Are carbs evil?

[lisiflex]

After Christmas I wanted to get back to my old diet plan but wanted to ask what you think about it.

Because a lot of people all talk about the Paleo Stuff at the moment. I am not a huge fan of carbs such as white bread, pasta or chips, but I do kind of need my chocolate milk after or during training...

I train 20 hours a week (sports acrobatic), 5 hours are pure strength training.
I am 5'3'' and 120lbs.

I can't eat raw fruit because I get heartburn immediately. Also, raw veggies give me stomachache.
My diet must be cheap, easy, quick and healthy as I don't live at home, I am out of the house the whole day and can't afford eating out.

This is what I eat everyday:

• 2 slices of protein bread with ham and cheese
• 3 eggs (scrambles eggs)
• 200gr of rice
• 200gr of steamed chicken breast
• 1-2 bananas
• 1 small chocolate bar
• 500ml of milk with a little chocolate powered
• handful of nuts (walnuts, peanuts or almonds usually)

I also take one multivit pill a day.

Nutritional value calculated says it is:

2200kcal
120gr carbs
120gr fat
140gr protein
50 gr sugar

What do you think?
How do you eat?
 

[Keilani Gutierrez]

thanks to reading up on nutrition and reading the nether regions of the nutrition forum, i don't feel quite so inclined to think in terms of good or evil anymore. i can get fat on complex carbs and i can induce arrhythmia with simple carbs, so to my current and still, immature understanding, i'd say it's good to know that all carbs are sugars and that there is a glycemic index, meaning how fast that sugar gets to the blood stream. the other things to know are the other exposures to nutrients, be in vitamin or inorganic/organic mineral and how that also impacts the way the sugar does it's thing in our body.

 

i eat food, relatively clean, because two sour patch watermelon packs in a month is rare for me but still happens(like im november ) and measure what i need to reach a caloric number. lately, that's been a bit difficult due to a financial situation so i'm leaning out rather quickly, but if I were to total the amount of carbs i'd eat in a day, it'd probably look startling to some folks in numbers, but when you see it physically its not entirely impressive. also something to note is that i'm not gluten intolerant, i actually get very depressed and immunologic imbalanced and see very big differences in my workouts.

 

so that's also something to take into consideration. as for numbers, i got little to say because i don't feel comfortable saying something if im not doing it, so we'll put a pin on that.

[Damon Amato]

No food is inherently evil the same way that no food is inherently good without any context.  Even the top 10 smartest nutrition experts would give you 5 or more different levels of carbs you should eat.  It's a much more nuanced and individual topic than that.