Restrict daily carbohydrate intake on non-cheat days to 25 grams or less.
Not exact matches
When you
restrict your
carbohydrate intake to less than 50 grams
daily, you can still fit in plenty of nonstarchy vegetables, maybe some low - glycemic (meaning they don't bump your blood sugar) blueberries and other berries, and a small amount of non-gluten grains like quinoa (actually a seed and complete protein).
Keep in mind this is as a percentage of calories and because fats are over twice as much caloric density and very satiating when fat is consumed in a
carbohydrate restricted diet an athlete simply does not eat much and tends not to overeat so the idea many people imagine of a high fat diet does not fit the reality of how it is practiced
daily.
Because an instruction only to
restrict carbohydrate intake could theoretically create a diet containing any level of
daily energy intake from protein and fat, confusion exists among researchers and the lay public about what constitutes an LCD.
daily supplementation with digestive enzymes and probiotics, or special diets that
restrict sugar and complex
carbohydrates