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Of all the different macronutrients, carbohydrates have created the most confusion. You see, because of their effect on insulin it’s easy to single them out.

The key issue here, however, is that if you simply take carbs out of your diet virtually every area of your life will suffer.

So here is how to optimize your carbohydrate intake:

1. Avoid liquid carbs during exercise: Unless you are training for more than one hour, liquid carbs will do more harm than good here. You see, they will ramp up your thirst drive and they can cause blood sugar issues in the middle of your session.

2. Ramp up vegetable intake: Eating more vegetables with your carbs will decrease the percentage of digested carbs going to your fat cells. Even better, eating more vegetables is a great way to increase your health and prevent disease.

3. Have carbs immediately after your weight lifting session: This is the only time you should consider having liquid carbs in supplement form. You see, right after you lift weights your muscles are hyper absorbent towards carbs. And taking advantage of this will allow you to exercise harder next time you are in the gym.

4. Eat before you exercise: This will not increase your thirst drive during exercise and it will not cause your blood sugar to crash. Just make sure you have no more than 250 calories here and have slow digesting carbohydrates.

5. Never go low: Extremely low carbohydrate intakes will backfire on you. You see, low carbohydrate intakes cause your body to breakdown muscle tissue for energy. And if you have less muscle tissue you can’t absorb that many carbohydrates and you run the risk of fat storage.

6. Don’t focus on whole grains: Whole grains are better than sugars, but legumes and beans are better than whole grains. So make sure you make legumes and grains your primary source of carbohydrates. Only have whole grains around periods of high physical activity.

You shouldn’t be afraid of carbs, but you shouldn’t eat them with abandon either. Optimize your intake today so that you can get better results by tomorrow!

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