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Originally Posted by Lost Dog
The first bit is lost water, too. Typical when starting on a lower carb diet. But, I'm sure some was lost fat, too.
It's actually common with any calorie restriction. More noticable with lower carb diets, though. You outta get used to it and recover after a while.
Typically, the carbs are from a carb source mixed in with the protein powder. The easiest thing is Gatorade powder. All flavors taste good with vanilla whey. Orange tastes good with chocolate whey.
If you look at a supplement store, you can find maltodextrine or detrose pretty cheap (cheaper than Gatorade powder). You can mix either or both of these with your whey to get the right amount of carbs.
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Thanks for all your responses to my questions Lost Dog. It's helping me understand this diet a little more. I'm happy that the fatigue and weakness I am feeling today is a by product of the diet and will go away soon. I do have a couple of additional questions that came up during some online research tonight that I hope you could answer.
After you replied stating I should include Gatorade Powder or maltodextrine/dextrose with my protein pre/during/post workout I decided to do some additional research in order to determine which would be best.
1. Maltodextrine and dextrose are simple sugars, correct?
2. If they are, isn't it bad to be having sugars in this diet? Will it not affect the loss of fat?
3. Would 1 gram of maltodextrine/dextrose = 1 gram of carbohydrate?
4. I checked the nutritional information on 3/4 scoop (16.0 g)of Gatorade Lemon Lime and it said there were 15.2 g of carbohydrates with 14.2 of those grams coming from sugar (
http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/14131. html). Would you recommend going with the Gatorade or sticking with the pure maltodextrine or dextrose (money is not really an issue here as I don't think powdered Gatorade is that expensive) or are they pretty much the exact same thing (other than the fact the Gatorade powder would have additional ingredients)?
5. I looked at the other offerings and found a product called "Carbo Complex" (
http://www.pvldirect.com/products_carbo_complex.html) that contained 30g of carbohydrates in a 30g scoop and 0 carbohydrates were from sugar. Is this something to purchase or is something fishy going on with the nutritional information since no carbohydrates are coming from sugar?
Thanks again for all the help!