Should you be afraid of carbohydrates while losing weight?

To eat or not to eat, that's the question.

In my opinion, carbohydrates have acquired a bit of a demonic image because of sweets.

But, to be honest, sweets contain no less fat than carbohydrates.

Let's get things straight!

The World Health Organization recommends eating so that the proportion of carbohydrates in the diet is 50%. This will provide a person with energy, strength, a stable emotional state, and complex carbohydrates contain a lot of fiber, vitamins, and minerals.

There are complex carbohydrates (or slow carbohydrates, because they release energy slowly)

And simple carbohydrates (or fast carbohydrates – they provide energy quickly).

Usually the problem with nutrition is that people don't eat complex carbohydrates (cereals, bread, potatoes, vegetables, pasta) to avoid getting fat, but instead eat countless fast carbohydrates (juices, drinks, sweets, refined foods, buns, cakes, honey).

But here's the catch: when you don't eat slow carbs, you want to eat fast carbs, and preferably all the time. When you start eating complex carbs, there is not much room for sweets, you just don't want them as much. This has always been the point of my challenges – to retrain the habit of eating simple carbohydrates and replace them with complex ones, and leave the simple ones "for pleasure."

Do I need to give up carbs to lose weight? In my opinion, no! Losing weight is a process of getting into normal healthy eating habits. Eating carbohydrates is normal. Do you need to go on a diet and then go back to normal eating? As for me, this is a complicated path. You can eat everything and lose weight.

P.S. When we don't eat carbohydrates, our body begins to create them from proteins, which, instead of giving the body elasticity, are used to form glucose.