Depending on how
much glycogen you need to deplete (or the amount of carbs and protein you usually consume), you might feel lethargic and experience some keto flu symptoms during the Egg Fast.
I know that most people lose water weight along with their glycogen stores, but is it possible that I did not have
much glycogen to begin with?
If it can't find
much glycogen (because you're working out on an empty stomach), it is likely to break down your muscles for energy.
The human body can only store so
much glycogen, about 1800 calories worth.
The problem is, our muscles can only store so
much glycogen at one time.
When there's too
much glycogen, as there usually is unless you're habitually in a state of marathon training, the glycogen then gets converted into fat.
This is because you have not eaten anything for a fairly long period of time, so there is not
much glycogen (carbs) stored in your body, and as a result, you will end up burning more fat.
We can only store so
much glycogen in our body so the remainder is stored as fat.
Just don't go overboard with the carbs as too
much glycogen will be stored as fat.
Also, the exact amount of how
much glycogen you can store depends upon how much muscle mass you have and how intense your training is.
Not exact matches
Other benefits to eating this way... well paired up with my intermittent fasting — eating more fats allows me to exhaust my
glycogen stores
much faster and burn fat for energy on my runs / cross training / lifting days.
Note: Athletes generally don't burn
much protein for fuel during exercise unless their
glycogen (carb) stores are depleted.
Though the body's stored glucose reserve (
glycogen) is tapped into in order to bring things back into balance, extreme blood sugar lows can be too
much for
glycogen to effectively balance, and so the body is left screaming «MUST.
Carbs are actually muscle friendly nutrients that support your challenging workouts, provide good levels of
glycogen and
much needed energy to support your body «s functions.
In other words, doing aerobic exercise first exhausts creatine and
glycogen reserves without burning
much fat.
Doing aerobic exercise first exhausts creatine and
glycogen reserves without burning
much fat.
With that
much high intensity exercise, a meal contain carbs and protein would likely be ideal to replenish
glycogen stores and get recovery started.
The body does use protein to synthesize
glycogen, but only the bare minimum it needs for brain functions (neoglucogenesis is biologically expensive and inefficient) which really isn't
much.
This is going to give your body the chance to rid itself of as
much of its
Glycogen stores as possible.
I pretty
much exclusively drink either in the early, early stages of a meal or in the 30 - 60 minutes leading up to dinner, when I actually have slightly emptied liver
glycogen levels.
If you're consuming too
much protein, your body can also convert this to
glycogen.
With strenuous activity, though, the body can use up its liver
glycogen much more quickly.
Can you give me your advice on TOO
much protein, and how that can knock you out (because it is turned into
glycogen if it can not be used / stored)?
Working out with weights first helps you burn off most of your stored muscle
glycogen (or carbs) for energy so when you do get ready to do your cardio or interval workout you'll burn a
much higher percentage of fat
Some fructose may be converted to
glycogen and then to glucose, but some may be converted to fat and
much may be intercepted by gut bacteria.
This is all because too
much sugar (in the form of
glycogen from bad carbs) causes your body to store water and fat.
The liver is the only body part that can convert fructose to energy (
glycogen) and when there's too
much, some of the fructose gets converted to fat instead.
You see, what happens is when you consume too
much fructose, the liver
glycogen gets full and it triggers an insomatic process that tells the body to start storing the extra fructose as body fat.
By stage 2 and 3,
glycogen (stored sugar) provides
much of the glucose needed.
And so, if i need 50g dietary carb a day, if i eat 100g on one day and zero the next it wouldn't matter
much since my body would just draw from
glycogen, in the same way I can eat 50g of carbs at breakfast and none the rest of the day instead of around 15g carb at every meal.
If too
much fructose floods in too quickly then the liver can not convert it to
glycogen all at once, and converts some to fat instead, which gradually builds up in the liver.
Moreover,
much of that protein was fresh and raw, thus providing significant
glycogen (carbohydrate) from meat, another aspect that in no way supports a VLC, Ketogenic, or ZC diet.
I don't know
much about sprinting, but it's probably more a function of creatine phosphate than
glycogen during competition.
Your body just used up so
much of the
glycogen that was stored in your body.
There's way too
much reliance on glucose and
glycogen that's going on.
This is a
much more laborious process than
glycogen storage.
Because the biceps and triceps have a less overall volume of muscle fibers it doesn't require as
much stimulus to fatigue these muscle groups and deplete
glycogen stores.
Much of it is released from the liver into the systemic circulation to be stored as muscle
glycogen (3,7).
Even if the ingested carbs are at a moderate level (i.e. consumption of a grilled cheese sandwich, not an entire deep - fried birthday cake), your liver and muscles snatch up as
much glucose as they can take, including up to four grams of water accompany each gram of
glycogen.
As an example, geese eat a quantity of carbohydrate laden foods in the late summer and early fall which causes deposition of fat including a large deposition of liver fat and
glycogen, however, when they begin their migration this carb rich diet pretty
much ceases as they spend most of their day flying in migration.
Much of this glucose is converted into
glycogen for storage leaving a little glucose as substrate for new fat production.
If you already have enough carbohydrate stored in your body in the form of muscle
glycogen, the carbohydrate you eat in the hour or so before exercise might not make
much difference to performance, unless it is first thing in the morning.
Since there's not
much room for
glycogen, it produces fat.
This means there is not
much stored
glycogen (carbs) in your body to be used up for energy.
A 5 - hour refeed doesn't have as
much of a significant impact on leptin levels and other factors, but it still boosts muscle
glycogen and helps in some other ways.
This includes modern sports nutrition drinks as well as a higher use of whole foods such as yams and fruit that are high in carbs and can replenish muscle
glycogen much faster than other starchy foods which take longer to digest.
There isn't
much advice out there that relates to
glycogen stores etc..
12 pounds is a bit
much to be explained solely by muscle
glycogen.
So, I don't know how
much storage muscle
glycogen you're walking around with.
It is almost impossible for someone to more than guestimate how
much muscular
glycogen they would burn through with any particular physical activity pattern, but it is reasonable to say that a very active person could add another 300 grams of carbohydrate on top of the initial 100 grams.