What Happens If You Eat 5,800 Calories Daily on an LCHF Diet? - Diet Doctor
To cut a long story short, a smallish guy ate 5800 calories a day on LCHF for 3 weeks and only gained 1.7kg, which is a lot less than the calories-in-calories-out theorists would predict. And vastly less than others have gained by eating similar amounts of calories on typical modern High-Carb-High-Fat diets.
My first thought was that his calories were 10% carbs, so he was getting 580 calories per day from carbs - or about 145 grams of carbs. I would call that a moderate-carb diet, since most of us try to stick to less than 20 grams of carbs per day for weight loss.
To cut a long story short, a smallish guy ate 5800 calories a day on LCHF for 3 weeks and only gained 1.7kg, which is a lot less than the calories-in-calories-out theorists would predict. And vastly less than others have gained by eating similar amounts of calories on typical modern High-Carb-High-Fat diets.
My first thought was that his calories were 10% carbs, so he was getting 580 calories per day from carbs - or about 145 grams of carbs. I would call that a moderate-carb diet, since most of us try to stick to less than 20 grams of carbs per day for weight loss.
