Is it possible to lose fat eating carbs in every meal?

funnyclub

Hey guys I am looking to change up my diet.
I'm a 33 male, 6ft 2" and around 90kg.

I am currently on a plan that has me only eating carbs twice daily.
Every meal basically consists of chicken broccoli and a spoon of nut butter.
So around 50g protein and 12g fats. And the 2 meals with carbs would be either oats, sweet potato or brown rice making roughly 40g carbs in one 30g carbs in the other. I usually get 5-6 meals in.

My goal fat loss. I do boxing training for cardio once a week, olympic weightlifting twice and go the gym twice or 3 times. But I am still struggling to shift lower belly fat and back fat.

So i decided to try a online macro calculator and when I put my stats in for fatloss its giving me macros of 36.9g Carbs, 40g Protein and 16g fat for 5 meals a day.

Thats alot more carbs than I am currently taking in so what I am wondering is it still possible to lose bodyfat with carbs in every meal?

Stench Blossoms

If you eat less calories than you expend then yes you will lose weight. Some of that weight will be body fat.

ninjabox

I agree with Stench Blossoms you will still lose fat if your in a calorie deficit. I don't know what macro calculator you used but I would definitely question the need for 36.9g Carbs x 5 everyday. I try to get at least 50g each day because my anecdotal experience is that I feel better / have more energy with this amount. But I don't go higher than that really when I'm trying to lose fat.

I didn't pick the 50g number out of my head though, I got it from reading this article. I don't agree with Mark Sisson [the author] that eating 50g - 100g carbs daily will result in steady weight loss unless you are additionally minding your calorie intake (I think Sisson probably feels that most people would significantly reduce their calories as a by-product of eating 50g - 100g carbs daily anyway).

siochain

While the main thing is to stay in a calorie deficit for weight loss keeping carbs low may help you speed up fat loss and to stay in a calorie deficit. Lower carb diets help keep blood sugar levels stable hence keeping hunger at bay and by keeping insulin quite it may help with body composition (less fat storage). If you go ahead with your plan of having carbs twice a day aim to have them before and after your training sessions this will aid with performance and recovery.

funnyclub

Cool tnx for the advice.
Probably best to stick with what ive been doing and having carbs in my 3rd meal of the day and post training meal.
On weight training day I also add 50g maltodextrin to my post training shake!