Well, my commute home from work is about an hour and I go straight to the gym so I need something substantial to get me thru my workout before heading home to eat dinner.
Thanks for the input and explanation, brother ā very much appreciated. Iām gonna tinker with slowly increasing. Those mind games with fat gain are very real! Psychology can play such a massive role in body recomp.
What are some of your favorite low GI sources? Go-to carbs throughout the day?
Whole milk has both carbs and fats so I dont add anything
Just looked up the Lactaid label ā looks like 13g C per cup. You do more than 1 cup, I presume? Whatās your go-to whey? Iām always playing around with different preworkout concoctions and seeing how I feel while lifting.
Edit: no caffeine/preworkout drink besides the shake?
I like Optimum Nutrition
Probably, I dont measure
Sometimes I add coffee to my choc shake for the mocha taste and the caffeine. The wife and I also do a frozen fruit (of your choice) and an appropriate low sugar fruit juice blended with vanilla whey in the mornings to take on the road.
I second Optimum
@studhammer I like ON and was buying it for a long time, as itās a really good value. My go-to lately has been True Nutrition, which is very natural and still pretty affordable. But honestly, I havenāt been doing very much whey at all. Iāve been trying to prioritize more natural sources of protein like chicken breasts and turkey. A chicken breast thatās cooked up on the grill with some low-sugar BBQ or honey mustard is truly an exceptional snack.
I agree 100% and i eat all that all day long but schedules and the summer heat make me want to have something cold, hence the shake. I pretty much love all meat and mixed with rice or potatoes, it becomes one of my at work meals.
If you dont have one already, think about an electric pressure cooker. They are awesome for cooking meat and pushing the flavors of the meat into the veggies. Makes meat super tender too.
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I usually only use whey post workout although I have been using pre also lately.
@studhammer love using the insta pot. Throw a package of chicken in with seasonings, shred it up and I am set for most of the week
Yep and cook up some rice in chicken bouillon and tupperware it all togetherā¦good to go
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Sounds amazing for meal prep. You guys have a recommended product in particular?
Instant Pot is the brand i use.
Thing is awesome, can cook a pot roast with potatoes veggies and all in like 40 min or something lile that, still tender and moist.
Mine is a Cuisinart Electric Pressure Cooker
Some of my favorites are oatmeal, sweet potatoes, Daves Killer 21 grain bread, brown rice, and spring mix salad.
For High GI, itās usually white rice, regular potatoes, dextrose powder, noodles, dark chocolate, or a commercial protein bar (they usually have some added sugar).
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Great stuff, and I eat a lot of the same. I donāt love brown rice because itās rough on my stomach (GI distress) and noodles because they make me inflamed, but I eat all the others. Have you messed around with sourdough bread? I also love Tumaroās low-carb wraps. Theyāre only 60 cals apiece, so Iāll throw back a couple with some deli meat and veggies for an amazing snack.
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I love sour dough and Iāve rad somewhere that it doesnt raise blood sugar
Me too, brother. Itās supposedly the healthiest of all the breads out there due to the fermentation process. I donāt understand the science, but Iād love to believe thatās true!
Edit: only issue is that itās ~150 cals per slice. If Iām having two slices, thatās obviously 300 cals, and Iād generally rather use those carbs on something like oats or rice cakes.
Gotta give a shout-out to @bmbrady77 for his observation about Recovery Purgatory. I have taken this week off of training my legs (have still been hitting 10K steps a day), and they feel way better! Not fully recovered, but I can finally bend over to pick something up without groaning like a 90-year-old man.
I am planning to take next week as a full deload. Iāve still been doing upper-body work this week, but Iāll take 7 days off altogether after an epic lift at Montanari Bros. tomorrow. I think Iāll probably keep hitting 10K steps a day next week, just to maintain some level of activity and keep my energy up. Itāll be hard enough staying away from the lifting 
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No it works and is part of that muscle confusion we want.