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Najakcharmer -> RE: how many times a day (5/29/2006 12:16:23 PM)
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I try to get in 5-6 meals a day, several of them being protein shakes, with the timing and composition of them depending on my workout schedule. Typical "carb up" pre-workout meal for me would involve a few tablespoons of raw oats mixed with 1/3 cup of nonfat cottage cheese, add Splenda and chocolate protein powder to taste. Post workout is 1/3 cup of tuna mixed with a tablespoon of flax meal, spiced up wth some hot sauce. Protein powder, water and possibly some glucose might come in mid-workout if I'm lifting heavy and feeling glycogen depleted. Breakfast looks pretty similar to the pre-workout meal, dinner is a piece of meat and some veggies. Maybe a piece of cooked sweet potato after a heavy workout, but usually the evening meal comes in under 10 carbs unless it's a very heavy lifting day and I still feel seriously glycogen-depleted after a post-workout glucose hit. Oh yeah, and a buttload of vitamins, essential oils, etc. Snacks generally involve nuts or berries or both.
I'm currently doing a ketogenic cutting cycle (as per UD2 and Lyle McDonald) so's I can get a better look at some of the muscles I've been working so hard for. So keeping glycogen refilled in muscle tissue without spilling over to glycogen storage in the liver is basically what I'm titrating for, otherwise staying glycogen-depleted in a ketogenic/catabolic state.
Eating sort of sucks when it becomes a science experiment, but the results are nice to look at and feel pretty darn good from the inside.
Off to bang on the weights some more after sucking down some tuna and flax enlivened with hot sauce. Mmmm, mmm, good. Well, not really, but it's quick-absorbing protein so I'll throw it greedily into my face hole to fuel the next workout.
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