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Lou wrote:What happens to excess carbs? Some days (often) I'm eating oatmeal and berries, potatoes, rice, corn, barley, quinoa, beans, green and yellow vegetables (some raw) and some fruit, cereal and/or bread all day long. You were right! I love this food! Too much, maybe? I don't count calories or try to keep track. I think I'm eating more carbs than what I burn in a day. I exercise every day. I should be around 80-10-10 on these days. Even with minimal fat and protein coming from the foods I listed above, my weight continues to fluctuate up as well as down. Is it possible to eat too much starch? What happens to excess? Am I experiencing de novo lipogenesis?
Lou wrote:What happens to excess carbs? Some days (often) I'm eating oatmeal and berries, potatoes, rice, corn, barley, quinoa, beans, green and yellow vegetables (some raw) and some fruit, cereal and/or bread all day long. You were right! I love this food! Too much, maybe? I don't count calories or try to keep track. I think I'm eating more carbs than what I burn in a day. I exercise every day. I should be around 80-10-10 on these days. Even with minimal fat and protein coming from the foods I listed above, my weight continues to fluctuate up as well as down. Is it possible to eat too much starch? What happens to excess? Am I experiencing de novo lipogenesis?
haze5736 wrote:Lou wrote:What happens to excess carbs? Some days (often) I'm eating oatmeal and berries, potatoes, rice, corn, barley, quinoa, beans, green and yellow vegetables (some raw) and some fruit, cereal and/or bread all day long. You were right! I love this food! Too much, maybe? I don't count calories or try to keep track. I think I'm eating more carbs than what I burn in a day. I exercise every day. I should be around 80-10-10 on these days. Even with minimal fat and protein coming from the foods I listed above, my weight continues to fluctuate up as well as down. Is it possible to eat too much starch? What happens to excess? Am I experiencing de novo lipogenesis?
I am curious about this too. Since starting this way of eating I have been stuffing myself at almost every meal. I never eat till comfortably full. I can't seem to stop myself until I feel stuffed. And I've lost around 20 pounds in just over a year and a half. I'm 6'3" and weigh around 148 pounds now. I eat lots of starches. A lot more starch than green and yellow veggies. Bread, muffins, oatmeal, peanut butter, raisins and walnuts in my 2 cups of cooked oatmeal. Every once in a while I will use Chronometer to track my food and I've always been close to 80-10-10.
I suspect it has to do with everyone being different. I think my body burns the excess food. Even when I was eating SAD I would eat a lot. I still looked skinny at 170 lbs. at 6'3". I have noticed that since starting this WOE I wake up almost every night to use the bathroom. That never happened to me before this WOE. I'm guessing my body is able to burn off the excess rather than gain weight. I have experimented...when I can muster up enough self control to not stuff myself at dinner I will not wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.
I am also concerned about losing any more weight. Part of me fears that if I start eating less than I do now I may lose more weight. I already get a lot of crap for being "too skinny". I think I'm at the very lowest end of the bmi scale.
haze5736 wrote:And I've lost around 20 pounds in just over a year and a half. I'm 6'3" and weigh around 148 pounds now.
haze5736 wrote:I am also concerned about losing any more weight. Part of me fears that if I start eating less than I do now I may lose more weight. I already get a lot of crap for being "too skinny". I think I'm at the very lowest end of the bmi scale.
haze5736 wrote:Even when I was eating SAD I would eat a lot. I still looked skinny at 170 lbs. at 6'3".
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity wrote:More than 2 in 3 adults were considered to be overweight or have obesity.
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