Weight Loss Plan with diet and exercise

The number of Carbs to Lose Bodyweight

How many carbs to lose weight is something which is usually asked. I've always been told that to become successful at something find good role models that are already fantastic at what you want to be successful at. Once you find these people or this person, mimic their behavior and actions. By doing so you will reap the same benefits that they did. That will brings me to weight lifters.

Bodybuilders are not the best role model for everyone muscle wise, and maybe sometimes they take their body fat just much too low. However, everyone can learn and mimic the actions of bodybuilders to decrease body fat and improve body composition. It's true that the art of bodybuilding or body toning is literally attaining the best leanest body composition. So even though we might not want to resemble a strength athlete, especially one at its best, we can learn a great deal from how bodybuilders eat and exercise to achieve an improved fat to muscle ratio. After all they are the best at it. The question remains just how many carbs to lose weight?

Most Weight lifters

[caption id="attachment_28895" align="alignleft" width="300"] Happy young female in old jeans pant after losing weight[/caption] Most bodybuilders - that I have studied consume a 40, 40, 20 split of carbs, protein, and fat. 40% carbs, 40% protein, and twenty percent fat. This split does work, and I say that from experience. This is usually the split i do when trying to have a lean look. To figure out your 40, forty, 20 split you first have to determine how many calories you should be having a day. Then take the number of and take 45, 40, 20 percent from that number respectively. Later on you divide the quantity you get for carbs by 4 because there are 4 calories in every gram of carbs.

This is important to exercise if you need to be able to eat more cabohydrate supply without hitting spillover. Spillover is a large no no when trying to lose weight with carbs. It occurs when you're system's carb "gas tank" contains large amount and stores any extra carbs as fat. Simply by exercising your body needs more carbs to be used in the muscles.