a few carb questions

[Kim2884]

Ok, I have been doing a CKD for the past 2-3 months or so, managed to lose about 3% body fat but I am going to start reintroducing carbs starting sunday until i end up at a diet consisting of about 1200 cals, and 40-30-30 ratios. (i'm 5'5, 120lbs at the moment...still wanna lose some more body fat..not too concerned with actual weight loss)...so i will be eating no more than 100g of carbs a day, and mostly low-GI except for post-workout. My questions are:

1. to reintroduce carbs, i plan to do about 50g next week, 70 the week after, 90 the week after, and possibly 100 the week after, or i may just stay at 90. will that be sufficient to prevent fat gain?

2. I am a college student, and my dining halls do not offer the best selection of low-GI, unprocessed carbs. I can always get fruit and sometimes brown rice so that's not a problem...but I wanted to be able to eat oatmeal or whole-grain cereal for breakfast. However, they only have instant oatmeal, which I believe has a higher GI than plain, out-of-the-canister whole grain oats...and I've heard mixed things about cereal being processed and refined despite the whole grain denotation. anyone have any other suggestions as to some good carb sources?

[painintheazz]

1) the slower you re-introduce the carbs the better, gives your body more time to adapt. Except when you come right off you can do a carb load because your muscles will soak it all up.

2) I like cereals, natural granola, all-bran, shreaded wheat and bran. IMO they are fine, I know they are processed and don't care they still have a lower GI value and the convenence outweights the fact that they have been processed a little. IMO unless you are competing they are fine and make your diet more enjoyable and liveable, which is what matters in the long run.

Pain

[Kim2884]

Thanx for the feedback...never thought I'd be so excited to eat some bran cereal

[painintheazz]

That is the way I felt after very low carb diets. Any carbs, even Bran felt hella good. haha

Pain

[bigsd67]

amen....can't wait to start re-introing carbs in a week