the good fats. Protein+fats keep a low glycemic index and help your insulin levels stay even and not spike, which is good if you are tryin to gain muscle, don't want the cells to be taking excess ****. Luck bro!
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04-22-2011, 04:05 PM #11
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the 40/40/20 ratio is not optimal for health and wellbeing. carbs from grains and starching foods like breads, pasta, rice, potato do more harm to you than good in the long run. They make you vunerable to lifestyle diseases, promote inflammation and have ant-nutrients.
eat more fats and protein.
since agriculture started about 10,000 years ago people have been getting sicker and fatter.
the nutrition profile of brown rice, whole wheat bread and pasta is sh*t when compared to vegetables and fruit.
theres more fibre and vitamins + minerals in fruit and veggies than there will ever be in starchy carbs.Powerlifter at PTC Performance Training Centre
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04-22-2011, 04:07 PM #12
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04-22-2011, 04:10 PM #13
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04-22-2011, 04:58 PM #15
Brown rice = complex = body burns more calories trying to break it down
Fruits = simple = good for breakfasts', pre and post workout.
You're comparing fructose (a monosaccharide ) to a polysaccharide, although I understand fruits and veggies usually have more minerals, vitamins, etc.
Also to answer OP's question, if you really want to find an estimate for how many carbs / proteins / fats to consume, PM me or just look up how to find your maintenance calories, and from there, if you're cutting just lower your maintenance by 500 or so.
Edit: Didn't see you wrote you also want to build muscle while burning fat, which is very hard to do. To make things simple, building muscle results from eating more; calorie surplus. Burning fat results from eating less; calorie deficit. Other than that, just use some cell-tech, brah. You'll be a lean-mean-shredded-machine.Last edited by Jonglex; 04-22-2011 at 05:04 PM.
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04-22-2011, 05:08 PM #16
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04-22-2011, 05:39 PM #23
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you're right Jonglex.
It is much easy to get a lot of calories from potatoes, breads, pastas, rice, than it is from vegetables.
Lets take that further. Its really really easy to consume a lot of calories from ice cream, or even plain maltodextrin, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup.
You are a smart person Jonglex. how about we eat more healthy foods instead of choosing that might not be optimal for our health and wellbeing. More meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, oils, fats.Powerlifter at PTC Performance Training Centre
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04-22-2011, 05:47 PM #24
2 kinds of carbs
Low glycemic n high glycemic
low glycemic carbs burn up fast n help ur muscles uptake protein after a workout n give you energy for a workout so you eat them right b4 n right after a workout..these would be bread like white bread or a bagle or a orange or banana ur body turns them into sugar,glycogen,which it burns for energy...if you eat too many of these at other times ur body will store them as fat..
High glycemic carbs are oatmeal,vegetables,salads,100% whole wheat products and beans..things that dont digest so fast n burn slowly during the course of the day to give you sustasined energy that can be stored as glycogen in ur muscles
the more carbs you eat the more calories you take in and the more calories you take in the bigger you will get..so to cut you need 10 calories per lb of ur body weight n to bulk you need 20 so to stay the same weight about 15 calories per lb is good..you need 1.5 g or protein per lb no matter what..so ur carbs will be determined by how many non protein calories you eat which includes good fats like peanut b utter that are very important for ur body to make testosterone ..
So the calories from carbs will determine if you lose.stay the same or gain weight..KEN LECLAIR
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