Should You Eat High Glycemic Carbohydrates Post Workout For Fat Loss?
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Post Workout Nutrition For People Who Are Overweight
On today’s episode of Live Lean TV, we’re answering a viewer question who asked, should you eat high glycemic carbohydrates post workout for fat loss?
Today’s viewer question is from #AskLiveLeanTV Ep. 020.
Here’s today’s viewer question:
sandraoledan from Snapchat says:
Hi Brad! One of your recommendations is to eat higher glycemic foods like bananas and sweet potatoes to post-workout. Does that mean the body is burning the carbs and not fat? Can we still be in fat burning mode?
Should You Eat High Glycemic Carbohydrates Post Workout For Fat Loss?
Brad: When you’re working out, you’re burning muscle glycogen.
Glycogen is the sugar that is stored in your muscles and liver.
Since you are burning into your glycogen when you’re working out, that’s why you need to eat carbohydrates.
These post workout carbohydrates go back in to replenish your glycogen storage levels, which helps to break you out of catabolic mode.
When I say catabolic, it means muscle breakdown.
When your muscle glycogen stores are full, you become more anabolic, which leads to building muscles.
That’s what you want to do after your workout.
Since the sugar is going back into your body post-workout, you now have the necessary space in your muscle and liver glycogen to fill back up, and not spill over into the fat cells.
Therefore, yes, you’re burning fat post-workout while still eating sugar.
In other words, you’re still in a fat burning mode.
However, in extreme fat loss cases, where you’re really obese, or you’re highly insulin resistant, having carbohydrates post workout are not necessary.
If your goal is body recomposition, where you want to burn fat and build muscle, but you don’t have that much fat to loss, then yes, focus on getting carbohydrates into your post workout, because you don’t want to be losing muscle.
The goal of body recomposition is maintaining muscle mass, as well.
Jess: The main reason for having your carbs post-workout is to assist you with muscle building, so that you can burn more fat throughout the day.
It’s not necessarily that you’re only burning carbs at that time.
It’s really more about the big picture of things.
As you know, to get lean you need to build lean muscle on your body, and that turns you into a 24/7 fat burning machine.
Therefore, don’t worry necessarily about when you’re burning fat or when you’re burning carbs.
Try to look at the big picture of it.
That’s the reason why we recommend carbs post-lifting, because it’s for muscle repair.
Brad: Yeah.
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