Calorie Counting..?

juf2m

I'll give you some free advice I got from my nutritionist. You can manage low carb if you are riding at a low and steady level, but for speed/endurance, you simply must have the carb, or you will run into trouble. The main one being that when your body runs out of carb energy, it starts in on your muscles. Another thing is that when you eat a lot of protein/fat, and go into ketosis, your body tries to flush out the keytones (sp?) and in doing that, you lose a lot of water, which makes your blood thicker, and your heart work much harder. This is made even worse when you are sweating on a ride.


I tried low carb once and did lose weight, but I couldn't possibly keep up the low carb lifestyle. Low carbers usually have a weight gain when they go back onto carbs again, as they are "carb sensitive". A lot of the gain is water. I find now that I am eating more normally that I can eat lots of carbs and not gain anything back...within reason of course, and keeping up the physical activity.

FWIW, I am also on a diet, I need to lose 10lbs for a belly dancing gig in November! I hope to get that done by cycling so I can go on a maintenance diet and eat more.

HellonWheels

[QUOTE=juf2m]I'll give you some free advice I got from my nutritionist. You can manage low carb if you are riding at a low and steady level, but for speed/endurance, you simply must have the carb, or you will run into trouble. The main one being that when your body runs out of carb energy, it starts in on your muscles.

EXACTLY TRUE.

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