Carbs aren't making you fat: The truth about carbohydrates & body recomposition

If you're a woman 35 and up who's ready to get real results without extreme dieting, endless cardio, or the old diet culture rules, you're in the right place so let's get into it hello hello welcome back to today's episode i am super pumped to talk about today's topic because it is honestly one of my favorite topics definitely my favorite macronutrient we are talking all about carbohydrates today all about carbs and i don't just mean fruits and vegetables which are fantastic we need those but i'm talking the bread, the bread, the pasta, the rice, the potatoes, all of the carbs that women are so terrified of that they have grown this fear around.

And I completely understand why.

And I used to be scared to eat them, too, thinking that we need to avoid carbs.

They make us fat.

They make us bloated.

They make us fluffy, all these things.

These poor carbs, carbs have gotten such a bad rap and they are so misunderstood.

And so today I'm really going to demystify carbohydrates, so to speak.

I'm going to explain to you why you need carbs, why they're actually a really good thing and the good things that they do in your body, how they support your goal of getting more lean, defined muscle, and why you should stop avoiding them, okay? So I hope that today's episode just i hope that you walk away from it not you know no longer fearing ordering the pasta if you want to every now and then at the restaurant having two slices of bread like god forbid you can order the cheeseburger and eat it with the bun my friends so let's talk all about carbohydrates today let's start with this okay so carbs women are so scared of them right scared to death of them and i understand i was too for a long time and that's because there's a history around carbs in the diet culture and in the fitness industry um that we need to talk a little bit about so here's kind of here's what's happened here's why carbs have such a bad rap over the last honestly several decades the western diet as we know it today has become increasingly dominated as you know by ultra processed foods hyper palatable foods foods that are really high in calories you know what i'm talking about the packaged things right the chips the cookies the sugary cereals fast food pastries candy all that kind of stuff Many of these foods are very high in refined carbohydrates, but they're also often combined with significant amounts of fat, too.

So it's not just carbs.

And they're, you know, generally, they're not great for your health or your body composition or your goals of getting lean.

We all know that, right? That's pretty obvious.

But the reason for this is because they're very high in calorie, typically for a small amount, right? Ultra processed foods are really deceiving because it'll be something that's relatively small or you don't think it's very much, but it adds up so quickly when you actually look at the numbers.

And not just are these things often high in calorie, but they're often just low in fiber and other nutritional value.

So they're very easy to overeat.

They don't carry a lot of nutritional value, but they stack up in calories.

So when diet culture basically looked at what people were eating too much of and what was contributing to weight gain in general, carbohydrates kind of became this easy villain.

Instead of looking at the bigger picture, which is ultra-processed foods, calorie density, added fats and sugars... like palatability, portion size, and just overall quality, those are really the issues.

But instead, the conversation went to, well, carbs are the problem.

And then, you know, low-carb diets started to reinforce this idea.

So people would cut out carbs entirely, which often meant that they were cutting out a huge amount of calorie-dense processed foods in the process of that.

So they ate fewer calories overall.

So obviously, they lost weight.

And then that narrative was just then reinforced.

Well, see, carbs were the problem.