Even under race conditions of high intensity athletes find the amount of
carb calories ingested is significantly lower and there is an absence of stomach and gut issues.
Not exact matches
The
carbs and proteins that you
ingest are metabolized and transported by water in the bloodstream, so if you don't drink enough water your body won't be able to properly use all the
calories you're consuming.
Research has found that those who
ingest whey protein at breakfast had bigger
calorie burning capabilities in the morning that those eating a meal high in
carbs, like cereal.
It doesn't matter what sort of macronutrient you're
ingesting — protein, fat or
carbs all have
calories and you need to count them.
Sweet potatoes are great for quickly adding
carb calories to your diet whilst at the same time
ingesting valuable nutrients.
A decent amount of organic butter, cream etc. will get you some extra
calories without having to
ingest too many
carbs.
If we assume he needs to
ingest a maximum of 2000
calories per day, it means he has 200 grams of
carbs left over (one gram of protein or
carbs has four
calories, and one gram of fat has nine
calories).
The prevailing suggestion among nutritionists is that approximately 50 % of the
calories you
ingest every day should come from
carbs.
The findings indicate that where your
calories come from can have a greater impact on your health than the sheer number you
ingest, and that basing a diet around fat might be healthier and more sustainable than loading up on
carbs.
I specifically wrote about grams, rather than
calories, as converting everything
ingested in
calories is deceitful; as proteins, fats and
carbs are also used as buliding material, and
calorie counters completly ignore it treating every piece of food as energy: it's like quantifying a wooden house by using joules, while you don't have an intention to burn it.
However unlike
ingesting carbs, protein, or healthy fats from a healthy food source, drinking alcohol gives you LOTS of
calories with very little micronutrients (the exception to this is red wine and dark beers, both of which do have reasonable levels of micronutrients and antioxidants).
Conceivably, you could eat a bite of food every 30 seconds (or whatever) and this will still work, as long as more
calories are
ingested towards the beginning of the day, and more fats happen first, more proteins second, and more
carbs at the end.
If you re-built your muscles with those 1,000 protein
calories, and you
ingest 400
carb calories (to replenish 100 of the «rebuilding»
calories and the remaining 300 burned glycogen
calories) you're up to 3,500
calories a day.