it is not necessary to take ALA post workout, your body is in dire need of CARBS to replace glycogen post workout and can actually transport glucose very efficiently without the need for excess insulin (there is an insulin like pathway that is activated after intense exercise)

Here's an analogy of what I'm speaking of:
Imagine a car production assembly plant. They make Geo Metros. The workers are paid hourly rather than on quota.They can produce a thousand cars a day. All of a sudden the management decides to start producing high quality Ferraris. Since this car is infinitely more complex than a Geo Metro, no longer do the workers push out a thousand a day...but now they only make 50 per day...since they don't make any commision, they don't have any incentive to work harder. So the end result is lowered output of production by virtue of time spent paying attention to detail.
In this analogy, the workers are the mitochondria (energy production parts of cells). The plant is like your metabolic rate. The cars are like the energy output. As long as the basic rate of work is unchanged, the only thing that is affected is gross output. Those who do well on low carb diets are simply able to do so because their energy producing parts of the cells are not working any harder, but only having less materials to work with.

As far as taking Alpha Lipoic Acid, it's a great agent for getting the lactic acid out of the muscles and reducing the normally inefficient manner of muscle recovery and regeneration. It does this by improving the efficacy of Vitamin C in the body. Vitamin C can reduce lactic acid at certain times of the day and post workout is no exception. Since ALA improves the Vitamin C effective ratio, then it also must be surmised to reduce cortisol buildup---since one is a definite factor of the other.

But if fat people are using fat for fuel then why are getting fat? This seems to be due to the fact that they don't effectively process (oxidize/store) glucose. Because they don't use glucose properly, the body elevates fatty acids to be used for fuel, but this unfortunately increases insulin resistance. So, while the body is using fat for fuel it is also converting glucose into fat in the liver and storing it.

As for simple glucose management, then I think that an initial front-loading would or equal dosing pattern. For front-loading, one could take 400mg in the morning with a meal, and then two more 100mg doses with subsequent meals. This would ensure high blood levels and then the later doses would maintain high blood levels. The second choice is simply 200mg with three meals.