how many carb grams per day? - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

determined2succeed · 01-21-2007, 01:24 PM

Hi Ladies,

For those of you who are steadily losing, how many grams of carbs per day are you eating? I want to tweak my fitday.com nutrition goals and would like to know what a good number would be to aim for. Currently, I am averaging 136 grams of carbs per day according to fitday.com.

Just curious to know! Perhaps a percentage of fat v. protein vs. carbs would also help too. I want to jumpstart the loss a little bit an think tweaking my intake ratios will help. Thanks in advance!

Bobbolink · 01-21-2007, 06:50 PM

Hi!
I've lost 11.5 pounds and averaged 2 lbs. per week until last week where I only dropped 1.5. I just averaged out my last 7 days from Fitday and my carbs were 133 grams, about where yours are and the average for fat were 33 grams. I normally stay around 25-30 but sometimes eating almonds will spike it. I usually have 1 Tablespoon of Olive oil every night on my salad, that also spikes it. Both are good healthy oils that your body needs.

Glory87 · 01-21-2007, 07:27 PM

I really didn't concentrate on carbohydrates. I concentrated on protein (making sure I had at least 100 grams a day) and healthy fats (making sure that around 25% of my day's calories came from healthy fats). The carbohydrates just fell into place - around 200 grams a day. I love whole grains and other nutritionally powerful sources of carbohydrates (beans, fruit, quinoa, sweet potato, brown rice, whole grain bread, waffles, pita, tortillas) and are usually a part of all of my meals.

I usually try to imagine my plate divided into 4 equal sections. When I'm planning a meal, 1/2 of the plate should be vegetables, 1/4 of the plate should be carbohydrates and 1/4 of the plate should be protein. A good example of this would be a stir fry with lots of vegetables, a little tofu or chicken breast or shrimp served over 1 cup of brown rice.

Good luck! I found it very very very very slow to lose weight the closer I got to my goal weight. It did eventually happened, but it was a very slow steady process (I lost the first 50 lbs in 7 months, then it took 9 more months to lose the last 15 lbs!).