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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2717936" data-attributes="member: 517579">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.</blockquote>

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