In my conversation yesterday with my sports dietician, she made a comment that surprised me. Perhaps my surprise is based on a misunderstanding - or trying to simplify/overthink a complex relationship.

We were discussing my concern about the BodPod results, and I asked her if I could be getting too many carbs. She has recommended 50% carbs in my diet and I've been doing that - focusing on high quality complex carbs that are spread throughout the day. She said that she would never recommend a lower percentage than that for someone as active as I, and that it was more important that the body get enough calories.

We do have proof that my body has been recently using muscle as energy even though my calorie intake hasn't been much below her targets (say 150-200 calories low on exercise days) - and there has been ample protein in my diet.

I've been thinking that perhaps I need to lower carbs a bit and raise fat a bit - but she said that this doesn't matter in the long term. This isn't intuitive to me and am curious to hear if anyone has experimented with this and what their results were. Of course every "body" is different.