Starchy food before bed is very important. If you're doing depleted you're gonna have a hard time falling asleep imo
I have a pretty low sugar diet. Pretty much all of my sugar comes from fruit, with ~10g a day coming from protein powder. I eat brown rice and whole grain bread in at least 2 meals a day, which combined with coffee means poop and gas around the clock Rarely eat potatoes or cereal. Maybe once a week each. I do get bloated early and often. The whole waking up looking "dry" and ab-y vs. 8pm looking like I added several percent body fat throughout the day. Guy I work with that does paleo / pescatarian 4 days a week said it was probably from eating fatty meat. food is different for everyone, etc etc but in his experience cutting out red meat = zero bloat. I drink a shit ton of water and take b-complex + green tea extract everyday so the bloating/water retention is kind of a head scratcher to me
This is so important. When you become fat adapted, you tend to experience no cravings, eat less, have more energy and sometimes you just feel better skipping some meals. All perfectly natural.
Your electrolyte balances are probably fucked up and you're eating grains, which are inflammatory af.
You are right. Everyone is different. Bodies respond differently and of course...genetics. Fatty meat could be it, or it couldn't. Same with your carbs.
I have the same issue. Fit as fuck in the morning, which is when I send out my nudes, and then by 10PM I'm spilling out of my pants like I'm on my period. Bread, because I eat a PB and J sandwich and water are what I imagine cause this. There's probably no way to eat 2500 calories of healthy food (aka a shit ton of stuff being packed into your body) and then not looking like you have gained weight by 8:00PM.
My resting HR is in the low 50's, not abnormal for it to be in the 40's for a night. I am by no means an elite athlete but consistently doing 4-12 hours a week of cardio has improved my resting HR somewhat. Also eating better.
Are you guys with bloats getting enough potassium? Nearly everyone doesn't get enough potassium and some are shockingly low.
I may try to move around my meals a little bit as an experiment. normally do some kind of breakfast sandwich, then a homemade chipotle bowl or chicken/rice at lunch, and veggies/lean meat dinner or some kind of really low carb high fat, ie - greek yogurt chicken salad on lettuce wrap. Probably keep breakfast the same Move the low carb/high fat to lunch keep dinner as veggies and lean meat would basically just remove ~75-100 carbs that I eat with lunch. Homemade chipotle bowl = 108c/5f/61p replace that with the chicken salad wraps @ 23c/35f/73p just messing around on MFP with this setup, and "snacks" of mixed nuts, banana, and a few tangerines = 164c/92f/252p for the day. (95c coming from the banana, tangerines, and protein shakes) as opposed to today which is pretty standard = 231c/57f/243p Guess I'll do this for a couple weeks and see what happens. as soon as I get done eating the mass-prep'd chipotle bowls
So much respek for this post. Getting more potassium has helped immensely. Better pumps in the gym, less brain fog, and lower blood pressure
Bananas are shit tier potassium food. - Spinach (cook it and its easy to get down) - Sweet potato/regular potato - Avocado - Coconut Water
I eat avocado's every day and spinach is my green of choice. 10oz of spinach wilted down with some olive oil or coconut oil and some salt is great. Heck, if people are sick of romaine lettuce, try spinach, or as I usually do, have spinach leaves and half romaine for your chicken Caesar salad types. I used to hate spinach but I forced myself to eat it by first swallowing that shit whole with water. Then my taste buds came around and I like spinach now. Pound out your chicken breasts and throw some spinach in there and roll them up. Good stuff. Edit: A good smoothie recipe for some 1/2 cup Fage/Greek Yogurt (Plain, full fat) 1/4 cup frozen blueberries 1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk 1 cup loosely packed spinach 1 scoop vanilla protein powder 1/3 cup ice I usually need to add a bit more almond milk than 1/3 cup but it comes out to something like: Macros are approximately 250 calories, 5+g Fat, 15g Carbs 30+protein.
I forgot tomatoes. Eat a big ass spinach, tomato, and avocado salad every nite for dinner drizzle w some vinegar and grapeseed oil and pink salt and just :
Bananas have something fucky with their PH and the way they're digested that they should be consumed separately from meals.
I used to make a shake with baby spinach, coconut water, an apple, and carrots. Maybe I'll go back to that for potassium. Eating spinach makes me want to throw my breakfast up all over myself.
Every time I cook spinach I mostly just get mad that I put a couple big handfuls in the pan and then some evil spinach elf comes and steals 4/5 of it when I'm not looking. Then, when I turn around, there are just a few random leaves in the bottom of the pan and the rest of it has disappeared.
I could never gain 100 pounds under the expectation I would one day lose it. Does sound fun to gorge myself though. Went back to logging my food. Doesn't have much impact on my meals but helps me cut down on snacking, especially on shitty stuff. Wish the FitBit app was as good for tracking as MFP.
For those that lift and run, do you do them consecutively or morning/evening? I have been trying to run after lifting but im usually too tired to do more than a few miles.
I just ate a whole container of Halo top red velvet But I had cauliflower crust pizza for dinner so I don't feel too guilty
Well, I ate a fistful of spinach and I'm not happy about it. Hope my potassium pumps are working better now fuck
Why do I feel more hungry after eating spinach than I did before eating it? What is this vile weed you've made me consume?!?
possible Insulin spike shuttled all the carbs in your blood into cells and now you're hypoglycemic ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)