Ig, decent race for your first HM. You make many assumptions, including that your glycogen reserves were empty or relatively empty. In fact, eating ample protein can fill your glycogen stores.
If you're happy with your lifestyle that is fine. For many, perhaps most, low-carb does not work very well for an active lifestyle. It seems you're trying to show something in general from an experiment-of-one. You sound a bit like an old friend of mine who's a vegan -- and far too religious about it.
I was impressed reading about Stu Mittleman's accomplishments, and the fact that he did many of them while eating controlled carb. So if you want to learn the extremes *one* person has taken a dietary change to, then read his book. That being said, it's not for everybody. What you're doing has been tried before by many, with many different results.
Ig, decent race for your first HM. You make many assumptions, including that your glycogen reserves were empty or relatively empty. In fact, eating ample protein can fill your glycogen stores.
If you're happy with your lifestyle that is fine. For many, perhaps most, low-carb does not work very well for an active lifestyle. It seems you're trying to show something in general from an experiment-of-one. You sound a bit like an old friend of mine who's a vegan -- and far too religious about it.
i turned vegetarian a few months ago. i eat tons of carbs. and i feel good too. it all comes down to what makes you feel good and is healthy in the long term. i really doubt if eating fatty north american meat is healthy. so i stopped. but i don't care what anybody else eats.
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Ig, decent race for your first HM.
Thank you.
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You make many assumptions, including that your glycogen reserves were empty or relatively empty. In fact, eating ample protein can fill your glycogen stores.
That's interesting and makes sense to me. Is there any way to measure glycogen reserves?
Pardon me, but could someone show me the pathway by which protein becomes glycogen?
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If you're happy with your lifestyle that is fine. For many, perhaps most, low-carb does not work very well for an active lifestyle. It seems you're trying to show something in general from an experiment-of-one. You sound a bit like an old friend of mine who's a vegan -- and far too religious about it.
I was impressed reading about Stu Mittleman's accomplishments, and the fact that he did many of them while eating controlled carb. So if you want to learn the extremes *one* person has taken a dietary change to, then read his book. That being said, it's not for everybody. What you're doing has been tried before by many, with many different results.
Thanks, I just ordered his book, out of curiosity. I hope that it will be entertaining. No doubt, "experiments on one" are usually not proofs of general concepts applicable to others. And yet, they can point out to interesting results.
Pardon me, but could someone show me the pathway by which protein
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glycogen?
Ok, I don't know this as fact. When I was experimenting with the Paleo diet myself, I read in several places (probably in different paleo and low-carb books) that when you eat excess protein beyond what the body needs, it will be broken down into either carbohydrates or fats.
Pardon me, but could someone show me the pathway by which protein
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glycogen?
Can't glucose from gluconeogenesis be an input to to glycogenesis?
Andrew
I thought about these questions overnight and realized a simple thing.
It is easy to verify if I am out of glycogen. All I need to do is to "carb up", without overeating calories too much, and drink water not to be thirsty. If I suddenly gain a few pounds, these can be assumed to be new glycogen reserves. So, if I carb up and gain pounds, then I would know that I was out of glycogen before that.
Now, what we do know is that gaining a few pounds after carbing up is typical for lowcarbers. Also it is typical to lose a few lbs upon commencement of an LC diet. It is that "water loss from Atkins" that is mentioned to disparage Atkins diet.
This makes me comfortably convinced that indeed, I was very low on glycogen prior to the run.
Yes this is highly possible, but also you're not attempting to lose weight on the diet. It makes sense to assume at least that your glycogen reserves weren't full.
