cross post: calculate ChoGrms in body?

[ChefWide]

Sorry about the cross post, but I posted this to the wrong forum by mistake....

calculate grams of Cho* in body? (post #1)

I would love to know what the estimates are for stored grams of carbs by body weight... is there a method/system for calculating this??

I know that one gram of carbs is accompanied by 3 grams of water and once you go into deep ketosis (below 50mmol blood glucose) you have either shed or are in the process of shedding this carb/water weight... so that you could after time do the math and figure out how much of your normal diet body weight was occupied by carbs and their related water, but is there a reliable way to take an athlete and say " you weigh XXXkg and you have xxxxgrams of carbs and their related water in your system?"

whew, does that question make sense??

I am working on an application that calculates your daily req. of fats and proteins for a ketogenic diet and tracks your weekly progress based on body weight/body comp. test results and adjusts the numbers automaticly based on weekly test numbers...

but i need to know how much of the body's weight is carb and carb related water....

any takers?....


d.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

If you are going to undertake this endevour I hope you are going to make a signifigant amount of money from it, since it is going to be a very complex formula, and you will need to do hydrostatic testing, and a number of other tests and measurements on each test subject to get an accurate number. Also you will need to take into account the time of day, the acitivities they have done up to that point, and what they have eaten up to that given point in order to get anything close to an accurate number. Also if I recall its 3.4 grams of water to every gram of carbs. This number if going to vary GREATLY for two different people of the exact same hight and bodyweight, since people carry different amounts of muscle mass, and their muslces carry different amounts of glyogen, per oz, based on their genetics, type of training for that muscle, drugs used etc. In all honesty, once you get the number down, I don't think you will be able to find a useful application of it, that will help any athelete in the real world.

 

[Stryc-9]

once you go into deep ketosis (below 50mmol blood glucose) ...

It would be more like 50 or 60 mg/dl - which converts to something like 3 mmol/L

 

[ChefWide]

oops. Sounds like the variable that sends this project to the mat is the huge difference between the storage capacity of different body types, and muscle volume... will have to rethink this entirely.

thanks all for the help