Doug Egge
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Avoid things like sugar and stuff like that.
But I think really sticking to easy digesting carbs.
Easy digesting carbs don't cause you to hold as much water.
Totally.
For me, this is different from person to person, but the easiest to digest carbs for me, buckwheat.
Then goes sweet potato or white potato and rice.
It's kind of a tie in fruit.
But like buckwheat, for whatever reason, if I eat buckwheat, it's like I eat air.
That's how it feels in my digestion.
That's incredible.
Lastly, don't drink carbs.
So there's a lot of, you know, sweetened drinks.
And this is just...
It's not empty.
I know people say it's empty calories.
I get what they're trying to communicate.
It's like, why drink calories when you can eat calories?
Now, is there value in drinking carbohydrates?
Sometimes, for people who have really long, hard workouts, it can definitely help quite a bit.
You're going to go play pickup basketball for three hours, and you don't want to bonk having carbohydrates while you're playing.