Do any of you use cereal in your post-workout meals? I read an article by JB which said it’s OK for Post and was thinking of including it as part of my first post food meal after my shake…is any ole cereal brand good for post workout or only certain ones?
Snip, somtimes i will eat a low fat,lowest sugar i can find Granola if i am in a time pinch…the one I buy is from a store called Whole foods,and it can be bought in the bulk section.
I’ve heard smart start recommended several times, and I eat it as my PWO meal #2. Its not too bad, once you get past all the womanly advertising on the box.
Of course, I’d prefer me lucky charms.
In faith,
Sam
There are Protein cereals that are pretty bomb. I bet a quick google search would hook it up.
Why not have the Lucky Charms PWO? Is the goal not to have carbohydrates with a high insulin index PWO, along with protien?
I’ve been dieting for a good while now and have gotten from about 20% bodyfat to 10% bodyfat (using only a protien shake PWO…basically the T-Dawg diet without the PWO carbs and less frequent carb-ups - I tried it by the book and ended up adjusting it to where I was dropping fat and retaining muscle the best.) While in the grocery store picking up some eggs, I saw low fat chocolate milks and things of that ‘junky’ nature. I started to wonder if post workout junk food (no fat, high sugar stuff) along with protien would cause fat gain or short-change my recovery.
Anybody know why I couldn’t get by fairly well with ‘junk food’ PWO meals? I assume that it wouldn’t work because it just doesn’t seem ‘right,’ just don’t know why?
Chad Waterbury has recommended a low fiber, carby, low fat cereal for the second feeding after a workout. The first feeding is Surge or your own postworkout drink. You want a GI boost then.
I think people get mixed up because ideally you want a cereal with high fiber and low sugar, but not when using it after training, just for breakfast or whatever.
And the cereals with added protein usually add soy. Not good for men as all the t-mag articles have pointed out. Smart start has some soy I think but it’s not too bad.
cpa5oh, I believe snippdawg referred to the post-post WO meal (the one after the shake) - or did you snippdawg?
D.
For your second postworkout meal, try Honey Nut Cherrios.
According to Berardi’s recommendations I assumed it would be okay to have some simple or “junk” carbs during post…I’ve read that you can’t eat enought in the two hours post workout and that this is the time for simple carbs and high GI right? I’ve sometimes used swiss miss in a second post shake but figured cereal might be a better option…
Even so, Berardi’s recommendations indicate (from what I remember, gotta go read that stuff again) that P+C can be eaten up to six hours post workout and that the second PWO meal should occur 60-90 minutes PWO. The goal as I understand it is still to get an insulin response.
S
Yes I was referring to the post-post meal, the first post meal after the post shake.
Yeah does’nt Waterbury tell people to use Golden Grams i used to love those things…also what are people mixing the cereal with?I have been throwing it in water with vanilla protein powder…
Honeycombs and/or bagels for me. yummy.
Cpa5oh, Yeah I believe you do want a insulin surge and anything with a high GI would cause that - I guess even white bread would be good here, I don’t ever eat it but anyway…I always have my second PWO 30-60 min after my weight training sessions.
I have just begun to come off the T-Dawg diet and so right now I pretty much save all of my carbs for the hours after PWO.
Tony, do you have milk with the cereal? I would guess it’s best to eat it dry?
Also - do any of you guys use a PWO shake on cardio or energy system days?
Water, vanilla protein powder and cereal - that sounds interesting Dave. I’d love to get my girlfriend to try that one!
I would think eating it dry would be good, or maybe blending it with protein? Maybe mixed in to plain yogurt or cottage cheese (or both) with protien?
Just an FYI on the topic of cereal, a couple of companies have come out with low carb milk. I’m looking into them now.
One brand, Hood’s Carb Countdown “dairy beverage” has 3g per serving, 75% less carbs than regular milk, and more protein. It has no soy and is sweetened with Splenda. You can get fat free, low fat and chocolate milk. It’s been Atkins approved as well - if that means anything to you.
I’ll report more on this in the future at T-mag. I’ve really only just started to look into it. I tried some in my Fiber One cereal today and it tastes pretty good.
BTW, Fiber One is one of the few cold cereals I’d recommend (at least for non-postworkout) as the fiber content is super high (14g) and it has no sugar. Many so-called healthy, high fiber cereals actually only have a little more fiber than regular kiddie cereals and have sugar as the second or third ingredient. Read those labels.
As for post-workout cereal, frosted Cheerios work well.
Thank you for the advice Chris. I’ll give the fiber one and frosted cheerios a try and keep an eye out for that low-carb milk.
i like quakers 100% granola oats and honey. not much as far as ingrediants. was basicaly whole grain oats, honey and whey from what i remember. since i have been reading labels this is the only ceral ican think of that has whey in it, no SOY.
I use Fiber One cereal mixed with cottage cheese and strawberries in my fiurst meal following my post workout Surge.
Chris, I tried that milk also and thought it wasn’t bad. I didn’t get a chance to try the chocolate milk though.
Where are you guys buying this low carb milk?
Snip the powder,water cereal mix is actually pretty good,and the other day i tried it with chocolate powder mixed with granola that was’nt bad either…