How many carbs should you have in a day

[LindaBrown]

Just wondering how many carbs should be consumed in a day.

[carl669]

no more than 30g per day.  yes, per DAY.  but that's just me. your appropriate carb level intake may vary.

[Gershon]

To answer that question, I recommend reading "The Starch Solution" by Dr. McDougall.

[Maxit]

This depends on a number of factors that only you know.  Do you have an issue with diabetes or metabolic syndrome?  Are you wanting to try a low carb way of eating?  Do you understand the difference between high and low glycemic foods?  I would suggest that you do some of your own research in addition to throwing a random question out to the FB folks.

[whome]

As many as you need to reach your calorie intake goal after you add up your protein and fat calories.

Good luck

[Dominique]

It's really up to what type of diet (from a macronutrient breakdown point of view) suits you best. LCHF (low carb, high fat) and HCLF (high carb, low fat) may work just as well, same with a diet that includes similar levels of carbs, proteins and fat.

Whatever diet you end up choosing, you would want to favour "good" carbs over "bad" ones, and "good" fats over "bad" ones.

And if you want to lose (or why not gain) weight, what matters most is the total amount of calories you eat (regardless of macronutrient breakdown) vs. what you burn.

[Heybales]

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@LindaBrown wrote:

Just wondering how many carbs should be consumed in a day.

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Many recommendations are based on getting enough protein in, since that can help with retaining muscle mass. And enough fat in since that helps hormones.

Then whatever your calorie allowance is, carbs gets the rest.

Protein at 0.82 grams per lb of bodyweight, fat at 0.35 g / lb bw.

That way those 2 numbers are set until you lose about 5 lbs, round to an even number you can memorize.

Then as your calorie burn goes up and down, and your eating level goes up and down, carbs gets the rest.

Unless you have liver problems, you can always go over in protein, but no extra benefit after that point, it'll just be turned to carbs eventually, and if unneeded as carbs, turned to fat.