low carb diets and PWO nutrition

[Colette]

Hello, I just joined this forum and I have to say that I've learned so much in the last few weeks.

Over the past month I've been making the transistion to a low carb diet - sort of an experiment really because the medication I'm taking makes me crave sugar day and night- which has led to weight gain. I'm finding that if I avoid sugars/starchy carbs alltogether I don't crave them as much.

However, I've been reading that it's important to have high glycemic carbs (along with protein) in a post workout meal to aid in recovery and I'm wondering how this would fit into a low carb diet. Now that I've almost broken my addiction to sugars, I guess I'm kind of scared/hesitant to add them back in. Any advice would be greatly appreciated .

[svd201]

Colette - Check out the "Adam's Diet" sticky at the top of the nutrition forum. It details how to incorporate PWO into low-carb very well.

[RobLL]

And check out Cassandra's input on this. The science is a bit unsure on the whole subject. A number of people say if you are trying to lose weight you do not have to have carbs pwo, and as I remember Adam would not disagree.

[Michael Roussell]

Check out this thread

Another low carb question... (Cass et al.)

[Colette]

Thanks for the advice!