Dietdoctor and exercise

[Paulgn1]

Hi, I'm seriously cutting my carbs at the moment and wondered if anyone has any experience with the diet doctor app/website. Feel like I need a structured program and that I should be measuring my protein and fat intake.
My biggest issue at the moment is random elevated blood sugars after Hiit. With cutting carbs my body is using glucose from my muscles as energy which I need to address.

 

[KennyA]

Hi, I've always found dietdoctor to be a decent source of factual information. I still use it fairly regularly. I didn't sign up to anything so my experience is limited to only the free-to-view stuff. There's also a structured low carb programme on the website that sponsors this forum, and again I have no personal exerience of it.

I know that some people prefer to measure everything, and if that's what works for you, then go ahead. I counted only my carb intake (~20g/day for nearly five years now) and let everything else sort itself out.

I'm really not sure that you can address your body using glucose from muscle stores. That's exactly how it should work. Are you maybe thinking of protein being used to create glucose in the absence of other sources of fuel?

The standard cycle is for carb to be digested to glucose, and that digested glucose to be used (first) to replenish stores (about a day's worth of fuel) in the muscles and liver. If you think about it, you don't have to eat before you're capable of doing anything. When muscles need energy, the fuel is right there - it doesn't have to transported first from somewhere else. Surplus glucose will probably wind up stored as bodyfat.

The liver will top up depleted muscle stores through adding its glucose stores to the blood, which is why you often see elevated levels after high intensity exercise- it's the liver replenishing the muscle stores. It happens to me, but my elevated BG will drop off sharply within minutes of stopping whatever it is. I'm also usually in ketosis so much of my energy comes from bodyfat via ketones.

 

[Paulgn1]

Hi, I've always found dietdoctor to be a decent source of factual information. I still use it fairly regularly. I didn't sign up to anything so my experience is limited to only the free-to-view stuff. There's also a structured low carb programme on the website that sponsors this forum, and again I have no personal exerience of it.

I know that some people prefer to measure everything, and if that's what works for you, then go ahead. I counted only my carb intake (~20g/day for nearly five years now) and let everything else sort itself out.

I'm really not sure that you can address your body using glucose from muscle stores. That's exactly how it should work. Are you maybe thinking of protein being used to create glucose in the absence of other sources of fuel?

The standard cycle is for carb to be digested to glucose, and that digested glucose to be used (first) to replenish stores (about a day's worth of fuel) in the muscles and liver. If you think about it, you don't have to eat before you're capable of doing anything. When muscles need energy, the fuel is right there - it doesn't have to transported first from somewhere else. Surplus glucose will probably wind up stored as bodyfat.

The liver will top up depleted muscle stores through adding its glucose stores to the blood, which is why you often see elevated levels after high intensity exercise- it's the liver replenishing the muscle stores. It happens to me, but my elevated BG will drop off sharply within minutes of stopping whatever it is. I'm also usually in ketosis so much of my energy comes from bodyfat via ketones.

Hi, thanks for your response, I think I'll give the diet doctor a go on a 20g carbs limit. I think it's very interesting how the body functions and I'm wondering how much I'm going to need to eat to put on weight. I'm pretty thin as it is and doing the Hiit 4 times a week certainly gets plenty of intensity minutes in but my weight is slowly decreasing.

 

[KennyA]

Hi, thanks for your response, I think I'll give the diet doctor a go on a 20g carbs limit. I think it's very interesting how the body functions and I'm wondering how much I'm going to need to eat to put on weight. I'm pretty thin as it is and doing the Hiit 4 times a week certainly gets plenty of intensity minutes in but my weight is slowly decreasing.

I am on ~20g/day (and have been for just short of five years) and do 3 or 4 strenuous one hour sessions a week.

I've found that fat loss and weight loss are not quite the same thing. I've been steadily shrinking although my weight has been the same for four or five months now : I interpret this as still losing fat but building muscle, which is good when you're up in the paint cards like me. This has happened at various points over tha last five years, most often in the summer, when I'm most active.

I guess you have to try it and see what works best for you.

 

[Paulgn1]

I am on ~20g/day (and have been for just short of five years) and do 3 or 4 strenuous one hour sessions a week.

I've found that fat loss and weight loss are not quite the same thing. I've been steadily shrinking although my weight has been the same for four or five months now : I interpret this as still losing fat but building muscle, which is good when you're up in the paint cards like me. This has happened at various points over tha last five years, most often in the summer, when I'm most active.

I guess you have to try it and see what works best for you.

Yeah, the muscle mass slowly increases. I've got a set of those scales that tell you bone, muscle, water, protein etc.
Plus increasing my fat and protein intake, just need to keep an eye on the levels. There's lots of information out there, I think I should be hitting 1.2 times my weight in protein.
Problem is there's that many different sources it's difficult to know which to follow.