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Originally Posted by atmasters
Hi I have been in maintaines now for a few months. I have just started again logging my food into fitday just to see were I am at with the carbs. Today it is lunch and I am at 100 grams. I had some spicy chicken fingers that had some bread crumbs on them. Other than that I had eggs and some cucumber with some blue cheese dressing. I am fairly active and try to go to the gym 3-4 times a week. I will be going tonight and I give it all I can. I am almost sick I work out so hard on cardio and weight training. For dinner I am going to have a couple hamburger patties so 100 grams is most likely going to be all the carbs I am going to eat.
Is this an ok amount for a guy 29 years old and 230 pounds that is fairly active????
(I do now we are all different but if 100-200 grams of carbs are good for a lot of people then it will put my mind at ease a little.)
Most days I am around 23-30 grams
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In my opinion carb grams are far less important than percentage of energy consumed from carbohydrate... assuming, of course, the diet is not hypocaloric.
What percentage of your energy needs is 400 calories of sugar? Because, for me, that would be like over 25% carbs, which is too high for a regular basis eating. If you are eating more like 2500 cals, then 400 cals of carb is more like 16% carb, which is actually
lower than I eat on average. So raw gram numbers aren't as important as how much that carb energy
means to you.
Also, that you are so high carb and it's only lunch... implies to me some less than stellar choices were made. You are no longer trying to lose weight, so it's fine to eat higher carb once in awhile (in fact, it's how you're supposed to maintain). But if you want to know if those kinds of choices are too high for
regular choices every meal then I would say it's probably a safe bet it is.
I look at it like this. If you are eating
radically different in maintenance than you were losing weight, the odds are good that you might be eating improperly to maintain your loss. If you are still eating very similar to your weight loss diet with only slight modifications (in quantities and rules and stuff), then you don't need to worry.
Try not to sweat maintenance. It's really a lot easier than it feels at first. It's basically exactly like the other phases, only a bit less strict, less absolutes, more choices. It sounds like you're trying to make it really different, and this is why you're having trouble. I made that mistake too. I tried to eat higher carb lower fat, regretted that right quick and went back. Everything is great now
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