Is it possible to eat carbohydrates and lose weight?
The diets we know today are based on 2 essential formulas.
Or they will tend to control the sugars in the diet, or carbohydrates, then carbohydrates; or the fats in the diet, then the lipids. So either we will have a low carbohydrate diet or a low fat diet to lose weight.  Of course, there is the third way, that of a balanced, but basically low-calorie diet. If I go on a 1000 calorie diet, it doesn’t matter what I eat, I still eat little and lose weight.

But let’s say that the first two roads represent the easiest and most crafty shortcuts.
Do you want to lose weight? Cut carbs away. Or the fats.
This is because a diet rich in both carbohydrates and fat tends to make us fat.

BECAUSE FATS AND CARBOHYDRATES DO NOT AGREE

The reason is to be found in a mechanism, known as the Randle effect or Randle cycle , whereby carbohydrates and fats are the two macronutrients that compete to provide us with energy.
When we eat a meal rich in both carbohydrates and fats, our body will burn the carbohydrates first, accumulating fat… into fat.
This obviously applies in the case of calorie-rich meals.
Nothing happens if you combine two or three almonds with one fruit! 

Furthermore, a diet rich in lipids is generally also high in calories. One gram of fat provides 9 calories, compared to 4 for carbohydrates and proteins. Also, unlike fat, many naturally occurring carbohydrate-rich foods contain water and fiber. Fiber does not have the same caloric value as carbohydrates. For some, we come in at less than 3 calories per gram. Others have null value.

In our body the main metabolism is carbohydrate.
Glycolysis, therefore the transformation of glucose into energy, is our main energy pathway. It is considered the most primitive biological mechanism for all living organisms. This is because carbohydrates are the most abundant macronutrient in nature.

By optimizing the carbohydrate metabolism, it is possible to lose weight with carbohydrates , while reducing the daily amount of fat to the minimum amount that allows us to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins.
Those who love to eat carbohydrates and want to lose weight must therefore reduce fat.
Typically providing a maximum of 30-50 grams of fat per day through the diet.

This means reducing seasonings, and reducing foods rich in fat, but also paying attention to many foods that apparently belong to the category of “carbohydrates” such as baked goods, sweets and biscuits, but which in fact also have a considerable amount of added fat.

ARE YOU REALLY ADDICT TO SUGAR?

When people think they have a carbohydrate problem or sugar addiction, they make a huge mistake.
If you love cookies, ice cream, cakes, croissants and pizza, you are not addicted to sugar.
But from industrial foods or from the combination of carbohydrates + fats + salt. Don’t eat granulated sugar by the spoonfuls. Eat these foods, without considering that the addiction does NOT come from sugars, but from how they are formulated.
I’ll explain it better in this paragraph.

THE RISK OF MIXED FOODS: CARBOHYDRATES + FATS.

Eating too much fat also means eating a high-calorie diet with little food available because it is energy-intensive. Since a gram of fat equals 9 calories, therefore more than double a gram of carbohydrates, those who eat foods rich in carbohydrates and fats end up eating a diet rich in calories without even being too abundant.
And to eat a lot more.

Another reason why this happens is that fats are exploited in the food industry to increase the palatability of foods. We consider cookies to be “carbohydrates”. But cookies typically have 20-25 grams of fat out of 60 grams of carbs. They are not “just” carbohydrates.

To be clear, 20 grams of fat and 60 of carbohydrates are equivalent to 70 grams of rice seasoned with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Try it: don’t you think there is too much oil?
Yet with biscuits you do not notice!

To give you another practical example, let’s take the case of French fries, a food that contains both carbohydrates and fats.

A 40-gram bag of chips, therefore a medium-small but not large pack, provides almost 240 calories. The equivalent of about 65 grams of pasta, weighed raw and half a kilo of apples. But a bag of chips is not as full as 65 grams of pasta, much less not as full as three large apples.
One serving of fast food fries contains over 300 calories. We add a sachet of mayonnaise and we arrive at over 400 calories. The equivalent of a meal, since for those same calories we can eat 100 grams of pasta or rice with a spoonful of simple sauce and a teaspoon of parmesan. But we generally don’t eat chips as a meal, but as a side dish. On the other hand, a plate of 100 grams of pasta is a lunch for us.
Do you understand the difference?
And the same thing can be said of donuts, croissants, pastries, cheesecake.