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(drpierredebs @ May 26 2008,2:52)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">okay.
1. normally, grain based foods are energy dense and nutrient poor. veggies and fruits are the opposite. This is a big plus. think vitamins and minerals and fiber.
If you are no Carb, you have to eat fresh reindeer liver and the like and enough of it to get sufficient quantities of vit C for instance.
2. It is hard to eat enough veggies to get an overload of carbs and calories.
3. veggies are low glycemic and hence you don´t get the insulin rush. (the caveat is of course directly after training when you may want the insulin for growth and recovery, in this case fruits are the next best choice, followed by dried fruits which have a higher sugar content per weight.
4. Unless you just ran a marathom, very rarely does one need the 100 + grams of dense carbs coming from a plate of pasta or a pizza. Very often a Pasta dish as many eat for a meal or a pizza gives more than 150 grams of carbohydrates.
5. I won´t get into the Paleo explanation as I never really followed the strict paleo way of eating as I like sugar in my coffee, dark chocolate and salt on my eggs.</div>
Thank you for the reply. All those points are very clear to me, though by far #5 is the most interesting and least obvious.
I'm digging the grocery list as well. I think when I terminate this UD2.0 attempt in a few weeks, I'll try something along those lines. If nothing else, I can't say I've ever binged on fruit and veggies and felt crappy afterward, just as I can't say I've ever eaten grain based carbs without feeling crappy afterward. Makes sense.
So are you 'against' meal replacement powders, protein, glucose polymers, etc, for post workout?