Let’s have a chat about carbs and weight!
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You do NOT need to cut Carbohydrates out of your life! You are only doing that because you read some shite somewhere about Fat gain, Insulin spiking, Glycaemic Index or Loading or ‘benefits’ of fucking Keto!
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Carbs taste great as does Fat and Protein, so eat them all! Your body likes Carbs, likes primarily to use them for fuel, so do not deprive it of what it wants!
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The classic nonsense you hear from individuals on a weight loss journey, is they cut carbs and suddenly drop a fuck tonne of weight!
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Well no shit! You just cut a huge amount of calories out of your diet from a macro-nutrient you were probably over-eating in the first place!
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IT IS A CALORIE DEFICIT THAT CAUSES WEIGHT LOSS, NOT THE EXCLUSION OF CARBS.
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Stop being a dick!
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You need to create a calorie deficit to lose weight, not cut out an entire food group as if that’s what makes the difference! IT DOESN’T.
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So be sensible, ask yourself honestly; ‘Do I need to cut an entire food group, or would it be more sensible to maybe ease back on the 2 pieces of canteen cake, because Fran in accounts is leaving, 2 bottles of wine on a Friday and overdoing the roast on Sunday!’
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It really isn’t rocket science. Look at your habits and be brutally honest with yourself. You don’t need to cut anything out, but you do need to eat some things a little bit less and move a little bit more.
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One meal isn’t going to make or break your progress, nor is a few glasses of vino, but over-eating consistently will. Which is where calorie borrowing comes into play to help you stay consistent with your deficit.
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That is taking calories from a few other days in the week to compensate for going over if you are eating out or having a social at the weekend.
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So eat carbs, eat fat, eat protein, just do it in the amount that brings about a calorie deficit in line with a high level of general movement and bingo! Fat loss will occur and you can still eat a snickers! We can worry about the nutritional density once that has started. One step at a time people!
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Then we get to the monitoring! And our obsession with the bloody scales!
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If you insist on using the scales, expect your weight to fluctuate! It’s perfectly normal, you are looking to identify trend over time. And I’m sorry if this offends those in need of instant gratification, but fat loss takes time, if anyone else tells you otherwise they are talking Arse gravy!
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If you want instant gratification, I’m sure there is something else you can be doing when you’ve locked yourself in the bathroom for 5 minutes! And you know it’s only gonna take 3!
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I ate 3800kcals yesterday. 1350kcals of which were carbs, that’s 338 grams. It included a Penguin, Hobnobs, Bread, Veg, Pasta… lovely! Furthermore, my weight dropped nearly 1kg. The day before (Monday) I gained nearly 1kg! And so what! You can see how my weight has fluctuated daily over the last 3 months, even with a fairly stable calorie intake.
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This is because of many different factors but the overall trend is what you are looking for, whether that is achieving your goals and if your like what you see in the mirror!
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Mine shows I am pretty much maintaining my weight, as I want to. And no, I’m not on some special intake, taking special supps (apart from Omega oils, Creatine, Whey and Multi-vit) or anything else. I like a beer, ice cream and a daily Snickers. I just keep my intake within a level I set so it averages out over the week, move in accordance to that level and eat 1.5-2g/kg/bw in protein.
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Exactly the same as I recommend to you!
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