Hi everyone!!
I'm Amber, a Phase 1er at the moment! I'm new to the South Beach side of the forum and I have a question.
I run on Saturdays. I'm training for a marathon that's at the end of this month, so I'm running pretty far. This Saturday, is a "short" run of "only" 8 miles, and it takes me about two hours to finish. Before runs our coach tells us to carb up. I normally have some kind of pasta the night before and a bagel and a banana for breakfast Sat morning.
During the run we eat too. A power bar, pretezels, starbursts.
My question is: Will it hurt my Phase 1ed-ness to eat this many Carbs? As it is a "short" run, I can live with out the pasta and the starbursts. But I think the rest of it is pretty essential for me to have enough energy to get from point A to point B, but if it will be a major set back, I can try to hang with just the power bar while running.
I'd appreciate people's thoughts!