I Ate Carbs for 30 Years (HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED)

If you eat carbs as part of your diet plan then you need to watch this short video. Some will have you believe that eating carbs is the fastest way to get fat and put on weight. But is this really true? The answer is a resounding no. This is especially not true if you are an athlete and need to perform at a high level.

Carbohydrates are either starchy or fibrous. The starchy carbohydrates are the ones that get the bad rap and are the ones that you are advised against eating. The issue is, if you are leading a sedentary lifestyle and don’t have any appreciable amounts of lean muscle mass on your body, then sure your body will be less forgiving of their consumption.

If you are training however, your muscles will act as a storage depot for carbohydrates in the form of glycogen.

When present, they provide both an immediate source of energy in the form of circulating blood glucose and again, as an energy reserve to fuel muscular contraction in the form of stored glycogen.

Low carb diets, no carb diets, carnivore and keto are all ways that people recommend eating when they believe that carbohydrates do nothing positive for your health and wind up leading to health damagine inflammation and weight gain. This truly is short sighted and not reflective of all of the available literature and data that we have on carbohydrate consumption.

If your goal is to build muscle and fuel performance then you don’t want to avoid complex or starchy carbs all together. Instead, you want to find a way to include them at least in some part in your daily meals. Now, my best recommendation is to eat double the quantity of fibrous carbohydrates or green vegetables as you do starchy carbohydrates per meal.

You can even make this simpler by using the visualization method. Cover one third of your plate with a lean protein, and in the remaining two thirds choose carbs but make sure that the fibrous options amount to double the volume of starchy.

Carbohydrates don’t only help fuel muscle contraction but their ingestion tends to keep people sane and able to stick to their diets long term. All too often, the carb restricted diet plans are set up for failure because people enjoy their carbohydrates too much and they are unwilling to forego them entirely for the rest of their life. As soon as they cannot resist their inclusion in meals any more, they fall off of their diet and wind up putting back on any weight that they had lost.

This doesn’t have to be the case.

If you are looking for a meal plan that allows you to eat carbs without deprivation and gets you to build muscle more easily and to a greater degree then make sure you keep watching this channel. There are plenty of diet videos and meal plan videos to follow.

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Jeff Cavaliere MSPT, CSCS served as both the head physical therapist and assistant strength coach for the New York Mets. Jeff earned his Masters of Physical Therapy and Bachelor’s of Physioneurobiology from the College of Health Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs. He is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

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