Your diet.. What you eat when training and outside of competition?

[Jason 'J-Faz' Farren]

Just a heads up glucose and sugars can lower your immune system further, the worst times to ingest them is while you're sick.

Cheers Zog, still studying nutrition... always studying nutrition ;D

[Chris Herzog]

Follow that facebook page, you're sure to pick up some great info.


I hear "Hey, did you know..........?" about 2-3x a day.

[Josh Passini]

Low carb before tournies and whatever after.

I like your style.

[Kyle Spalla]

Follow that facebook page, you're sure to pick up some great info.


I hear "Hey, did you know..........?" about 2-3x a day.

Followed the page. I got high for the first time in about a year last night and ended up eating out at like three different places over the course of about 5 hours and one movies (which I bought more food at). I was like I need more knowledge on nutrition because I felt like shit this morning haha.

[gregory_burns]

My wife has multiple food allergies. She cant have egg yolk, or any form of gluten, corn or dairy. I have adopted her eating to save time shopping and make it easier to eat together so we are pretty much following a slightly modified paleo diet for about 2 months now. I started at 260 lbs and am now down to 237 and I expect this to drop even more now that I am back training again.

I notice that my energy level drops after the first hour of class. Anyone have a suggestion for a portable snack I can wolf down between the technical portion & sparring portion of class?

THC definitely helps for me both pre & post work out. I like a nice sativa pre and a strong indica after. I dont get the munchies so thankfully it doesnt affect my diet.

GB

[VicDorfman]

The most common problems guys on a low-carb diet complain of are irritability, fatigue, low energy, etc. 9 times out of 10 it's because the macronutrient ratios look like this:

protein: 60%
fat: 20%
carbs: 20%

When you cut carbs you MUST replace them with high quality fats (grass fed butter, fatty cuts of meats, coconut oil, eggs, etc.) and the ratio should look more like this:

protein: 40%
fat: 40%
carbs: 20% (mostly in the form of nutrient-dense greens like kale, chard, boy choy)

Tinker with higher fat intake and your energy/irritability problems will disappear and you'll retain all the benefits of low carb.

ref: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...-fat-diet.aspx

[miketubbs]

you are athletes, not bodybuilders. You absolutely need carbs, in the form of fruits, vegetables and whole grains/pulses, beans. NOT whole grain bread, pasta etc...but quinoa, millet, amaranth etc...lentils, barley, beans...

We had a guy fight last month, took him down 10lbs and back up 13 by fight time. He ate fruit, a ton of veg, small amounts of brown rice, quinoa, yam, beans and a little bit of salmon or chicken 1-2x day. Won easily, even had a green whole food smoothie and water the morning of weigh in. Was never hungry except just before weigh ins.