Carbs & glycogen

[JuiceDude]

Hi all,

Currently, I am trying to lose some weight so I am using intermittent fasting for about 16 hours after my last meal. At about 2pm the following day, my first meal contains around around 100 grams of complex carbs plus my proteins and fats. I then normally get to the gym at around 7pm and train. I know glycogen is broken down during exercise, but as I am trying to lose weight should I even consume any carbs after my workout? If i should which type of carbs would be better complex or simple high GI? I normally eat my evening meal 9.30pm and sleep around 11.30pm.

Thanks in advance
JD

 

[dylangemelli]

Hi all,

Currently, I am trying to lose some weight so I am using intermittent fasting for about 16 hours after my last meal. At about 2pm the following day, my first meal contains around around 100 grams of complex carbs plus my proteins and fats. I then normally get to the gym at around 7pm and train. I know glycogen is broken down during exercise, but as I am trying to lose weight should I even consume any carbs after my workout? If i should which type of carbs would be better complex or simple high GI? I normally eat my evening meal 9.30pm and sleep around 11.30pm.

Thanks in advance
JD

if you are trying to lose weight then no, you dont have to at all...

 

[aj187]

Science proves every 4 hours if you don't have protein your body will eat muscle, however if you drink pasteurized egg white then it will surpass eating muscle and eat fat, so if you want to see results quickest id reccomend drinking pasteurized egg whites every 4 hours as shitty as that sounds, i do that and run tren and clen every summer and look prestige. I reccomend egg whites as its lowest with sodium and high protein content. Sodium retains water retention and you look bloated. To deplete all water retention eat asparagus or any other diuretic like black coffee etc...blah blah blah

 

[stevesmi]

Science proves every 4 hours if you don't have protein your body will eat muscle, however if you drink pasteurized egg white then it will surpass eating muscle and eat fat, so if you want to see results quickest id reccomend drinking pasteurized egg whites every 4 hours as shitty as that sounds, i do that and run tren and clen every summer and look prestige. I reccomend egg whites as its lowest with sodium and high protein content. Sodium retains water retention and you look bloated. To deplete all water retention eat asparagus or any other diuretic like black coffee etc...blah blah blah

that just isn't true at all. you can go longer than 4 hours without protein. what do you think happens then if you sleep 8 hours? your muscles shrink at night? actually that is when they GROW. so don't believe those 'studies'

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Hi all,

Currently, I am trying to lose some weight so I am using intermittent fasting for about 16 hours after my last meal. At about 2pm the following day, my first meal contains around around 100 grams of complex carbs plus my proteins and fats. I then normally get to the gym at around 7pm and train. I know glycogen is broken down during exercise, but as I am trying to lose weight should I even consume any carbs after my workout? If i should which type of carbs would be better complex or simple high GI? I normally eat my evening meal 9.30pm and sleep around 11.30pm.

Thanks in advance
JD

not at all. one of the biggest myths out there is you must have carbs post workout. unless you just completed a half marathon you didn't blow through your entire glycogen levels enough where you will die if you don't get any sugars.

if you are trying to lose weight.. eat less, even during your window. that is the idea

 

[Masonic Bodybuilder]

You do not need to be grabbing any carbs after training. If you train at 7pm and eat at 9:30pm that is perfectly fine. No different than me really. I train and go home to cook a meal. By the time I get home and cook it is probably an hour or so since I finished my training.

 

[muskate]

You should always consume carbs post workout.
1. To blunt cortisol levels
2. To signal hypertrophy

If you are going to eliminate carbs from your diet, remove them in any meal BUT the post workout meal.

Post workout your glycogen storage enzymes are at the highest they will be all day. It's almost impossible for carbs you eat post workout to be stored as body fat.

 

[dylangemelli]

that just isn't true at all. you can go longer than 4 hours without protein. what do you think happens then if you sleep 8 hours? your muscles shrink at night? actually that is when they GROW. so don't believe those 'studies'

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not at all. one of the biggest myths out there is you must have carbs post workout. unless you just completed a half marathon you didn't blow through your entire glycogen levels enough where you will die if you don't get any sugars.

if you are trying to lose weight.. eat less, even during your window. that is the idea

i completely agree with steve... different goals have different ways of going about things...

 

[Mobster]

You do not need to be grabbing any carbs after training. If you train at 7pm and eat at 9:30pm that is perfectly fine. No different than me really. I train and go home to cook a meal. By the time I get home and cook it is probably an hour or so since I finished my training.

The so-called window gets argued about as being from 20 minutes to 90-minutes. So an hour is fine. I argued that this is something that makes as small a difference which might add up over the long term. Most members won't train enough years to see it.

 

[stevesmi]

The so-called window gets argued about as being from 20 minutes to 90-minutes. So an hour is fine. I argued that this is something that makes as small a difference which might add up over the long term. Most members won't train enough years to see it.

the window is actually 24 hours

the supplement companies want you to think it is 20 minutes though. they need to sell their tubs of crap to people

i still can't believe we are debating this topic in 2018 and people still think they need carbs post workout. this is stuff guys thought in the 70's.

 

[aj187]

that just isn't true at all. you can go longer than 4 hours without protein. what do you think happens then if you sleep 8 hours? your muscles shrink at night? actually that is when they GROW. so don't believe those 'studies'

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not at all. one of the biggest myths out there is you must have carbs post workout. unless you just completed a half marathon you didn't blow through your entire glycogen levels enough where you will die if you don't get any sugars.

if you are trying to lose weight.. eat less, even during your window. that is the idea

Well eating protein every 4 hours, nothing else besides protein, tren test masteron and clen....i live by that 6months of the year and i look fucking prestige.