Quote Originally Posted by balance View Post
Good question RC!

I’m not sure if this is the correct answer but I will take a stab at it (if I’m wrong GH can hopefully chime in for clarification).

Basically I’m fairly carb depleted by the time I wake up. This means I may be going catabolic, which is not ideal for me. Why I am carb depleted you may ask? If you look above at my post detailing what I ate on my last training day my last real complex carb intake (not counting 1 cup vegetables at dinner) was at about 4:00pm. So other than one cup of vegetables with my 6:30pm dinner (cheated a hair with not an ideal carb as it was fresh pico de Gallo, so I ate a little less than 1 cup knowing this is less than ideal vegetable source, tomatoes based vegetable so there is some trace sugar involved). Now 14 hours later it’s breakfast time my body is looking for
easy fuel source. So this meal is approximately 1 hour prior to lifting so carb source ideally would be low glycemic like oatmeal, also helping to slow the digestion a bit there are the fats provided in the one whole egg consumed and cream from coffee (no sugar).

So going into training about an hour after this meal
I likely will burn through those carbs from breakfast (30 grams). Now what gets used to fuel the remainder of the workout and cardio post lifting? Well hopefully it’s fat. Now this is kind of how I believe this is designed to work. Is this exactly what’s going on I have absolutely no idea. However I can tell you this since starting this method of eating last Thursday I am definitely eating more than before. My muscles feel noticeably fuller yet my stomach is less bloated.

Something to note unfortunately I have been resorting to protein powder crap (it’s no carb) for my last meal of the day along with 45 grams of almonds (for my fat intake). The downside to this is that the powders likely don’t provide as much true protein to my bidy and it digests quickly compared to real meat. Overnight a slower digesting protein (like steak) would probably be ideal but by 9:30pm I’m not usually that amped to wolf down 9oz of real meat.
you are somewhat carb depleted in the AM but you are not fat adapted at this time. You are having carbs in 3/4 meals so you are not carb depleted. It takes A LOT to deplete your body of glycogen. Check out Lyle’s U2 diet.

Your diet is sound, just don’t believe what was written as far as burning fat during your workout when you have had carbs and protein before your workout.