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Israeli Couscous/Steel Cut Oats

Mar 19, 2009 21:10

I have been scouring Sydney at present for steel cut oats and mograbieh/pearl couscous/giant couscous/Israeli couscous. Health shops, Macro, gourmet grocers, Fratelli Fresh...To no avail!!! Another fellow gourmet at work found some steel cut oats for me in her local health shop (for less than $5) and tipped me off that I could get Israeli ( Read more... )

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nadz0r March 19 2009, 11:56:10 UTC

we totally do - we eat carbs at every meal and don't feel bad about it. i guess most of us are in the habit of using rice to 'bulk out' a meal. i'm not a huge rice eater, but i've always been a carb eater. i don't freak out about it too much - focussing more on calories and how i feel. it isn't carbs that make you fat, it's how much you eat really. i'm just conscious of how much i want to eat them at the moment (ie. more than normal).

the calorie counting has helped heaps - normally 2 weeks in, i am ready to eat my arm off. it's been almost 3 months of hard training now and it's only now i'm starting to feel hungry. i aim for a net 1290 calories a day (so i let myself eat for what i exercise off), which has been fine until now...i think i need to get in the habit of packing a mini salad for afternoon snacks, because that way i can eat more volume with less calories.

i just checked my CK stats - on days when i exercise, i am eating around c.1700 calories a day gross. i have noticed that CK exercise does sometimes over and under estimate calories compared to my heart rate monitor. i usually adjust the minutes to tally up to what my HR monitor says. unfortunately, i can't wear my HR monitor when i play basketball, so I have no idea how much i burn during that!

dorukai March 19 2009, 15:46:42 UTC

Why avoiding carbs so hard? It can't be a weight loss thing surely . . .

nadz0r March 20 2009, 08:57:19 UTC

i'm not avoiding them - i'm trying to have about 30% of my total calories from carbs. if i had my way, it'd be like 60% ;)

i'm not trying to lose weight, just trying to eat right and fuel my body efficiently for the training that i'm doing

dorukai March 20 2009, 12:06:02 UTC

Ah, ok. Seems pretty hardcore!

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