carb question

[brokeass122]

ok so im dieting right now and am so sick of cooking brown rice. So here is my question, there are these rice cakes that they sell at whole foods and trader joes that are made of organic brown rice, can i just eat those instead of cooking the rice?

 

[GFR]

quaker oats
sweet potatoes

yams

brown rice
basmati rice
brown basmati rice

apples
grapefruit
strawberries
blueberries

100% whole grain breads
sprouted breads

beans
legumes

 

[The13ig13adWolf]

post workout rice cakes are great. as far as replacing rice totally, not such a good idea. when it comes to rice it doesn't make THAT much of a difference whether you use brown or white. go with white for a while.

 

[Jodi]

post workout rice cakes are great. as far as replacing rice totally, not such a good idea. when it comes to rice it doesn't make THAT much of a difference whether you use brown or white. go with white for a while.

I would definately disagree with this.

White rice is over processed and causing a much quicker insulin spike than brown rice. Not to mention you are not getting the great benefits such as fiber and other vits from the brown rice. White rice is depleated of all the great things that brown rice has.

IMO you would be better off without the rice cakes too. Instead go for some oats, homemade granola, sprouted grain breads, sweet potatoes, fruits, beans.........there are so many other choices.

 

[The13ig13adWolf]

a high GI carb, such as rice cakes, is ideal (combined with a liquid protein) PWO since insulin (a.) decreases circulating cortisol levels, (b.) decreases exercise induced protein breakdown and (c.) increases protein synthesis. while rice or sweet potatoes would be fine, i'm partial to higher GI carbs PWO because it's a time when nutrient uptake is at it's highest.

other high glycemic examples would be maltodextrin, dextrose, white rice and white potatoes.

 

[The13ig13adWolf]

BTW, i agree to some extent with your reasoning to stick with brown rice but everything is relative. how often it's being eaten...how much....what's the timing in reference to training. all of these things need to be taken into consideration. i also subscribe to the P/F or P/C meal combination and never have all three in one sitting. this makes a difference as well.

 

[Jodi]

Some people get great benefits from the high gi carbs PWO and some people (such as endo's - endo-meso's) it is not ideal for. If you are a hard gainer than sure and wish we could all be so lucky. I still think it's best to try both ways and see which one works best. For me, I become softer on high gi carbs PWO and I know many people on this board that feel the same way. There is no one right way, it's what works best for you

However, during regular meals, I still feel that rice cakes or white rice is not going to provide the benefits that brown rice provides and white rice/rice cakes will be causing an unnecessary insulin spike.

 

[brokeass122]

yeah but brown rice is the only carb that i actually like, i cant stand oatmeal, or yams. Granola is good but i cant put milk on it cause milk has a bunch of sugar. Thats why i basically stick to the brown rice. Right now im doing 100-150ish a day 5 days a week, then carb loading on the weekends 350-450.

let me know what you think, o yeah thanks for all the input most of the time people just flame me

 

[The13ig13adWolf]

I still think it's best to try both ways and see which one works best. There is no one right way, it's what works best for you

i agree. for the record, i don't recommend rice cakes outside of the PWO period.

 

[Jodi]

There is nothing wrong with skim milk or the low carb skim milk. Why can't you drink milk?

Here is a good list of other carbs

Sweet Potatoes
Yams
Long Grain Brown Rice/Wild Rice
Old Fashioned Oats
Scottish Oats
Fresh or Frozen (w/o syrup) berries
Fruit
Whole Grain Bread
Fiber One
All Bran w/ Extra Fiber
Uncle Sam Cereal
Whole Grain Pasta
Lentils
Legumes
New Potatoes
Red Potatoes
Pumpkin
Squash
Turnip
Sprouted Grain Bread