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Usually if we stop for lunch for a long time, I'm rubbish at skiing afterwards. So, we often start skiing at 9ish, grab a snack at 11-12 then keep going until 4.00pm. Then when we do stop, I feel a bit wobbly. What do you guys eat to keep your blood sugar up?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sugar
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A massive pizza and a couple of beers usually does the trick. 
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The combined weight of my own legs, in pasta form.
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Crepes
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Oh and beer. Don't forget the beer.
Never forget beer.
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full fat coke
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i always find a nice genepi after a big lunch makes the skiing a bit easier 
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Tartiflete, about a barrow load washed down with several beers followed by coffee and large brandy.
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Beer works for me too
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Sugar soaked in raspberry juice is also recommended, because it looks very similar to blood sugar
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erica2004, Lots of people have mentioned beer - I don't think they are far off the mark - yes, alcohol in large quantities can be dehydrating, but the fluid side of the argument might be useful to you. I believe that unless you are properly hydrated the body can't deal with the food you give it effectively and so you should make sure you get plenty of fluids on board at the same time - if you are eating well, but not drinking enough maybe your body can't do its best with what you have given it to work on. Medical types please feel free to correct as necessary
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Something and chips usually. 
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You know it makes sense.
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plat du jour
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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crepes and hot chocolate on a cold day mid afternoon will do the trick, replace the hot chocolate with beer on hot days.
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Poster: A snowHead
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erica2004, good breakfast - poached eggs on toast, full fry up etc., mid morning snack (burger, pizza slice, ile flottant,), decent lunch (duck in honey sauce with gratin of potato and carrot washed down by a leffe apero and a robust Mercurey), then a good dinner after a nap.
I would be more interested in why your skiing is "rubbish" after lunch. Why would eating anything affect it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| erica2004 wrote: |
| Usually if we stop for lunch for a long time, I'm rubbish at skiing afterwards. |
Maybe you could stop for a short, light lunch? I had a Salade Savoyarde and a espresso today, and felt fine all afternoon. Plenty of energy for skiing, but didn't feel like I'd eaten two bricks which is what I normally feel like if I have something like a tartiflette.
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You take a rug when you go skiing? How very civilized!
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erica2004, I find I don't get hungry at all while skiing and last Feb I didn't eat during the day at all, having had just a small bowl of porridge made with water/sweetener to start the day. To be blunt, by 2-3pm I felt like total uncoordinated headachey sh..t on the first couple of days and thereafter made myself stop and have something small (salad, or child's galette), and after that I was fine.
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Butterfly,
" To be blunt, by 2-3pm I felt like total uncoordinated headachey sh..t "
That'll be the hunger then.
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i've found that long lunches don't suit me. Normally a bowl of soup or when feeling poor a sarnie or wrap, otherwise I'd rather sleep than ski. Had wobbly moments a couple of years ago for no apparant reason - low altitude, ok temps and not taxing skiing and found that a muesli bar or banana on the chair lift usually fixed it.
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otherwise I'd rather sleep than ski
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then you'll need your napsack.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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If you hot a low energy point, try one of the glucose gel sachets that runners use, and drink water with it (although one type now contains extra fluid). And also make sure you take in some complex carbs (cereal bar etc) as otherwise you hit the wall again 40 mins later.
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Scarpa, Yes you must drink water with gel sachets otherwise I found that they hit the bottom of the stomach and come straight up again.
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You know it makes sense.
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| paulio wrote: |
Oh and beer. Don't forget the beer.
Never forget beer. |
hummmmmm beeeer
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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pam w, 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| erica2004 wrote: |
| Usually if we stop for lunch for a long time, I'm rubbish at skiing afterwards. So, we often start skiing at 9ish, grab a snack at 11-12 then keep going until 4.00pm. Then when we do stop, I feel a bit wobbly. What do you guys eat to keep your blood sugar up? |
I have the same problem with cycling, stop for a meal, get going again and it feels like someone has wacked me over the head with a hammer.
someone once told me the lack of energy was caused by the body digesting the large amount of food. hence folk falling asleep when reading the paper after the sunday roast.
I find the best way now is to eat little and often, as mentioned energy bars and gels, but wrap your gel in an outer bag, it makes one hell of a mess if it breakes in your pocket
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riverman,
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Yes you must drink water with gel sachets otherwise I found that they hit the bottom of the stomach and come straight up again |
Yes I found that, I think it was because although I pressed the metal button thing, I didn't wait for them to warm up.
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I get up early, but generally enjoy the skiing after lunch better for some reason 
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erica2004, It's got to be beer, or do what a lot of the locals drink prior to beer in Austria - schiwasser 
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i love first slopes, so i start around 7.30-8.00. Lunch i get when I am hungry. I eat it on top of the mountain. It is incredible, unless it's windy. After ski I take a hot tub. What more can you desire?
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fess, Let's face it - the whole thing is fabulous. I'm so excited about going skiing again.
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erica2004, yeah, thats true. it is fabulous.
about the beer - i drink only after skiing, in the hot tub, cuz' otherwise my stomach is like popping out, and there is not much room left for technique
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Ritter Sport 
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Full breakfast, espresso at first stop, hot chocolate with rum for elevenses, rehydrate with OJ & then oinion soup c/w gruyere & croutons + roll & half bottle red wine for lunch, mars bar/twix when flagging on the route back then a few beers for apres. Just about keeps me going to dinner.
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And green chaud (hot chocolate with green chartreuse) if it's cold. My first ever ski instructor (at the age of 11) introduced me to that in the middle of a 
