week 4 update

xcelbeyond · Sep 22, 2003

Sorry, I gave you the page for raw oats. Uncooked otmeal is **broken link removed**

It does say a lot of sugar - never noticed that before?!?!

xcel

rippedboy · Sep 23, 2003

yeah 1 cup is 54g so i am having 2/3 cup in the morning which is 36g. i lowered the carbs a bit, i am now having a 4 oz yam pre training with my chicken breast and a 6 oz yam with a protein shake post training. i think i am going to have only yams post workout or maltodextrin and not dextrose. i dropped it for 2 days and lost some water already. i believe a 4 oz yam has about 20g carbs, i think a yam or malto would be great post-workout, because yams have sugar in it, but not fructose. i am going to see how my results come. today i had about 104 carbs and didnt feel shitty at all. i'll keep posting my results.

xcelbeyond · Sep 23, 2003

For post-workout I believe that you want to take a HIGH GI carb, something that will get absorbed quickly into your system like maltodextrin or dextrose. Yams/sweet potatoes, while they taste "very sweet" actually have a relatively low GI of ~50!

xcel

rippedboy · Sep 24, 2003

xcelbeyond said:
For post-workout I believe that you want to take a HIGH GI carb, something that will get absorbed quickly into your system like maltodextrin or dextrose. Yams/sweet potatoes, while they taste "very sweet" actually have a relatively low GI of ~50!

xcel

well! i am so confused with the simple/complex carbs and the GI! i read an apple, which has simple sugars, has a GI of 39/100 and maltodextrin, a complex carb, has a GI of 100. I read somewhere a potato had about 98/100 so i thought the yams would be ok since they contain sugar in them. i am still confused though. however i think the malto is going to be it, at about 50g post-workout.