For the average healthy adult, the USDA recommends that about 50 % of your total daily calorie
intake come from carbs.
Not exact matches
The basis of these diets
come from limited
intake of
carbs and supplementing them with proteins and fats.
They had each participant lose about 10 to 15 percent of their body weight, then put them on three different maintenance diets — low - fat (with about 60 percent of daily calories
coming from carbs); low - glycemic - index (with about 40 percent of daily
intake from carbs that cause only moderate spikes in blood sugar, such as legumes and vegetables); and a very low -
carb approach, with just 10 percent of daily calories
from carbs.
Like the Atkins Diet, a ketogenic diet is very low in
carbs, however, the difference is that — in a ketogenic diet — the majority of calories
come from fat and protein
intake is lower.
The opposite of these foods are known as complex
carbs (slower digestion), and they are the type of
carb that you want most, if not all of your daily
carb intake to
come from.
The majority of my
carb intake comes from rice (yes, even white rice), white potatoes and plenty of fruits and vegetables.
That's a 60 calorie «advantage» over what he would get if that 300 calorie
intake were to instead
come from more efficiently metabolized
carbs or fat.
Week 1
intake: F 118g 60 %, C 21g 6 %, P 99g 26 % Week 2
intake: F 129g 72 %, C 18g 4 %, P 96g 24 % Week 3
intake: F 122g 73 %, C 21g 6 %, P 80g 21 % All the
carbs come from vegitables, no bread, very light exercise.
Since I was
coming from the low
carb side of the fence, the main effect the book had on my diet was to motivate me to increase my starch
intake (mainly
from rice).
With all this talk of «low»
carb diets being the best method for weight loss, made me stop and think about where the majority of carbohydrate
intake comes from.
I kept my
carb intake to about 20 grams which mainly
came from vegetables.
Theoretically the higher fibre should reduce the amount of absorption but again, if someone has IBS and as a result develops leaky gut syndrome, could some of that weight gain
come from the higher
carb intake?
My average
carb intake was 161 gm, but if you factor in all the fiber I was eating
from the beans and the bionic fiber which averaged 58 gm, my net
carb intake came out to around 103 gm, which is right smack dab in the middle of the 50 - 120 gm range I was shooting for.
This is the reason why Keto does not include calorie counting, but instead advises people to eat to satisfaction, which amazingly
comes from much less food than when
carb intake is substantial.
[I] f you are
coming to the diet
from a zero -
carb or very - low -
carb regimen, you can count on an immediate and substantial weight gain if you suddenly adopt the recommended
intake of «400
carb calories [100 grams] per day of starchy tubers, rice, fruit, and berries.»
Simply put, this rule states that if 80 - 90 % of your total food
intake is
coming from traditional «healthy» fitness foods (such as lean / high quality proteins, high fiber / minimally refined
carbs and healthy fats) then the remaining 10 - 20 % can
come from whatever foods you'd like as long as it fits into your overall daily calorie and macronutrient totals.
If you've experienced some weight gain and you're panicking, relax, this will be mostly water
from the higher
carb intake and will
come off in the next few days.
My confusion
comes from the percentage - if it is only percentage - I understand it is correlated and I should be fine and in ketosis increasing my
carb intake as eating / needing more calories?
When it
comes to
carbs, make sure that almost all of your carbohydrate
intake is
from higher fiber sources like vegetables, fruits, and high fiber unrefined grains.
At least 80 % of the calories in the recipes in this cookbook
come from healthy fats, which makes them ideal when you need to boost your fat
intake without going over your protein and
carb target.
At least 80 % of the calories in the recipes
come from fats, which makes them ideal when you need to boost your fat
intake without exceeding your protein and
carb target.
Having been an individual that was eating within that approximate range, I've seen firsthand what can
come from reducing that
carb percentage to less than 10 %, while also dramatically boosting my fat
intake.
I don't really have a nutritional plan as I
come from an Asian (pakistani / indian) family I do not know what food is being made, usually the spicy dishes with chicken and lamb Etc therefore it is hard for me to calculate calorie
intake, protein,
carbs, fats etc..
If the other end is
coming from the
carb or
intake area, it should be plugged into something.