Hi Shadow...I have an update for you.. and ques

[Miss24k]

I love when you talk all technical Ulter!

Me too.....So HAWWWTTT

 

[ischia99]

Glad to hear you are seeing some of the results from the var!

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Here's a discussion about it that helps explain some: http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=393957&highlight=r-ala

RE: dairy, etc. YES GET RID OF IT! For the next 4 weeks you need to get your body down to only those things that are optimal. Anything with a lot of anything (e.g. sodium) that you arent' used to eating will cause a side effect like bloat. I'm 3 weeks post show and I'm still working on cleaning out eveything that affects me. Any extra amount of ANPB leaves me bloated for 2 days. Clear it all out!

Oatmeal -- I'm not sure what starchy carbs you are using right now - but since you have some time yet and you have a place in your diet for starchy carbs - I might suggest you run a little test. I'm sorry - I dont recall if you are carb cycling or what yet. But take each of the different types of starchy carbs you currently eat - e.g. oatmeal, yams, white potatos, cream of rice? -- Eat only one of these types on seperate days when you have starchy carbs in your meal plan. And then note how you look, how you feel during, at the end of that day, and the following morning. Then after you've done this with each of the diff carb types, see if there is one that is optimal for you - i.e. provides the best fullness, least bloat, least stomach ache, etc. And then use this as your starchy carb as you enter your last week or two of prep.

The science behind "oatmeal = water retention" -- never seen a study on it, but common sense says -- carbs like oatmeal, rice, cream of wheat, I guess even pasta (which I just stay away from in general) require water to be cooked in -- that means they are absorbing water. Particularly if you are at the point where you are needed to include water increase / decrease in your diet manipulation, that is additional water you have to account for and also get rid of. That then implies that a carb that doesn't require additional water to eat would be the more optimal way to go --e.g. yams or regular potatos.

Just another little side note about wheat-based stuff -- its estrogenic - this can also perpetuate water & fat retention (or non-optimal fat shedding).

Hi ya Sassy,

Thanks for the post I have been carb cycling for the past few weeks.. I dont really take carbs out completely I just switch them from the fiber carbs to starchy carbs and increase protein intake on the low carb days.. Today is a carb up day to I consume yams and a higher amount of oatmeal in my meals

Sunday I will unload again in which all starchy carbs are taken out except for my oatmeal in the morning and the 2 cups of strawberries I put in my whey protein shakes after post workouts!! I also reduce the amount of oatmeal from 1/2 cup to 1/3 and add spinach in my egg whites (a fiber carb). I take out yams and eat asparagus, spinach or broccoli and increase the amount of proteins.

The only starchy carbs that i had allowed in my diet the past 7 weeks were rice cakes, oatmeal & yams. I now took out the rice cakes and only use oatmeal and yams as starchy carbs.

Thanks for the link with the R-rala, i was curious about it for a while.

Okay all catch ya later!!!

Ischia

 

[ischia99]

To all of you who have posted!!!!!!!

You guys are the best!!!!

xxoxo
Ischia

 

[ischia99]

Hey guys,

I just bought the Glucorell-R and the yohaman-ES.. very excited to get a hold of this stuff!!!

Ischia

 

[*Bunny*]

Hey guys,

I just bought the Glucorell-R and the yohaman-ES.. very excited to get a hold of this stuff!!!

Ischia

You did the right thing...

 

[Sassy69]

Hi ya Sassy,

Thanks for the post I have been carb cycling for the past few weeks.. I dont really take carbs out completely I just switch them from the fiber carbs to starchy carbs and increase protein intake on the low carb days.. Today is a carb up day to I consume yams and a higher amount of oatmeal in my meals

Sunday I will unload again in which all starchy carbs are taken out except for my oatmeal in the morning and the 2 cups of strawberries I put in my whey protein shakes after post workouts!! I also reduce the amount of oatmeal from 1/2 cup to 1/3 and add spinach in my egg whites (a fiber carb). I take out yams and eat asparagus, spinach or broccoli and increase the amount of proteins.

The only starchy carbs that i had allowed in my diet the past 7 weeks were rice cakes, oatmeal & yams. I now took out the rice cakes and only use oatmeal and yams as starchy carbs.

Thanks for the link with the R-rala, i was curious about it for a while.

Okay all catch ya later!!!

Ischia

Kewl!

Just to clarify -- when I say carb cycling I'm only referring to adjusting the starchy carbs. Green leafy fibrous carbs are sort of "free" and they help keep the stuff moving through your system. Just out of curiosity, do you change your fat intake on the low carb days?

 

[ischia99]

Kewl!

Just to clarify -- when I say carb cycling I'm only referring to adjusting the starchy carbs. Green leafy fibrous carbs are sort of "free" and they help keep the stuff moving through your system. Just out of curiosity, do you change your fat intake on the low carb days?

Hi ya Sassy,

Yes on days that I carb deplete I add Flax seed oil to my shakes and use to have 1 tablespoon of ANPB but now that the PB is out i was thinking of either eating a few slices of avocado or adding a few unsalted raw almonds to my diet.. what do you think.. also on days that i carb deplete, I eat 3-4 oz. of tilapia twice a day along with my veggies.

what do you suggest??

ischia 99

 

[Sassy69]

I basically just replace the cals from the starchy carbs I'm removing with equivalent cals of fats -- usually almonds or flax oil. Fish is also valid.

 

[The Shadow]

Nothing to add.....great work team.

 

[ischia99]

Nothing to add.....great work team.

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