How much carbs should you eat if you are trying to gain LEAN muscle?
Only carbs trigger the fat storage hormone insulin. Dietary fats not only don’t make you fat, they are essential to good health. Fats are *required* to convert vitamins & minerals to a bioavailable form than can be incorporated into the body structure. 200grams carbs = 800 fuel calories which is too low for anyone – your protein is being converted to a very inefficient fuel & not being utilized properly which will force the body to catabolize it’s own lean tissues rather than build them. If you eat meats without sufficient fuel calories from fats or carbs, then you convert dietary protein to fuel leaving no protein for cellular needs, forcing the body to catabolize it’s own lean tissues. Carbs may be optional, but fuel calories are not but they can come from fat or carbs, but not protein. If you don’t keep your calories high enough, the body will strip it’s own lean tissue for nutrition. Although that may look great on a scale it will make it MUCH easier to accumulate fat in the future
