Confusion
"I notice that MacMadame eats carbs"
I do but not as many as most endurance athletes.
When I was losing, I kept my carbs to 40-50 g a day and was still training for a triathlon. (Instense workouts 6 hours a week.)
These days my carbs are around 125 g a day and calories are about 1475. I am not training for anything though. (I still am dealing with post-concussion syndrome.)
When I was training, I was eating about 2000 calorie a day and eating just under 200 g of carbs a day.
If you want to keep your calories under 1200, then I think 100 g of carbs might be pushing it. I was doing 90 g when I got to that point.
A lot of it has to do with where you are in the process. I am in maintenance but when I was losing, I tried to limit my carbs. Even today, I do try to limit them but only because I can't get in the protein I need if I fill up on carbs.
As for protein shakes, even with a pylorus valve, they go right through us. That's because the pylorus valve opens as soon as anything the consistency of mush (or thinner) hits it. Whether or not they fill you up is going to vary. Some people they fill up a lot and some people not at all and everything in between. They used to really fill me up but now they don't fill me up as much as solid food. I only have one for breakfast and only because I am just not able to deal with solid food most days when I get up.
The thing is, your NUT is giving you advice based on your situation. If she were saying things like "your brain needs 120 g of carbs a day" or "if you eat less than 1200 calories a day you'll go into starvation mode" or "protein shake are empty calories", then I'd be rolling my eyes. But she's responding to your situation... she saying the carbs will help with your extreme constipation (and the carbs she's recommending will) and that you are hungry because the protein shakes are going through you (as some people find).
So I think it's worth at least trying some of the things she's saying. Maybe not all at once but maybe one of them at a time to see which works and which doesn't.
I do but not as many as most endurance athletes.
When I was losing, I kept my carbs to 40-50 g a day and was still training for a triathlon. (Instense workouts 6 hours a week.)
These days my carbs are around 125 g a day and calories are about 1475. I am not training for anything though. (I still am dealing with post-concussion syndrome.)
When I was training, I was eating about 2000 calorie a day and eating just under 200 g of carbs a day.
If you want to keep your calories under 1200, then I think 100 g of carbs might be pushing it. I was doing 90 g when I got to that point.
A lot of it has to do with where you are in the process. I am in maintenance but when I was losing, I tried to limit my carbs. Even today, I do try to limit them but only because I can't get in the protein I need if I fill up on carbs.
As for protein shakes, even with a pylorus valve, they go right through us. That's because the pylorus valve opens as soon as anything the consistency of mush (or thinner) hits it. Whether or not they fill you up is going to vary. Some people they fill up a lot and some people not at all and everything in between. They used to really fill me up but now they don't fill me up as much as solid food. I only have one for breakfast and only because I am just not able to deal with solid food most days when I get up.
The thing is, your NUT is giving you advice based on your situation. If she were saying things like "your brain needs 120 g of carbs a day" or "if you eat less than 1200 calories a day you'll go into starvation mode" or "protein shake are empty calories", then I'd be rolling my eyes. But she's responding to your situation... she saying the carbs will help with your extreme constipation (and the carbs she's recommending will) and that you are hungry because the protein shakes are going through you (as some people find).
So I think it's worth at least trying some of the things she's saying. Maybe not all at once but maybe one of them at a time to see which works and which doesn't.
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