{"id":74572,"date":"2021-05-09T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/?p=74572"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:43:56","slug":"active-women-needs-carbs-to-get-fit-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/blog\/active-women-needs-carbs-to-get-fit-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"active women needs carbs to get fit + strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If there’s one controversial macro: carbs.
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>> is low carb or high carb better?\u2063\u2063
>> should I carb cycle?\u2063\u2063
>> do I need to adjust carbs around my workouts?\u2063\u2063
>> are there carbs I should avoid?\u2063\u2063
>> which carbs pre and post workout?\u2063\u2063
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If you\u2019re an active woman with goals to get lean + strong: you gotta be friends with carbs. \u2063\u2063
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It\u2019s easy to spot when you\u2019re undereating them: feel like you\u2019re hitting a wall in your workouts? having trouble focusing at work? anxious, frantic or \u201cbuzzy\u201d feeling? sluggish and slow recovery after exercise?\u2063\u2063
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Your homework is to whip out your tracking app (my fav is\u00a0Cronometer<\/a>) log your food to the best of your abilities, and compare your average to the target recommended in my\u00a0DIY Macros Guide<\/a>. If you\u2019re falling short, you know what you gotta do! \u2063\u2063
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calculate your carb macros with my downloadable guide<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclick here for the DIY Macros Guide<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It\u2019s easy to spot when you\u2019re undereating carbs: feel like you\u2019re hitting a wall in your workouts? having trouble focusing at work? anxious, frantic or \u201cbuzzy\u201d feeling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macro-tracking","category-pfc-balanced-eating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74572"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74708,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74572\/revisions\/74708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyfieldrd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}