Paul Saladino· MD
what you'll find is i'm low carb but i'm nowhere near ketogenic at 150 sometimes 175 grams of carbohydrates a day
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what you'll find is i'm low carb but i'm nowhere near ketogenic at 150 sometimes 175 grams of carbohydrates a day
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it generally comes out to about the same uh numbers all the time this is what i trend toward you may be a little different but i do think this is a pattern that works well for a lot of humans so as you know i start with protein i get one gram per pound of body weight sometimes a little more of grass-fed grass-finished beet beef that's moderately fatty either 20 ground beef or rib eye steaks so i'm getting 20 percent of my calories there uh at least the the beef is 20 fat which doesn't lead to 20 calories as we'll see um but i do like fatty meat and in that fatty meat i'm getting about 200 grams of protein per day which is 800 calories four calories per gram of protein i will eat probably around 150 grams of carbohydrates a day multiply that by four you get 600 calories of carbohydrates or so and then i will probably eat about 150 plus grams of fat per day multiply that by nine you get thirteen hundred and fifty grand uh calories from carbohydrates for a total of around twenty seven hundred and fifty calories a day seems reasonable for me i think i probably do eat between twenty seven fifty and three thousand calories a day and if you break down the macros it's about 20 uh carbohydrates and it's about 50 calories by fat and about 30 calories by protein
I am not carbohydrate dependent in my metabolism now I don't believe I would still be considered low carb but I probably get 20 to 25% of my calories from carbohydrates and I've discussed this on previous podcasts where I broke down my macros we can link to one of those podcasts in the past but I will probably get 150 plus grams of carbohydrates a day maybe sometimes 200 grams of carbohydrates a day and I'm getting maybe 200 plus grams of protein and probably 150 to 170 grams of fat per day so if you do the macros what you come up with is about 20 to 25% of my calories are from carbohydrates the majority are fat and then the remaining part is protein protein usually around 30% so it usually is about 30 20 50 give or take for my macros
i'm probably i would say 200 to 225 grams of protein per day that's pretty consistent because i'm getting some protein from cheese and dairy and i also have two pounds of meat and some organs maybe even 240 grams of protein per day i think with all the honey and fruit i'm eating i'm probably 200 to 250 grams of carbohydrates a day and then the fat is probably the hardest one to estimate if you think about cheese and when i do ground beef it's 20 ground beef when i do steaks they have rib eyes i would say i'm close to 200 grams of fat a day if not maybe a little more so those are my ballpark macros macros i think it's that's pretty reasonable and if you do the math i think it's like 3 200 calories a day or more
also keep in mind that I'm extremely active and those macros may not be exactly what works for you I serve for about two to two and a half hours every day I'm out in the sun moving so I feel I perform best when I get that amount of carbohydrates but your mileage May vary
the amount of carbohydrates I'm getting every day is significant probably two to three hundred and fifty probably 200 to 3 350 grams of carbohydrates a day mostly in the form of simple sugars like lactose in milk lactose and cheese although a lot of that is fermented out I do eat cheese I forgot about that earlier and fructose glucose and sucrose in honey and fruit and fruit juice
I think a lot gets made of the fact that I've publicly said that I'm eating two to three hundred grams of carbohydrates a day and then people don't always frame that in the proper way that I am also surfing two to three hours a day and skating and lifting weights or swimming in a river and I'm pretty active for a human I would say I exercise every single day because I like to exercise not because I'm feeling in there's an imperative to do that so the amount of carbohydrates I eat as metabolically healthy fairly muscular 46 year old man may not be the right amount of carbohydrates for you
the amount of carbohydrates I eat as a metabolically healthy fairly muscular 46 year old man may not be the right amount of carbohydrates for you
I think a lot gets made of the fact that I've publicly said that I'm eating two to 300 grams of carbohydrates a day and then people don't always frame that in the proper way that I am also surfing two to three hours a day and skating and lifting weights or swimming in a river and and I'm pretty active for a human