The question is simple...or is it more complex than I think? Anyway, I find myself trying to decide between pretzels (0 fat, but simple carb) and triscuits (a little fat, but whole grain).
I notice in one of Bryan's sample diets for bulking (only 2,500 calories BTW) he mentions eating things like rice and potatoes...not things like BROWN rice or sweet potatoes. Is this another myth...that whole grain, complex carbs are converted more slowly by the body, thus allowing them to more readily be used for energy rather than converted into fat? How many of you are eating complex carbs, like whole grain breads and avoiding white bread?
Help me out here, fat free pretzels or whole grain triscuits? Oh, and if you want to make this into a discussion about fat, I'd welcome that too. See, I could have just said white bread vs. wheat bread...but the fat thing confuses me too. If something says it has 12 g of fat, but only 2 grams are saturated, is that a good thing, like the other 10 grams must be split between monounsaturated and polyunsaturated and therefore would be considered a good source of my omega 6 & 9 that I should be trying to get? Oh, the way this is relevant to the pretzel vs. triscuit discussion is that the triscuits seem like the obviously better choice because they are whole grain, but they contain fat. (3 grams, 0 grams of saturated fat) so the fat discussion might be a relevant part of the pretzel/Triscuit equation. But then again, like I said above, maybe whole grains are not the obvious choice, Bryan seems to advocate eating potatoes and white rice?
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Help,
Brak
I notice in one of Bryan's sample diets for bulking (only 2,500 calories BTW) he mentions eating things like rice and potatoes...not things like BROWN rice or sweet potatoes. Is this another myth...that whole grain, complex carbs are converted more slowly by the body, thus allowing them to more readily be used for energy rather than converted into fat? How many of you are eating complex carbs, like whole grain breads and avoiding white bread?
Help me out here, fat free pretzels or whole grain triscuits? Oh, and if you want to make this into a discussion about fat, I'd welcome that too. See, I could have just said white bread vs. wheat bread...but the fat thing confuses me too. If something says it has 12 g of fat, but only 2 grams are saturated, is that a good thing, like the other 10 grams must be split between monounsaturated and polyunsaturated and therefore would be considered a good source of my omega 6 & 9 that I should be trying to get? Oh, the way this is relevant to the pretzel vs. triscuit discussion is that the triscuits seem like the obviously better choice because they are whole grain, but they contain fat. (3 grams, 0 grams of saturated fat) so the fat discussion might be a relevant part of the pretzel/Triscuit equation. But then again, like I said above, maybe whole grains are not the obvious choice, Bryan seems to advocate eating potatoes and white rice?
?Help,
Brak
