Thread: White Rice Bloats Me Bad

White rice is shit, you should eat brown rice.

Originally Posted by Patrick Bateman

White rice is shit, you should eat brown rice.

Agree. Brown rice has nearly double the nutrient value, more protein & fats, less carbs with almost the same calories as white rice.

Why are you eating white rice?

Originally Posted by Jodi

Why are you eating white rice?

I agree....good question.

In most cases (99%), white rice sucks. Although I did watch a Jay Cutler video during which he consumed a minimum of 24 ounces of the stuff in one feeding.

You're experienceing a good old Carb Bloat. In rare cases, it might be CCI....Complex Carbohydrate Intolerance.

"Gas due to CCI occurs because the human digestive system lacks an enzyme---called alpha-galactosidase---which helps digest complex carbohydrates. Without the enzyme, undigested complex carbohydrates pass into the lower intestine and can begin to ferment. This fermentation causes gas to develop."

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While your case may not be as severe, and maybe not a problem with complex carbs vs. refined simple carbs, the basic conditions/results are similar. Just eat good, complex carbs.

I like white rice on a carb up.

I don't like brown rice, but it's definitely better for you. I use half brown, half white in the rice I make. The white makes the brown more palatable and the brown makes it better for you, but if you can take just brown, that's your best choice.

Originally Posted by PushAndPull

I don't like brown rice, but it's definitely better for you. I use half brown, half white in the rice I make. The white makes the brown more palatable and the brown makes it better for you, but if you can take just brown, that's your best choice.

Brown rice vs. white rice is kinda like steel cut oats vs. milled oats...once you get used to the difference in texture, etc., and learn how to season them, you'll never go back to the less healthy version.

Originally Posted by rahaas

Agree. Brown rice has nearly double the nutrient value, more protein & fats, less carbs with almost the same calories as white rice.

Originally Posted by Jodi

Why are you eating white rice?

Fair question, Jodi, as white rice is...crappola.

I live in Asia, and across the street there is a delicious cafe, that does this for lunch.

I have stopped eating white entirely.

(I never see brown rice, here), and I am eating very little carbs now, and when I do eat carbs, it's complex carbs.

I puff up like a balloon after eating white rice, and it lasts for a while.

Thanks for all the replies.

Originally Posted by DaMayor

I agree....good question.

In most cases (99%), white rice sucks. Although I did watch a Jay Cutler video during which he consumed a minimum of 24 ounces of the stuff in one feeding.

You're experienceing a good old Carb Bloat. In rare cases, it might be CCI....Complex Carbohydrate Intolerance.

"Gas due to CCI occurs because the human digestive system lacks an enzyme---called alpha-galactosidase---which helps digest complex carbohydrates. Without the enzyme, undigested complex carbohydrates pass into the lower intestine and can begin to ferment. This fermentation causes gas to develop."

Hubpages.com

While your case may not be as severe, and maybe not a problem with complex carbs vs. refined simple carbs, the basic conditions/results are similar. Just eat good, complex carbs.

Thanks, Da Mayor.

It's definitely a carb bloat. (white rice are simple carbs, correct?)

Never had the gassy problem with rice, so I doubt it's CCI.

Doing a carb-up or anything? I like to stick to white rice in those cases, brown otherwise.

Originally Posted by danzik17

Doing a carb-up or anything? I like to stick to white rice in those cases, brown otherwise.

Pardon my ignorance, danzik, I have to ask a quick question on "carbing up."

I am lifting 3 days per week, and doing cardio 2 times per week at the moment.

As stated, I do eat carbs, am eating a lot less at the moment.

For carbing up:

1. how often should I carb up?

2. how many grams of carbs on a carb up day?

3. what are the benefits? tricking the body?


Thanks in advance to you or anyone that can help.

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

Pardon my ignorance, danzik, I have to ask a quick question on "carbing up."

I am lifting 3 days per week, and doing cardio 2 times per week at the moment.

As stated, I do eat carbs, am eating a lot less at the moment.

For carbing up:

1. how often should I carb up?

Depends. How severe of a cut are you on? Are the majority of your calories being cut coming from carbs? How active are you?

Carbing up can range from every few days for a very very lean person to once in a blue moon if you're on a moderate cut.

2. how many grams of carbs on a carb up day?

Again, it depends. Some refeeds allow for a few hundred grams of carbs, others for much more. For example, I'm going to be eating around 1100g carbs this coming Friday --> Saturday after running a PSMF.

3. what are the benefits? tricking the body?

See the stickies. Carbing up helps to upregulate leptin, thyroid hormones, and others. On a deep cut that causes you to become glycogen depleted, you can enjoy the benefits of supercompensation as your body replenishes glycogen stores in the muscles. Essentially for a short period of time, you get to eat way more calories than normal without the excess being stored as fat. See Lyle McDonald's books/research for a much more in-depth/scientific explanation.

Thanks in advance to you or anyone that can help.

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