Hey Guys,
I got one more question here…
I’ve been trying to keep my carbs low (50g/day) for the past week and bringing my caloric intake up to maintenance level with good fats and proteins.
I’ve read that I should do a re-feed day once a week to provide a storehouse of glycogen.
Question is: what does such a re-feed day look like? Do I just go nuts with as many carbs in whatever form I like and just gorge? Or should I stick to simple sugars in fruit or simple sugars as in flour or junk food? Should I keep track of the calories and macro percentages as I normally do?
If somebody could give me an example of their “re-feed” day it would be great.
I’m hoping the answer will be something along the lines of ice-cream, pizza, bread, nutella, fruit, Kraft dinner, deep fried fish & chips, pancakes, syrup, Big Mac, did I mention french fries? Chicken nuggets…
Thanks.
[quote]DieSucka wrote:
Hey Guys,
I got one more question here…
I’ve been trying to keep my carbs low (50g/day) for the past week and bringing my caloric intake up to maintenance level with good fats and proteins.
I’ve read that I should do a re-feed day once a week to provide a storehouse of glycogen.
Question is: what does such a re-feed day look like? Do I just go nuts with as many carbs in whatever form I like and just gorge? Or should I stick to simple sugars in fruit or simple sugars as in flour or junk food? Should I keep track of the calories and macro percentages as I normally do?
If somebody could give me an example of their “re-feed” day it would be great.
I’m hoping the answer will be something along the lines of ice-cream, pizza, bread, nutella, fruit, Kraft dinner, deep fried fish & chips, pancakes, syrup, Big Mac, did I mention french fries? Chicken nuggets…
If you are refeeding only for glycogen replenishment then why would you hope to have foods high in fat like deep fried stuff? You want glycogen you need carbs, not fat. You also mentioned that you are currently maintaining? If that is correct you won’t need THAT many carbs on your refeed day. Depends on how much you weight but I would probably suggest 500-600 grams of carbs coming from good sources like rice, potatoes, oatmeal and maybe some pasta. Fruit should not contribute too much to your carb total on this day because of its inefficiency to replenish muscle glycogen.
Thanks.[/quote]
[quote]elusive wrote:
[quote]DieSucka wrote:
Hey Guys,
I got one more question here…
I’ve been trying to keep my carbs low (50g/day) for the past week and bringing my caloric intake up to maintenance level with good fats and proteins.
I’ve read that I should do a re-feed day once a week to provide a storehouse of glycogen.
Question is: what does such a re-feed day look like? Do I just go nuts with as many carbs in whatever form I like and just gorge? Or should I stick to simple sugars in fruit or simple sugars as in flour or junk food? Should I keep track of the calories and macro percentages as I normally do?
If somebody could give me an example of their “re-feed” day it would be great.
I’m hoping the answer will be something along the lines of ice-cream, pizza, bread, nutella, fruit, Kraft dinner, deep fried fish & chips, pancakes, syrup, Big Mac, did I mention french fries? Chicken nuggets…
If you are refeeding only for glycogen replenishment then why would you hope to have foods high in fat like deep fried stuff? You want glycogen you need carbs, not fat. You also mentioned that you are currently maintaining? If that is correct you won’t need THAT many carbs on your refeed day. Depends on how much you weight but I would probably suggest 500-600 grams of carbs coming from good sources like rice, potatoes, oatmeal and maybe some pasta. Fruit should not contribute too much to your carb total on this day because of its inefficiency to replenish muscle glycogen.
Thanks.[/quote]
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Well…I was hoping because I’m dying…but thanks for telling me what I “should” be doing…so sad…I was hoping to gorge…