nutrition today - what do toy

[trainhardeveryday]

Hey guys so yet another nutrition question from a twenty year old female who strength trains six days a week
so basically after a new year binge, I've been on a '' diet involving clean eating for three weeks without any cheats. Today I cooked some home made healthy chicken burgers. The burgers included: fresh chicken breast mince, parsley, garlic, onion, half an apple, one zucchini and one egg. I served them with turkey ham, greek yogurt and mushrooms inside wholemeal buns. I had four burger patties and two wholemeal buns. Everything was healthy, what I'm concerned with is the two buns...maybe those were too manu carbs? Throughout the rest of the day all I ate was fibre cereal with skimmed milk and a protein shake with half a banana. Any idea if it was an excess of carbs? Or was it ok?
Thanks

[Boss Man]

Well firstly, you need to detach the idea of the word carbs in relation a high GI carbs, because carbs are in many things, including plant matter, and dairy.

You've got carbs in the buns, zucchini, parsley, garlic, onion, yoghurt, mushrooms and apple.

The amount of carbs shouldn't be a massive problem, especially as cooked foods lose some of the carb content anyway after being cooked, but it's all relative to what you were eating during the day.

If you exercise and need above the female sedentary average of 1,800 calories, then even if you went to around 2,100 and had, as an upper limit, around 40% of those calories as carbs, you'd be eating 840 calories of carbs per day, which is 210g carbs.

That is not a major issue anyway. There's about 40 calories in half an apple most of which are carbs, not much carb in onion and garlic and the yoghurt is not too bad and depends on the portion size anyway. If it's around 1tbsp or so, then it's not a major issue really.

The high carb plant matter type foods tend to be things potatoes, apples, broccoli, banana, rice, bread, pears, corn and yam and a few others no doubt and there's a mix of low to high GI carb sources there.

I'd say looking at what you ate all day there's not much to worry about.