I'm not a regular here, maybe I should be. I totally went off the diet and luckily avoided yo-yo'ing but my weight stabilized for a couple of months. I'm trying to go back on the diet, I definitely have my weaknesses, but I've lost 3 pounds in less than two weeks so maybe I'm on enough of a diet.
I ride a bicycle and I'm on a bicycling forum and they talk about foods before long rides. I don't understand how they keep from crashing and burning, blood sugar-wise. They talk about eating lots of carbs before a long ride, which to me sounds like the worst thing in the world.
I recently had my own "long" ride, I went from my 3 mile commute to just going out and ending up with a 13.3 mile ride, and I ate all the wrong things before it. Cheeseburger, fries and a soda. I was looking for protein first, and I was tired of scrambled eggs and cheese, but I didn't want to prep a chicken breast, and I didn't want to fight the cats over a can of tuna, so I ended up being really bad and tossing a hamburger patty on the George Foreman grill, chopping up a couple of red potatoes and tossing them into the deep fryer and making a half liter of Sodastream. Better than going to a fast food place, but that was still a lot of calories and even more important, a lot of carbs. I figured the wheat bun and potatoes would have me crashing fast but I felt great the whole ride.
So for those who are actually knowledgeable about what foods to eat, rather than being like me and faking it as I go, how could I possibly eat a lot of carbs before serious exercise and not end up sick as a dog? I thought pure protein was best for sustained energy.
