A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/10): Eating carbs without the guilt 🍞
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Mano Minute (3/10): Eating carbs without the guilt 🍞 Carbs have had a rough decade. Low carb diets. No carb diets. Keto. Everyone treating bread like it is poison. Here is my take. Carbs are not the problem. The type of carbs is the problem. There are carbs that leave you feeling guilty, foggy, and hungry an hour later. Ultra processed snacks, white bread, sugary drinks, fast food. These spike your blood sugar fast and crash it just as fast. Your body does not get much from them. And you are hungry again before you know it. Then there are carbs that leave you feeling satisfied, energized, and full. Oats, rice, sweet potatoes, fruit, legumes. These digest slower, fuel your workouts, and support your gut. Your body actually knows what to do with them. Same macronutrient. Completely different outcome. The goal is not to eliminate carbs. It is to upgrade them. Most of the guilt people feel around carbs is tied to the processed version. When you swap those for real food carbs, the guilt tends to disappear. Because your body responds differently and you can feel it. Eat the sweet potatoes. Eat the legumes. Eat the fruit. Just be thoughtful about where your carbs are coming from. TIP: This week, look at where most of your carbs come from. If the majority are coming from packaged or processed foods, swap one of them for a whole food source. Start there. |
Mano Minute
A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/12): Why you get sore after a workout (and what it actually means) 💪 Soreness gets a bad reputation. People either chase it like a trophy or fear it like an injury. Most of the time, neither response is quite right. Here is what is happening. When you lift weights, you create tiny tears in your muscle fibers. These are called microtears. That feeling of soreness you get 24 to 48 hours after a workout? That is your body reacting to those tears. But here is the important part....
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