Glycerine

[Him1]

I started my moderate-to-low carb diet last week, and I generally have one bar and 2 shakes, but, as many as 2 bars a day while dieting. Without giving me the cons of bars b/c I know them, but, I find them convienent and good tasting, could you tell me( for those of you who track your Protein/carbs/fat) if you count glycerine in your overall carb count? I always have; but, since it seems that it really doesn't have much of a blood sugar impact, I'd consider not counting them. What do you guys do? The main problem comes if I do not include them, then my calorie count gets fucked up.

My diet plan is something like this

275-300g protein/day

app. 200g carbs/day(almost half coming from post w/o meal, and the rest from mrp's and glycerine)

40-60g fat/day.

75 mg. Tren/day

.5 mg/ Liquidex/day

600mg-1g ALA w/ post w/o meal

multi+vit c+ blah, blah, blah

 

[kronk]

I never count it as it has little to no impact on blood sugar levels. Most products that say they are low carb are no carb dont even count it on their label. You are solid not counting it in.

What is your post workout meal? For me it is 60grams of Whey and 75-100mg a Dextrose. Make sure that you are doing something simular to replenish your glycogen stores.

 

[Him1]

I use a calculater to figure the glycerine in. As for the post w/o, I don't get 60g of protein, I get around 40, and usually between 60-80 carbs. The type of carbs depends on the week, I get bored w/ the same stale shit every week. Sometimes it's Ultra fuel( if it's on sale, and sometimes it's Supplement Direct's dextrose, gatorade, and yes, every now and then I'll buy phosphagen hp, lol, it's overpriced, but, I like the way it tastes.

 

[akrama]

Glycerine DOES have caloric value and should be counted

Glycerine does have caloric value and if you're monitoring your daily caloric intake and trying to keep it within a range, you're making a mistake by discrediting the calories from glycerine. Yes... Glycerine does not have an impact on insulin level. However, it sure does have calories and need to be taken in consideration with your total caloric intake.

I am following an ISO caloric diet and do count my glycerine calories as that is essential to fall within 1/3 ...1/3...1/3 ratio. If I don't count them, I would be off the scale and it's not an ISO diet any more.

akrama