Hello,
I'm new to this board and just had a couple of questions regarding diet. I used to think that all that really mattered was that calories in and calories out were either the same, lower or higher depending on your goals (and obviously that it wasn't junk food that you were eating) but recently I read a book about how carbs can effect your insulin levels and if you eat to many carbs and insulin goes up you will just store all these carbs as fat. I'm a little confused on this though. Like does it make a difference if it is low GI' or HI GI? For example, if I were to have a snack of an apple or 1/3 cup of oatmeal lets say, would these go straight to bodyfat if I didn't eat a protein with it? (I'm currently trying to put on a bit of lean muscle if that helps any...)
Also, lately I don't think I've been recovering from my workouts very well because for the rest of the day (i work out first thing in the morning) I feel so tired and sluggish and don't even want to move.... Right now I'm doing about 45 minutes cardio (running or walking on an incline), followed by 45 minutes weights (usually about 16 sets/session/body part and work 3 parts/day twice a week (so I do weights 4 days a week total and train abs and core on the other three) and then finish with 10 minutes of walking to loosen up. I know I do alot of cardio but i'm pretty much sitting for the rest of the day and I like to eat so this helps to stay a little leaner. (right now I'm 5'6", 116 lbs, 12%bf). I usually eat 2300 calories/day and 130 grams of protein. Anyway, do you think my lack of recovery is more to do with diet or my workout schedule? (I've always thought I was just maybe not eating enough but after seeing how little some of the people (remember I'm a girl) eat on here i'm starting to wondering if maybe I'm wrong.... - some diets are only like 1400-1700)
Anyway, any advice would be great!
Thanks!
BerryBlis
I'm new to this board and just had a couple of questions regarding diet. I used to think that all that really mattered was that calories in and calories out were either the same, lower or higher depending on your goals (and obviously that it wasn't junk food that you were eating) but recently I read a book about how carbs can effect your insulin levels and if you eat to many carbs and insulin goes up you will just store all these carbs as fat. I'm a little confused on this though. Like does it make a difference if it is low GI' or HI GI? For example, if I were to have a snack of an apple or 1/3 cup of oatmeal lets say, would these go straight to bodyfat if I didn't eat a protein with it? (I'm currently trying to put on a bit of lean muscle if that helps any...)
Also, lately I don't think I've been recovering from my workouts very well because for the rest of the day (i work out first thing in the morning) I feel so tired and sluggish and don't even want to move.... Right now I'm doing about 45 minutes cardio (running or walking on an incline), followed by 45 minutes weights (usually about 16 sets/session/body part and work 3 parts/day twice a week (so I do weights 4 days a week total and train abs and core on the other three) and then finish with 10 minutes of walking to loosen up. I know I do alot of cardio but i'm pretty much sitting for the rest of the day and I like to eat so this helps to stay a little leaner. (right now I'm 5'6", 116 lbs, 12%bf). I usually eat 2300 calories/day and 130 grams of protein. Anyway, do you think my lack of recovery is more to do with diet or my workout schedule? (I've always thought I was just maybe not eating enough but after seeing how little some of the people (remember I'm a girl) eat on here i'm starting to wondering if maybe I'm wrong.... - some diets are only like 1400-1700)
Anyway, any advice would be great!
Thanks!
BerryBlis