Carbs Must Die? How to Eat Carbs and Still Look Awesome

It’s a Friday night, a typical night people party and having a great time. However, this Friday’s different; it’s your best friend’s birthday.

The guy that you hanged out with you in your neighbourhood while throwing mud balls at each other and discussing which girl has the better booty.

You guys are tight.

So it’s his big day, finally hitting 21 mark, he threw a party. The place reeks of cheap alcohol and some scantily clad teenage girls.

Five minutes later, the birthday song echoes throughout the hall way. A minute after it ends, your best friends walks pass you with his face smeared with cream as he heads for the wash room.  Some traditions never die.

Awhile later, an amazing looking girl walks up to you with a slice of cake. You stare at her for a moment; you realizeshe’s still holding the carb loaded cake offering it to you.

“Oh shit, this would ruin everything” you think, and you slowly shake your head in refusal. The girl walked away and you knew she was not happy  being stamped with rejection. You just blew any chance you had with her.

Though this might be an exaggerated scenario, the message rings true for most of us. We think that carbohydrates are evil and will definitely make us fat, so we say no to all of them, even at parties.

If you have a competition looming around the corner or you have a ton of weight to lose it’s best for you to shy away from that piece of cake. However, if you are so obsessive on our diet that you it’s hard to enjoy life, you are doing it wrong.

When it comes to food, carbs gets all the bashing and hate. It’s the evil food that everyone should avoid if they want to look good. This could not be further from the truth, it’s time for me to do carbs some justice and let you know how eating carbs can compliment your physiques goals.

First up, we need to know that 1g of carb contain 4 calories. So it doesn’t matter if you eat 100g of brown rice or 100g of donuts, in the end of the day you will have 400 calories in your body. There are no “clean“foods vs. “Dirty” foods here. However, there are carbs sources that keep you filed for longer periods of time, for me it’s sweet potatoes.

For you it could be oats, potatoes or even white rice. Everyone is pretty much different so what works for me might not work for you. When it comes to choosing a carb source, choose the one that you enjoy the most and the one that will keep you full the longest as well.

That’s pretty much all I have to say when it comes to eating carbs. Besides the obvious fact that amount of carbs you can eat is goal dependant; the rule above is how I handle carbs.

But in order to prevent this post from becoming shorter than Chuck Norris counting to infinity, I’ll continue to share my thoughts on eating carbs for your goals.

Gaining weight

You need to know that I hate counting calories. Besides finding it pretty impractical (for me), having sucked at math in high school is probably one of the reason why I hate counting. So yes, I approach my eating from a math free stand point.

So for those skinny dudes out there who wants to pack on some size to their frame, you shouldn’t even be asking me if I should cut down on my carbs. You should be eating like there is no tomorrow. After all, the reason why you are not gaining weight is because you are not eating enough!

However, not all of us want to turn into that fat blob of blubber. So my recommendation is to actually schedule your carb intake before and after your training. This is the time when carbs are more receptive to being stored in the muscles as compared to being stored as fat. This is call nutrient partitioning.

Keep your protein and vegetable intake high during the day, before your train eat a decent amount of carbs. Right after training, it’s time to flip on the switch and activate beast mode! This method works well for many skinny dudes looking to pack on some weight.

If you look in the mirror on see yourself getting lil smooth with those extra layers on you, cut out the carbs before training and consume them only after training.

Fat loss

Yes eating carbs and losing fat can be done simultaneously but things get little trickier here. Remember I told you about choosing the carb source that keeps you full the longest? This would your main choice of carbs.

Consumption of carbs will be limited to only your meal right after your training.

When it comes to fat loss, it is important to always keep protein and vegetables intake high. It will prevent your friends from hearing your stomach grumble every hour and will spare your precious muscle.

I’m sorry but you can activate beast mode this time around. Fat loss is an all out attack, so some sacrifices are needed. Limit yourself to roughly 100g-200g of carbs, I hate counting so an estimate would be a medium size sweet potato or 1.5 bowls of rice (I’m Asian, can’t live without rice).

This works well and its a dummy proof advice I give to most of my friends.

While tracking the amount exact of carbs might produce better results, I don’t think it’s worth the hassle and trouble.

Why Carbs?

So to put on weight we should eat carbs and to lose fat we should cut down on carbs, why not just completely cut carbs out from on diets?

First, to pack on weight with just protein is pretty damn tough since the chances of ballooning up your stomach is very high. Carbs are digested faster compared to protein which in return allows you to eat more since it doesn’t fill you up as much.

Yes, carbs are freaking awesome if you want to pack on some weight.

Now for people who want to lose fat,you don’t want to lose muscle mass. In fact, it is possible to gain muscle while losing fat. That is the reason why we consume our carbs post workout. After putting a heck lot of effort(I hope you do) into your training, muscle protein degradation occurs and to counter that we want to activate muscle protein synthesis.

A study shows that a post workout meal/shake consisting of carbs+protein is superior to a carb or protein only source. The carbs+protein is superior in terms of glycogen replenishment, limiting protein breakdown and increasing recovery after training.

That’s why post workout is the perfect time for you to have your carbs even if you want to lose fat.

Besides, who doesn’t want a satisfying meal after hard work?

Ice creams?

For those who are trying to gain weight and are finding it hard to get it from eating whole foods, feel free to eat ice cream whenever you please. Just don’t consume the entire Ben & Jerry’s production plant.

However, if that happens, and you look into the mirror the following day looking bloated, cut down on your carbs consumption for the day. This might help you look leaner the day after, but if it doesn’t don’t worry.

Just like dropping a coin in the sewer won’t make you poor, a day of feasting won’t make you fat.  Just make sure you don’t let it happen again.

It’s believe it’s best err on the side of cautiousness but I once ate 7 scoops of Green Tea Ice cream after 50 slices of Sashimi……

For those who are looking to lose fat, treat yourself once in awhile. You probably can afford an ice cream once a week or once a fortnight depending on the amount of fat you want to lose and the time frame you gave yourself.

That’s provided that you stick to the plan the entire week,then you can make the reward worth it. However do not forget that moderation is key.

Just remember that carbs won’t make you fat, too much of carbs will.Heck, too much of anything will make you fat. <——- Click To Tweet YO!

I’ve given a few suggestions for you eat carbs and look awesome without involving math. So by all means, go ahead and try them out. Do let me know if you face any troubles or would like any further help.

That’s it for today, I’m gonna go eat some white rice.

I hope that the ideas I’ve shared have provided some truth on eating carbs and still meeting your goals. If you have any questions please comment below. Oh, don’t forget to share this to spread the truth about eating carbs.

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