26/11/2025
Are you avoiding carbs to lose weight? That may not be the answer…
How do you feel when you cut out carbs?
1. Avoiding carbs feels productive, but it actually makes your body less efficient.
Your brain runs on glucose.
Your thyroid uses carbs to convert hormones.
Your muscles rely on carbs to lift, recover, and grow.
Cut carbs too low and your entire system slows down.
2. You can feel exhausted even when you are eating enough calories.
If your carbs are too low, your body burns the wrong fuel.
That is why low carb people often look fine but feel terrible.
3. Most cravings come from naked carbs, not from carbs themselves.
A banana alone, a bagel alone, pretzels alone.
They spike fast, crash fast, and leave you hunting for something sweet an hour later.
Pair carbs with protein, fat, or fiber and that problem disappears almost overnight.
4. Performance lives and dies by carb timing.
Low carb for too long and your workouts feel miserable.
Right timing and you feel like a completely different person in the gym.
No supplement can replicate what carbs do for energy output.
5. Perimenopausal women actually need more carbs, not less.
Too low carb increases cortisol, disrupts sleep, and reduces lean mass.
Thirty to forty percent of total calories from carbs is often the sweet spot.
6. Active days deserve more carbs. Sedentary days deserve less.
This is why you can walk 25,000 steps at Disneyland and eat fries without feeling it.
Your body needed it.
But that same meal on a low movement day hits very differently.
Once you understand those levers, carbs stop feeling dangerous.
It’s all about balance and understanding what your body needs.
