Discussion: Must be the day

I had a little light headedness when I was working out on Wednesday...I think I didn't eat enough before...and had to end weights a little sooner than I had hoped. Lesson learned for me!

Yeah, me too! I am logging all my food right now, and I'm falling at about an average of 33% carbs. It's not that I'm cutting carbs, but veggies and fruits as main sources of carbs make you have a lot lower percentage than when eating grains. I think I may need to make an effort to eat more sweet potatoes - especially after intense workouts. I actually decided to bust out the Paleo Diet for Athletes last night to figure out what I was doing wrong. Not enough carbs right after workouts... I guess it doesn't do any good to limit food intake if you're not able to perform workouts to the full intensity/time.

Nutrition guru at Canadian o champs said always carbs after exercise.

Though I have not been hitting my macs personally, unless I mainline chicken I come up short on protein and am carb heavy. :/

Yeah, the crazy thing is that PDFA recommended a post-workout recovery drink that had something like 450 calories in it for anything over an hour or high intensity. That seems excessive to me if you're trying to lose weight. 450 calories of not-real-food? That's almost a quarter of my daily intake with no real nutrition/micronutrients.

What are your target macros, MrW?

I was unscientifically shooting for everything over thirty percent, not super worried about the last ten, but protein is sitting closer to twenty.

450 wouldn't be out of line in a maintenance phase if the regular calories were targeted to non exercise base rate. But in a cut phase? Egad!