josh if you are hardcore cutting, ditch the potatoes. the glycogen issue is wayyy overrated for us non professional athletes. i eat them maybe once or twice a week and my BF is super low
I agree, I'm cutting hardcore now, and my only carb source is oats and veggies, no starch.
The plan wasnt really toward a hardcore cutting, more towards loosing fat while maintaining muscle and strength. The diet isnt really conclusive to an all out cut ALTHOUGH I was planning on what to do next and its looking like next month its going to be an all out balls to the wall cut for me
should be fun!!!
ditch the oats too, theres no vitamins/nutrients in there. its highly acidic and has a high GI. useless food.
Agree'd :fing02:
if you compare foods gram for gram on their nutritional content fruits and veggies will always win when it comes to all grains.
Oats have a high GI? That is seriously the first I've ever heard of that!
I've noticed that I've put on the most muscle when I eat more oats, more muscle than increasing anything else (assuming already high protein diet).
It just doesn't make sense to me, don't all the big bodybuilders pretty much eat oats as their primary carb source (and sweet potatoes)...?
From what I saw on the low end Steel cut oats rate 42 on the glycemic index, old fashioned rolled oats rate at 50. Some other sites have oats at 48, others sites at 58. Seems to be a wide range there.
I use just old fashioned steel cut oats post workout, so regardless of insulin spike or not, it's a good time IMO.
You seem to have a lot of info on different foods, a lot of restrictions for you. Are you strict paleo Anton?
This is because oatmeal is converted rapidly to sugar and if you consider ta most people make theirs with milk and fruit then your blood sugar spikes even more. One of the reasons why we are programed to believe oatmeal is a super food is because it has been shown to reduce LDL cholesterol, especially small LDL.
From a blood sugar standpoint a bowl of oats will elicit a somewhat similar response to if you had a candy bar for breakfast :nono:
From a health standpoint Oats are often contaminated with other gluten grains during processing and gluten grains cause leaky gut. Also the avenin protein appears to have similar effects to gluten.
As to why the bodybuilders do it, I would suppose it is because they are under the belief that they need to create a insulin response in order to take advantage of IGF-1. There has been some controversy over this as many believe carbs after a workout can blunt GH response and a GH response is needed for the release of IGF-1. Personally I dont know where I sit on this subject but I still consume around 60g carbs after my workouts. Another thing to consider is oats are cheap, low calorie, quick to eat (you can just toss them in a blender with a shake) and high fiber.
