Carbs v. fats v. Nothing Weight Loss Rules

Monique Ryan's books and articles should be required reading for endurance athletes. Over on the Velonews site she has a fantastic response to a reader's question regarding how to eat before and during training if they are aiming to lose weight (but don't want to lose performance).

One thing that surprised me was her advice that skipping carbohydrates in the morning before a 60 minute workout can have the effect of burning more fat stores (but after the one hour mark a breakfast-skipping athlete is only burning the same percentage of fat as their well fed counterpart). This advice makes logical sense because if you don't have any immediately available carbs then of course your body will turn to the fat stores sooner, but I've always been a little old-school when it comes to "break"ing the "fast".

Hit the link and check it out.