BIG CHEAT meal - will R-ALA/ALA minimize fat storage?

[fitwizard]

Ok. Today was my cheat day, and hell I screwed things up with eating a huge 3000 cals meal full of those sweet tasting sugars, chocolates and bread. It was mainly a simple carbs and saturated fats meal.

I gotta add that in the last 24 hours prior to the cheat meal I ate just about 50 carbs total, so I guess I was fairly depleted.

The cheat meal was at my office so I didn't have my R-ALA around (left it home). I only had regular ALA. So I took right after the meal about something like 1300mg of regular ALA.

Can it minimze fat storage? Since the meal was full of fats, I guess it can also transport the FAT more efficiently to adipose tissues and not just carbs ?!?

 

[FREAKZILLA1]

haha. i did some shit like that once or twice.....eat like a pig for no reason out of the blue, and your R-ala is at home. luckily i work at (and work next door too when not working there) a GNC. so i grab a bottle of 100mg ALA and do like you did. take like 1 gram or more. lol. but yeah, i am under the impression that it is taking care of all the sugars and carbs....those are the real menace since they spike insulin. could be wrong though (never a good idea to pig out on fat and carbs same time, but what fun is it otherwise???), sounds feasible to me....so i usually only take R-ala when i pig out really bad myself....since i don't eat much carbs anymore as a general rule except post w/o.

 

[lonewulf]

I think you are worrying too much. I do this once a week, and i think it is fine as long as you arent contest dieting. I sometimes take my r-ala before cheat meals, i sometimes dont. For me fridays are a "free" day of sorts, where i dont have to worry about bodybuilding. I usually try to get my protein in, and i eat anything i want within reason. Usually 2 big meals, and some snacks along with my protein powder. It makes a world of difference as far as keeping determination up the other 6 days, and it satisfies cravings.-WULF

 

[FREAKZILLA1]

I think you are worrying too much. I do this once a week, and i think it is fine as long as you arent contest dieting. I sometimes take my r-ala before cheat meals, i sometimes dont. For me fridays are a "free" day of sorts, where i dont have to worry about bodybuilding. I usually try to get my protein in, and i eat anything i want within reason. Usually 2 big meals, and some snacks along with my protein powder. It makes a world of difference as far as keeping determination up the other 6 days, and it satisfies cravings.-WULF

yeah, once a week works good. fills up your glycogen stores and fills you out visually. like you said, make sure to take in your protein as usual though. thing that sucks is this......its like maybe that day your not really hungry, you know? so what i do is more of a cheat meal or two each week. some day i just get that feeling like i'm gonna faint if i don't eat half that chocolate cake and milk...then i do it. so long as its like twice a week (one meal each time only), i feel its the same as a cheat day once a week. drinking all that whey and flax keeps me full usually anyway. either way works though.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

the difference is that
ala=same or increased insulin levels
r-ala= decreased insulin..

while ala may help r-ala will be significantly better in stopping fat gain from cheat meals due to its impact on insulin (this has been widely noted among users..)

 

[OXANDRIN]

just yak after a big meal....save the r-ala for carb meals with god stuff

 

[sk*]

just yak after a big meal....save the r-ala for carb meals with god stuff

HAHA

-sk