What do I do with my oats on the AD?!

**Toxic** · 02-07-2008 11:02 AM

Just a silly quick question. I bought 5kg of MP instant oats a while back of which I am about halfway through, and now I am seriously considering the high fat approach, but I am left wondering, what am I to do with my 3g of oats I have!

Can I still have a scoop post-workout or would that be counter productive to the whole diet?

Ta

**Gareth83** · 02-07-2008 11:12 AM

Use them for your carb up days

**stronglikewood** · 02-07-2008 11:12 AM

If you're on the AD then you can still eat the oats on your carb up day. I eat a few bowls of porridge on my carb up day.

You can also still be low carb and eat oats every day. Depending on the rest of your diet a scoop of oats pwo probably won't take you over 100g of carbs.

**hailtotheking** · 02-07-2008 12:31 PM

Well, 3 g of oats is less than a small scoop, so that shouldnt be to big a deal to use up

Seriously though, they are ideal for your carb-up days.

**Toxic** · 02-07-2008 01:40 PM

Woops, I meant 3kg! Sorry!

Also ,is there a benefit for going <30g carbs or should I start somewhere like <100g?

**Darryl** · 02-07-2008 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Toxic

Woops, I meant 3kg! Sorry!

Also ,is there a benefit for going <30g carbs or should I start somewhere like <100g?

I think to begin with you'd need to shot for sub 30g to allow your body to adapt to burning fat as fuel. This takes upto about 2 weeks i believe which is why the majority recommend not carbing up over the first weekend at the start of the diet. After that i guess you could go over the 30g as long as you don't over do it.