Does anyone follow Racing Weight?

[emilyj]

I have been struggling mightily with finding an eating groove that works for me.  I'm training for a HIM, so I'm definitely putting the hours in.  I read Racing Weight and liked it.

However, I just figured out my carb needs per day and I'm shaking with how high it was - and this is only for 7-10 hours of working out per week.  Obviously it's going to increase as my training does. 

I did grams of carbs/lbs of body weight.  Did I do it right??

[katinthehat]

I like Racing Weight for the motivation and the examples of how your weight really is one of the most important training elements but I think his "diet" plans are complete and utter crap.

That being said, I definitely fall on the low carb/high fat spectrum of eating plans. If you want an alternative view of things, check out The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance - www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Performance-ebook/dp/B008BYG7RW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389047416&sr=8-1&keywords=low+carb+performance

[runaways]

I was probably following it about 70% of the time before the holidays and I'm trying to get back to it. I found that the carbs were high even for me (and I tend to function best on a higher carb diet than a lot of people here I think). I basically was using his diet quality chart as a guide, but eating my normal serving sizes rather than trying to eat weird portions to fit his suggested consumption. I hope that makes sense. I also didn't stress about it if I was short a serving or two on something that added points, but focused more on avoiding the stuff we negative point values. I actually felt like it was working well for me and I was starting to see some lost weight and body fat, but I didn't stick to it long enough to see any really huge results. I also think it's something that probably works best in conjunction with fairly intensive training.

Hope that's helpful!

ETA to fix autocorrect

[Brit]

runaways - Your post was really interesting to me because I read Racing Weight last Spring and felt the same way. I am definitely high carb for this board, but racing weight was ridiculously high even for me. I may try your approach to racing weight if when I get to a high enough training volume that it makes sense.