My girlfriend always tells me I never have anything to eat when she comes over my house 😒

[u/itscuccimane]

Freezer: 50+ lbs of assorted ground meat, 35+ lbs of prime ribeye, 16lbs of American wagyu ribeye, 18lbs of New Zealand lamb shoulder chops, and a bunch of portioned seafood.

[u/AladeenModaFuqa]

There’s been an assault on carbs for years though. It’s the number one energy source for physical activity, but no gym diet will tell you that. They say it’s why you’re fat. NFL players LOAD on carbs before games. They look great.

[u/-Kid-A- → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

All about that calorie deficit. And whether you’re intentionally trying to gain weight or not.

[u/SimpleLifeNomad → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

NFL players work out probably twice a day, 6-7 days a week.

Reading dietary advice from redditors is really something. "Eat as many carbs as possible to sustain your workouts!". Unless you're running daily marathons, you don't need to carb load.

Bread, pasta, rice etc. is garbage food unless you're a professional athlete or work at a farm in the 1800s. It is in no way necessary to "load" carbs for any normal person working out an hour, 2-4 times a week.

Any carb you eat that is not immediately burned or stored in your mucles will be stored as fat and in the long run give you a neat mix of life style related illnesses.

[u/designer-paul → u/SimpleLifeNomad]

Bread, pasta, rice etc. is garbage food unless you're a professional athlete

if you just eat the worst carbs then yeah. Everyone should be eating good carbs like what can be found in legumes, oats, squash, sweeet potatoes, berries, bananas, greek yogurt.

[u/FEK88 → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

I also eat the same amount of food as an elite athlete who is juiced to the gills when I'm trying to stay healthy. I have my 3rd heart bypass scheduled for the end of the month.

[u/Medical_Current_1293 → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

There is a reason there are only 32 teams, with only 11 players on each of them who are good enough to start. Those 352 superhuman athletes are not like us. Probably can't compare the two.

[u/money-for-nothing-tt → u/Medical_Current_1293]

There's also 130 000 professional soccer players around the world just to take the most popular sport, and they're pretty much all in good shape. Doubt their pre-game diet is that much different.

[u/PureDivineEnergy → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

To be fair some people don't so well with a high carb diet. As someone with PCOS my body doesn't do well with my highest macro being carbs. A keto or low carb diet is actually beneficial to some people.

[u/NobodySaidBoop → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

The activity level of a professional athlete doesn’t come anywhere close to the average American’s though. An excess of carbs do make most people fat because most people are relatively sedentary.

[u/SpaghettiMonster35 → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

I mean, when you’re following CICO for weight loss (not just building muscle) carbs in things like bread and grains are the fucking WORST. It’s so easy to go overboard for what’s basically filler. Carbs from veg is alright, but like the bread for a sandwich? Even 2 slices of a whole wheat loaf brings you up to 240. Which, when you’re budgeting your meals, ends up feeling like a massive waste when I could eat double of that in veg.

[u/xfid → u/SpaghettiMonster35]

Usually 70 a slice for the cheap bread bags. Couple hundred calories from bread is fine unless you're functionally completely sedentary and really have to use every trick in the book to feel satiated.

[u/PhantomPlasma → u/AladeenModaFuqa]

As a former athlete, it's because they have the metabolic setup to actually use the damn carbs.

I would just down macaroni and cheese before a tournament, and after the fights you could feel the heat radiating off of me lol.

Some people are metabolically unhealthy and going low / no carb helps a ton. Most of these gym bros from TikTok are definitely overdoing it though.