Sun, Jul-29-07, 13:06
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Senior Member
Posts: 136
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Plan: low-carb
Stats: 100/100/100
BF:I wish I knew!
Progress: 85%
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JL, thanks for responding. I thought I was low-carbing but when I did fit-day I learned I really wasn't. My carbs could go up to 200-250 at times because I'd eat three pieces of fruit and lots of veggies, like tomatoes, squash, green beans, etc. But compared to what I used to be eating, I swear my carbs used to be in like the 500-600 range, with beans, rice, oatmeal. And i never did the stage where you eat less than 20 carbs per day, so maybe since I didn't actually get into that fat-burning zone. Someone once commented it's easy to be in "no man's land" where you never enter the fat-burning zone because you're still eating just a bit too many carbs. I did try the red meat, eggs, and super low carb veggies for about 3 days but felt fat and greasy and it was disgusting. So maybe it's my own fault! The food I eat now, though, when I enter it into fit-day, I am covering all my nutritional needs, usually like even 5 times more than needed because I eat so many veggies! But then I keep reading running sites about how stupid low-carb is for runners and how your muscles don't recover or replenish themselves... anyway, trial and error, I guess. And I've been eating like 150-225 carbs every day for like a year... that is low-carb to me!
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