How many grams of carbs should you eat a day?

Here's a popular question. I weigh "this much" and I'm "this tall", I workout like "this" and I'm looking to get "these results", how many grams of carbs should I eat a day? Some people/websites/magazines will tell you to take your body weight and multiply it by your height, divide that by the number of days a week you workout, then add the grams of protein you eat every day, take this number and divide it by the 3rd digit of your telephone number, then pick your favorite number between 1 and 1000 and add that in too, then do the magic carb dance and your final total is the number of carbs you need to eat every day. Okay, maybe that isn't the exact carb formula, but it is something like that. Anyway, my method for figuring out how many carbs you need to eat each day has nothing to do with math formulas and won't require you to have a calculator handy. It is actually quite easy.

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