I LOVE CARBS ALMOST AS MUCH AS I HATE CARBPHOBIA 👇🏽 Carbohydrate aka GLUCOSE is the most efficient fuel source in your body, for mental and physical performance. To get your carbs working FOR YOU and not against you, match your carb intake and glycemic index to intensity and proximity to exercise, respectively. Here’s a good analogy to help you make sense of this: For optimal performance, and to maintain insulin sensitivity over time, we can think about carb intake like the gears on a bike shifting to maintain our cadence. “Gears are there to enable us to maintain a comfortable pedalling speed (or cadence) regardless of the gradient or terrain - something that no one single gear is capable of.” - Cycling Weekly Like gears on a bike, there’s no single amount (or TYPE) of carbohydrate for optimal performance, the idea is to adjust carb intake and glycemic index according to physical demand so we keep blood glucose steady for X unit of time (think about blood glucose like CADENCE)...