I am trying a bit of a new diet. Nothing official, I'm just lowering my carbs and ramping up my protein. I'm going from probably 70% carbs to 25%. Anyway, what will eating a lot of chicken, eggs, almonds, peanuts, etc. do for my body? What does protein actually do and what are the effects running wise? Thanks guys!
You ever see that show "diners drive ins and dives," you'll probably end up looking like the people on that show. May not be the best for the running. If you care about your running carbs are important, look at the east African diet. No one got fat on rice and bananas.
What are you even talking about? Lol. What movie is that? You can train your body to adapt to burn whatever you feed it.
Mucus pus dairy wrote:
You ever see that show "diners drive ins and dives," you'll probably end up looking like the people on that show. May not be the best for the running. If you care about your running carbs are important, look at the east African diet. No one got fat on rice and bananas.
1/10.
It depends a lot on how many mpw you run.
Whatever I feed it......how about laundry detergent?
Your running will suck for a while until your body adapts.
How exactly will my body adopt? I'm running 55 mpw right now, i will work my way up to 90 by late August. Protein speeds recovery, yea?
Don't make carbs 25%. You will kill yourself.
hey wrote:
Don't make carbs 25%. You will kill yourself.
You will die whether you eat 25% carbs or 75% carbs.
But high carb diet makes you scrawny fat, low carb diet makes you buff.
This is a complicated issue. First how many grams of carbs are we talking about? Percentages can be highly misleading.
Also, how much protein and fat are we talking? How much protein are you taking in now? (My guess is you have no idea). There is little evidence that more than 2 g of protein per kg of body mass is needed although if you are going low carb that might change things. Going too high can present other problems if you have an underlying kidney issue.
Also your body might have trouble taking in more than about 30 g of protein in one sitting or meal.
The first two weeks on this potentially low carb diet you are likely to feel like crap. The body adjusts after that in most cases, but typically folks up the fat.
Your body can adjust to burning fat during exercise and it can make glucose from some proteins like alanine, but it is a messier proposition.
Once you are adjusted to the low carb you may be in a ketogenic state. This might not be so bad if you are really overweight. I will predict that even after adjusting you are going to find your faster pace runs much harder to do. Your long runs likely will also slow although they might not slow enough to matter.
To run fast, I think you need carbohydrate (stored as glycogen). Whether 25% (again the percentages can be very misleading) will give you sufficient carbs depends on your training and just how much in actual grams per kg body mass that it.
carbs is best for me, but crave peanuts after a run
Nutritional trends as a whole are the biggest bs of our time. Eat whatever you want, it doesn't matter, your body will adapt to it. There's a reason why medical students don't need to take a single nutrition class. Leave the dieting fads to the middle-aged housewives.
luv2run wrote:
This is a complicated issue. First how many grams of carbs are we talking about? Percentages can be highly misleading.
Also, how much protein and fat are we talking? How much protein are you taking in now? (My guess is you have no idea). There is little evidence that more than 2 g of protein per kg of body mass is needed although if you are going low carb that might change things. Going too high can present other problems if you have an underlying kidney issue.
Also your body might have trouble taking in more than about 30 g of protein in one sitting or meal.
The first two weeks on this potentially low carb diet you are likely to feel like crap. The body adjusts after that in most cases, but typically folks up the fat.
Your body can adjust to burning fat during exercise and it can make glucose from some proteins like alanine, but it is a messier proposition.
Once you are adjusted to the low carb you may be in a ketogenic state. This might not be so bad if you are really overweight. I will predict that even after adjusting you are going to find your faster pace runs much harder to do. Your long runs likely will also slow although they might not slow enough to matter.
To run fast, I think you need carbohydrate (stored as glycogen). Whether 25% (again the percentages can be very misleading) will give you sufficient carbs depends on your training and just how much in actual grams per kg body mass that it.
Wow, much more complex than I thought. I haven't kept that meticulous track of my diet.
like someone said above don't do percentages. and also no need to make such drastic, fad-like changes. Most runners I know don't eat enough protein. You could simply start by increasing the amount of protein you eat. Using the 2g per kg of body mass, which is pretty reasonable, will mean you need like 120g of protein or so, which is like 1.5 lbs of chicken breast each day or close to 1 package of chicken breasts each day. That's a lot to eat and takes effort.
It doesn't take a PHD or degree in medicine to understand that protein is essential to running. Our muscles are built on protein. A quick search of scholarly articles pulled up this quote:
"Therefore, athletes need to ingest protein following exercise to attain a positive protein balance and maximise their skeletal muscle adaptive response. "
In addition to increasing your protein intake you should get rid of all processed carbs.
no real effect wrote:
carbs is best for me, but crave peanuts after a run
That'll be salt cravings rather than protein.
White Fox wrote:...Also your body might have trouble taking in more than about 30 g of protein in one sitting or meal.
heyyo wrote:
... Using the 2g per kg of body mass, which is pretty reasonable, will mean you need like 120g of protein or so, which is like 1.5 lbs of chicken breast each day or close to 1 package of chicken breasts each day.
Last time I checked, there are about 28.35 grams/ounce. So, 30 g of protein is barely more than an ounce of protein to take in. Correspondingly, 120g of protein is only about 4.2 oz. , which is considerably less than 1.5 lbs. The average runner should do fine on about 4-6 oz. of protein per day.
math is hard wrote:
White Fox wrote:...Also your body might have trouble taking in more than about 30 g of protein in one sitting or meal.heyyo wrote:
... Using the 2g per kg of body mass, which is pretty reasonable, will mean you need like 120g of protein or so, which is like 1.5 lbs of chicken breast each day or close to 1 package of chicken breasts each day.
Last time I checked, there are about 28.35 grams/ounce. So, 30 g of protein is barely more than an ounce of protein to take in. Correspondingly, 120g of protein is only about 4.2 oz. , which is considerably less than 1.5 lbs. The average runner should do fine on about 4-6 oz. of protein per day.
What is an average runner? Lol there are so many factors and variables that differentiate people
Why do people crave salt?
math is hard wrote:
White Fox wrote:...Also your body might have trouble taking in more than about 30 g of protein in one sitting or meal.heyyo wrote:
... Using the 2g per kg of body mass, which is pretty reasonable, will mean you need like 120g of protein or so, which is like 1.5 lbs of chicken breast each day or close to 1 package of chicken breasts each day.
Last time I checked, there are about 28.35 grams/ounce. So, 30 g of protein is barely more than an ounce of protein to take in. Correspondingly, 120g of protein is only about 4.2 oz. , which is considerably less than 1.5 lbs. The average runner should do fine on about 4-6 oz. of protein per day.
You're assuming that the chicken breast is100% protein. Approx. 4 oz of lean meat (about the size of a pack of cards) gives you about 30 grams of protein.