How many carbs, proteins, and fats do I need to lose weight?

There is no magic number of carbs, proteins, and fats You have to eat to lose weight but a good place for you to start off with is...

• You want to make 50% of the calories you eat complex carbs and...
• You want to make 30% of the calories you eat protein and...
• You want to make 20% of the calories you eat healthy fats and...

You should lose weight very easily when...

• You eat the right amount of calories to lose weight, Exercise and...
• Eat all of your carbs, proteins and fats at a 50%/30%/20% ratio so for example...

If you went here and saw that you needed to eat 2,000 calories a day to lose weight then...

• 1,000 or 50% of the calories you eat would be from complex carbs meaning you would eat 250 grams of carbs a day since 1g of carbs = 4 calories & 250g of carbs x 4 = 1,000 calories and...
• 600 or 30% of the calories you eat would be from protein meaning you would eat 150 grams of protein a day since 1g of protein = 4 calories & 150g of protein x 4 = 1,000 calories and...
• 400 or 20% of the calories you eat would be from healthy fats meaning you would eat 44 grams of fat a day since 1g of fat = 9 calories & 44g of fats x 9 = about 400 calories and...

If you're eating the right amount of calories to lose weight, Exercising and eating your carbs, proteins and fats at a 50/30/20 ratio and you're not getting the weight loss results you want - then...

• You need to mainly focus on eating less or more carbs and then...
• You need to eat more protein or keep your protein at 30% and you also...
• Need to eat less fat or keep your fat at 20% so for example...

To lose weight faster by eating less carbs...

You can lower your complex carbs to 30-to-40% while increasing your protein to 40-to-50% and keeping your fats at 10-to-20% for a carb, protein and fat ratio of something like 40/40/20 and this MAY help you lose weight faster because...

• You may be *carb sensitive meaning that too many carbs in your diet may cause you to put on excess water weigh and store fat easily but...
• *If most of the carbs you eat are complex carbs or slow carbs - you probably will not gain any fat or excess water from these carbs and...
• Increasing your protein makes you burn more calories during digestion and it suppresses your appetite leading to faster weight loss - see fast weight los tip #7 and...
• Lower carb diets like this may be best for you if you can't exercise that much - See fast weight loss tip #26 but...
• Never go lower than 30-to-40% for complex carbs because that'll make you crave for more carbs (usually the bad carbs that make you gain weight) and also...
• Never go lower than 30-to-40% for complex carbs because that may lead to fatigue, irritably, and muscle loss all which will make it harder for you to lose weight and easier for you to gain weight and...

You can lose weight faster by eating more carbs...

If you do a lot of high intensity fat loss workouts because more carbs will give you more energy to workout longer & harder at a higher intensity which will make you burn more fat when you exercise so if your weight loss plan includes a lot of high intensity fat loss workouts...

• You may want to increase your carbs to 50-to-60% while keeping your protein at 30% and lowering your fat to 10% for a carb, protein, fat ratio of 60/30/10 but...
• Never go over 60% for complex carbs because that may cause you to store extra fat and/or excess water but...

You need to see what ratio of carbs, proteins and fats works best for you so...

Even though your friend lost a lot of weight on a carb, protein, and fat ratio of 50/30/20 - You may need a carb, protein, fat ratio of 35/45/20 to see weight loss results but...

Before you start changing up the amounts of carbs, proteins and fats you eat...

1. Make sure you're eating the right amount of calories to lose weight and...
2. That you're eating the right foods and...
3. That you're exercising all before you mess with the amounts of carbs proteins and fats you eat so...

A good starting point for you or anyone else trying to lose weight would be to start off eating all of your carbs, proteins and fats at a 50%/30%/20% ratio and then just go from there to see what works best and if you're not good with math...

• Use this calculator here to see exactly how many carbs, proteins, and fats you need to lose weight or to make it very easy...
• You could just eat the right amount of calories to lose weight, eat a Variety of weight loss foods by eating some complex carbs & lean proteins at each meal and should end up eating just about the right amounts of carbs, proteins, and fats to lose weight and...
• You can also look at these healthy diet meal plans here for special diets that already have pre-determined ratios's of carbs, fats & proteins and...

You should also look at...

• How to count calories to lose weight
• See how much you need to eat to lose weight
• How to see how many carbs, proteins and fats are in foods
• 498 Free Diet meal plans to lose weight

 

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