5 Reasons to Love Carbohydrates when Building the Body You Want
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Cutting carbohydrates from one's diet has long been a popular way for people to lose weight and achieve their ideal bodies. This is the reason why cauliflower has taken over the world.
Yet, what people should know is that carbohydrates are essential in helping you build your desired body. In fact, not getting enough carbohydrates may prevent you from getting the body you want.
That's why, in this episode of Embrace Your Real podcast, I'm going to share the importance of carbohydrates for building the body you want. In fact, I'm going to share 5 reasons why you should start to love carbs.
What I discuss:
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Carbs are your main energy source for intense physical activities.
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Carbs are required in the process of muscle repair and growth.
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Carbs help with healthy hormone regulation.
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Carbs also with healthy mood regulation.
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Low carb diets lead to poor digestion which causes inflammation, boating, and a slow metabolism.
And BONUS 6: Sustainability. If you have to deprive yourself, you're not going to stick with it long term.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie |
| 0:04.8 | Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a |
| 0:10.3 | dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go. Hello and welcome back to you another episode today we are talking about |
| 0:27.0 | and welcome back to you another episode today we are talking about carbohydrates. One of my favorite |
| 0:36.2 | macronutrians so we're going to be talking about the five reasons to love |
| 0:39.9 | carbohydrates when building the body that you want and this is to the woman who's |
| 0:44.0 | scared of carbohydrates I'm thinking back to my college self I thought that the |
| 0:50.8 | answer to all of my problems when it came to building the body that I wanted was to cut out |
| 0:56.4 | carbs and I hear this often like whenever someone comes to me and they are you know getting on track and then off track and then all of these things they're in |
| 1:06.1 | this vicious cycle. I hear so often I'm just going to cut out my carbs. I'm just going to reduce my |
| 1:12.0 | carbs. Like if I truly had a |
| 1:14.0 | dollar for every single time I heard a woman say I need to lose weight so I'm not |
| 1:19.5 | eating carbs right now or I'm eating low-carb, like I would be a billionaire, honestly. |
| 1:25.4 | Like there are so many women who say this and this was me too, like I'm not saying |
| 1:29.8 | that this is something stupid. This is honestly what I believed for a decade plus of my life and |
| 1:35.9 | so that's why I'm putting out these episodes because I want you to know that there is an |
| 1:40.3 | alternative way and carbs are amazing to help you build the body that you want. |
| 1:44.8 | In fact, they are essential. |
| 1:47.3 | They are essential to building the body that you want and I truly believe that when you are reducing your carbon take to the point where it's you know hindering you |
| 1:57.9 | Overall like that is actually one of the main reasons that's holding you back from building the body that you want. |
| 2:04.4 | And so in today's episode, if you're one of those people that thinks that you need to cut out |
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