female ckd expert?

[GunnaBbuff]

I am wondering if a female experienced in ckd could help me out with the details of my diet. I have read so many conflicting things, and formulas. and get different numbers here and there. Some say no fructose, glucose sucrose for the carb up and others say thats the way to go. I also am interested in a perspective on how the diet is tweaked for a female. I found that lowering the carbs in my post workout shake helped, so I wonder if lowering the carb up carbs will be necessary to prevent fat gain.
I have tried over at the keto section without much luck, I hope someone here can help me. I start my carb up today. Here is the numbers I have come up with.

mon-Fri
130 lbs, 5'7 Female
1500 cals.
102g P
85g F
carbs under 30
Fri afternoon 50 carbs from fruit
2 hrs later depletion w/o
100g dextrose, 50 P shake
Then spread 410 carbs, and 102g P and 46 g F over 36hrs ?
Thanks!
Mary Ellen

[sweetbecky]

hi Mary Ellen,
While I am no expert, I have been doing keto for 5 1/2 years and started doing carb-ups over the summer. I've found this calculator to be the most accurate and useful: http://www.users.voicenet.com/~petri...s/ckdcalc.html

I have kept my carb ups to no longer than 24 hours. The tricky part is maintaining a decent level of protein while significantly raising carb levels. The most important aspect to a carb is to keep fat very, very low, and sugars should be low also. After your depletion workout, you'll start with higher GI carbs for the first 12 hours, then switch to low GI carbs for the remaining 12 hours (or however long you plan to do it... I found longer than 24 hour carb ups resulted in spill-over, or fat storage). I don't think fructose is good to have during a carb up, because fructose fills liver glycogen, not muscle glycogen.

Carb ups are great to maintain strength in the gym and they provide much needed relief from eating a lot of the same foods all week. Take your time planning them, select foods you enjoy, and don't worry if you feel you didn't time everything right, etc., because there is always next week!

[GunnaBbuff]

Thanks Sweetbecky for the reply! I will do the 24 hr carb load you suggested. Should I follow the carb amounts from the calculator just for the 24hr? And forget about what it lists for the second 24hrs? It was around 400ish carbs.
Thanks!

[sweetbecky]

Sorry I didn't see your reply sooner
If you're going to keep it at 24 hours, I would take each 24 hour segment listed and do it for 12 hours each. You may want to try it the "normal" way first, to see how your body responds, then taper it down as needed.