Sounds like it’s time for a very big egg white omelette.
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I’m starting to feel like the big kid over here while you guys are all talking about the benefits of all of these things and I’m just weighing up how delicious it all sounds.
1300g of egg white. That’s… 39 egg whites
I wonder how insulinogenic that’d be. Egg white is rapidly digested. And that has to be a lot of leucine.
If you go the drinkable route, that’s just 5 cups of egg whites. Child’s play really.
I suppose you could mix in protein powder, if you wanted to cheat.
I don’t have that cooked egg white thingsmajig you have access to. Pasturized, presumably, but the bioavailability in the drinkable liquid egg white canisters here I’d imagine is less than if it were cooked.
I’m not sure if I’m normal or if you guys are just weird or if it’s the other way round, I have no idea what macros make me the most satiated, I just eat my foods and enjoy them, I very rarely get stuffed full but also not often really hungry.
I also could hazard a guess as to my muscle fibre dominance or any of that jazz. Funny thing is when I was in my 20s I read stuff like that and devoured it, then I went away from lifting and when I came back I could never be bothered to put the mental effort in. In fact I get better results from training now, probably because I don’t question stuff I just do it. Not to say that for others it isn’t important and valuable and positive, but I’m just not that smart haha.
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I’m definitely my own enemy in the kitchen and the weight room. So, you’re normal I guess. I just have certain problems to overcome. Don’t really think it’s a question of smart or not. Or weird/normal really.
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I found this information and chart in the article “Fueling Based on Muscle Fiber Type,” on the Hungry For Results blog.
“Many athletes think that doing more volume = more carbohydrates and that more volume = more slow twitch muscles. However, this is a huge generalization. If you are an athlete that does not burn carbohydrates at a high rate, fueling with them might not be a great strategy to improving performance. On the flip side, those who burn carbs at a very high rate might not be able to adequately replenish those stores without compromising fat and protein intake. Those athletes might be better off implementing ‘training low’ sessions to improve fat burning and take the reliance off carbs. Take a look at the chart below to see where you fit and if you need to rethink your fueling strategy.”
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Holy cow that is awesome! Great find. Mirrors what I have been thinking.
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From sciencedaily . com
Endurance athletes who ‘go against the grain’ become incredible fat-burners
The study, the first to profile elite athletes habitually eating very low-carbohydrate diets, involved 20 ultra-endurance runners age 21-45 who were top competitors in running events of 50 kilometers (31 miles) or more.
“These low-carb athletes were spectacular fat burners,” said lead researcher Jeff Volek, professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University. "Their peak fat burning and the amount of fat burned while running for three hours on a treadmill was dramatically higher than what the high-carb athletes were able to burn.
“This represents a real paradigm shift in sports nutrition, and I don’t use that term lightly,” he said. “Maybe we’ve got it all backwards and we need to re-examine everything we’ve been telling athletes for the last 40 years about loading up on carbs. Clearly it’s not as straightforward as we used to think.”
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The article goes on, talking about how carb loading became a fad after they learned about muscle glycogen in the '60s. And how in the lately more people are rethinking.
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This is quite a complex area that has not been well studied, in my opinion, and is prone to a lot of confirmation bias from those who have studied it.
The bottom line is that all energy is ATP. As per your citation, free fatty acids will be converted into ATP. Now, the theory goes that once physical exertion goes beyond a certain threshold, e.g 70% V02 max, it becomes glycolitic. This has led to a jump in reasoning that the body therefore prefers carbs for higher intensity exercise.
Now science has also well established that glycogen can be synthesised through other mediums, e.g recycling the glycerol backbone that binds those same fatty acids. This should not be a surprise because from an evolutionary perspective, how else did humans perform high intensity activities pre-agricultural revolution?
Finally, though continually debated, there is enough science to show subjects built muscle on very low carb diets. How did they achieve that? Through lower rep strength training alone? No, is the answer.
There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence showing many feats are possible on zero carb diets, even completely fasted but, as stated, this is not well studied.
From a completely personal perspective, I have done 2 a day’s on carnivore mixing up all kinds of intensities, and have not just coped but thrived, while simultaneously achieving excellence body recomposition.
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@FlatsFarmer and @JamesBrawn007 and everyone else: really appreciate the contributions. It’s been a fascinating discussion topic. Just cool to see all the various approaches out there.
Decided to let me dogs in on the insomnia fun and took them for a walk this morning while I wore my 45lb weighted vest. My dogs are 2 pugs, ages 10 and 13, so it’s a VERY low intensity walk. I did it fasted, because why not. I might spring for a heavier vest to make things a bit more challenging. Going to try to get in a deadlift workout today, and cram in a bunch of training over the next few days, as I’m moving to the night shift and things can get complicated there.
I’ve actually determined the dogs are a major contributor to my poor sleep: we had them kenneled while we were getting new floors in and I slept VERY well. When they’re home, they sleep in the bed, and basically wake me up all night.
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Volek ran a similar study using resistance training. The low carb group lost almost 2% more body fat than the low fat group. The interesting point for me was some of the individual responses to the protocol. One subject lost 20 lbs of fat and gained 9lbs lean mass. Another lost 19lbs fat and gained 12 lbs lean mass. The greatest loss was 30 lbs, and this person gained 9lbs LBM during the 12 week programme.
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Aha, finally a topic where I can shine!
To preface: this information comes from my wife, who has trained/worked with all kinds of animals most of her life, primarily dogs, but also cats, lizards, penguins, and even sea lions.
Most dogs, really, should sleep away from their owners. Personal space is a huge thing for dogs, as it helps establish hierarchy, which in turn helps reduce stress. Kennelling at night is one way to achieve this, as it gives the dog a space that’s wholly theirs; this basically becomes their “safe space” when done properly. Hell, we even kennel our cat at night without issues.
I/we almost always recommend having pets sleep in a kennel at night.
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You need to pass all this on to my wife, because she made the decision to let them sleep in the bed while I was away at work and then it became a lifestyle, haha. I would never let a dog sleep in my bed if given the choice.
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Yeah, it really isn’t a good idea. One other big thing it can lead to is hardcore separation anxiety. If your dogs (again, even cats) are always around you, they don’t develop the tools to self soothe on their own. This is another thing kennelling can assist with: the dog knows you’re still present in the home, but they have to deal with the minor stress of not being around you while they’re kennelled, so they eventually learn to calm themselves down.
Especially a pug. ESPECIALLY TWO PUGS. Even when they’re awake they sound like a diabetic with sleep apnea. I cannot imagine sleeping next to those snot engines.
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Yeah, they handle the kennel well. The male was good too, but we got the girl later and she had issues.
The snoring is like white noise actually, haha. It’s the scratching and licking that wakes me.
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I’m also enjoying the image of a jacked dude walking at like 0.5MPH with a weight vest and two old pugs at the crack of dawn.
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