Do you count BCAAs towards your calories/protein?

[newbie270]

Germaine zip it you obviously don't understand why he is asking the question. It is related to intermittent fasting and people who don't break their fast until later in the day.

 

[gjohnson5]

My understanding is that the FDA doesn't require counting them on labels because they are not considered macronutrients (individual aminos rather than protein). That doesn't mean they don't have calories or that they don't count as protein in your body. So I would count them.

a BCAA is NOT a macronutrient , so I agree.
But then again agreeing with you might make me an alter *rolleyes*

 

[caligirl85]

Do any of you actually follow the work of people like Alan Aragon, Lyle McDonald, Layne Norton, Eric Helms?

I do. I'm also familiar with leangains too. It's an interesting discussion and Germaine's views are very common in certain camps in the bodybuilding world.