KLEEN LIVING - A log about Life, Training, and Nutrition.

[MrKleen73]

You’ve shed the extra pizza bloat weight from your last hurrah and now worked off the glycogen stores - this is where the diet progress will really begin to shine. Your body is in the fat-burning groove, you are doing all the right things, and the reload this weekend will reset things some for next week.

Until you know how you respond, most will recommend just one high day, or even just a single cheat meal (making it high). But if you have carbs for both days, like I do on the metabolic diet approach since it’s cyclic keto, the second day should just be moderate cals. On a low fat carb cycling plan, the high day is usually followed by a low day, but with cyclic keto you need to sandwich carb days together. DiPasquale would tell you though, as soon as you start to spill/smooth over, go right back to your keto diet. Don’t do the whole 2 days, if you even go into 2 days.

I have been using 2 full days, Saturday always very high carb and Sunday moderate, but I’m no longer losing weight at this size and hormone combo. Which is good in the sense that I don’t feel like I’m in a deficit anymore, but I have been keeping that second carb day to help hold performance & recovery off blast (and family events since I’m not in prep). As your goals are ultimately aesthetic, you should really pay attention to the mirror - you will lose better if you don’t overdo the weekend, and your performance has been so hamstrung that you could be at a terrible deficit yet still potentially improve anything if your body just lets you progress (like these pull-ups). They were not progressed based on fuel, but rather just getting to train the movement at all.

Yeah, I was sitting around 218 before the pizza, and I am hoping I dropped about 3-4lbs of real fat loss in the last 11 days.

I was just about to PM you to talk about this, trying to figure out how many carbs to do. My initial thoughts were somewhere around 500-600g carbs Saturday, and maybe 200-300 on Saturday, but I was also thinking I don't want to look like a water buffalo at the end of the weekend either. So I am right there with you on the stopping if I spill over.

When I ran UD2.0 which is similar the amount of carbs it prescribed was unreal, and I was always spilled over by the weekend. I think it had me doing like 1000g on Saturday or something wild and around 600 on Sunday, so I was a water buffalo every Monday for a while on that run. I did recomp effectively, but I only looked good maybe 3 days a week the others were either spilled over right after, or flat as a pancake right before the refeed. I definitely don't want a repeat of that, plus I was on Super-DMZ or whatever it was that has 10mg superdrol and 10mg DMZ per dose twice a day.... I only made it 3 weeks on that cycle and had to cut it from a screwed gut, horrible pumps, and urine getting darker than it ever should be. That was intense!!!!