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[Closed] Can you carb load with lager?

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Was checking the contents of my tin of carling,seems to be quite a high carb content,got me wondering.........!


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:28 pm
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You may well laugh but when me and some mates were weightlifting regularly about 10 years ago we always had our best workouts on a saturday morning when we had been out the night before....we felt rough as a bears arse but seemed to be as strong as an ox....we put it down to the huge amount of calories consumed in lager and kebab form from the night before.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:31 pm
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Yes, but be careful to get the correct mix of protein and fat from pork scratchings otherwise it all goes to waist.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:31 pm
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Lager? This is Singletrackworld.com! Real ale only, please. Next you'll be telling us you don't have a beard.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:34 pm
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I think so, my saturday and sunday bike rides are usually at a decent pace compared to mid week evening rides.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:55 pm
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I dated a diabetic... She said not. And she knew her carbs, Jesus did she know her ****ing carbs... Carbs this, sugars that, on and on and on... PITA.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 6:56 pm
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IIRC your liver spends most of the time converting the alcohol rather than dealing with the carbs.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 7:09 pm
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Yes, but be careful to get the correct mix of protein and fat from pork scratchings otherwise it all goes to [i]waist[/i].
don't i know it 🙂


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 7:15 pm
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I'm testing this for you now, standby


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 7:18 pm
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I've read similar to Pieface.

Your body cannot process alcohol into carb or fat for storage, so it burns it in preference to the carbs or fat. As you're burning the alcohol, the carbs in the lager are converted to fat for storage rather than being stored as glycogen.

Or something. May be true, may not be true. Feel free to disagree without any fear of me arguing back. Just be convincing.


 
Posted : 15/08/2011 7:43 pm

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