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Carb Cycling is not for the weak!

Basso said:
I'm hitting 2300-2700 depending on low or high carbs, my maintenance cal is around 3500, I pretty much sit all day also. So I'm cutting around 1000 cals a day but it's freekin slow!
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I was very interesting in your meals and what they are and how you break them down. Mind sharring?
 
Hey guys, so I'm getting blood work this Friday and was wondering if this diet will screw up any panels? Maybe it'll show my electrolytes are off? I'm just thinking and thinking....It probably won't be a problem but I'm always concerned.
 
One thing about a cyclical keto diet is to KEEP YOUR WATER INTAKE UP !! It's quite easy to get dehydrated on a keto diet, been there, done that! I do 10 low to no carb days then carb up on the weekend. The longer you're in ketosis the easier it becomes. I couldn't do all of the bouncing around that y'all do, it's hard enough to get back on track after carb up, I couldn't deal with lows and highs. Rage, your choleserol should come back excellent if you're eating clean. I've had bloodwork done on 40-40-20 and keto and my keto values are always better.
ROB
 
Thanks for the input Green. I get in at least 2 gallons a day of water so I'm not too worried about dehydration. ANd for the blood test, I started to think the same thing, with the way I've been eating, everything should be dandy.

Now I wonder, the longer your body is in almost-ketosis, does that mean the less effective it is at burning fat? Just a thought
 
Rage (SoCal) said:
I was very interesting in your meals and what they are and how you break them down. Mind sharring?
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Sure, I'm still fine tuneing the cycling and I am not doing keto, so my low carb days I'm hitting around 70 gs. My protien I keep at 325-350, my fat I hit around 100-125. My body really responds to fat intake so I keep it fairly low and clean, if I was doing keto I'd raise it considerably knowing how well it worked with Body Opus (30%p/70%f) but I don't want to experience that again (at least not till I get desperate).

B'fast=Oatmeal/3eggwhites/1wholeegg/1 scoop Matrix (45/32/11)
After that every meal is veggies (mostly brocolli and lettuce), and I'll do a 1/4c of Oats with my Post W/O. I take in about 9gs of fat with flax/fish caps. Most of my protien sources are chicken, on leg days I may have a steak for dinner. At the end of the day I sit at 325/70/100 or close to it. I'm experimenting on taking my carbs up to 300 on heavy w/o days but this carb cycling is new to me so we'll see. I'm doing 4 low and 3 high right now. My last meal is 12ozCottage cheese/1/4c of walnuts/1 scoop of Metabolic Drive.

For me this is a loooong term project, I spent a lot of years putting these lbs on and I know it's going to take some time to take them off, I'm trying to make this effective, yet something I can comfortably live with. Other than the scoops of Protien with B'fast and my last meal I do a post work out shake with Whey, and I carry a shake with me in case I can't make a meal, I do 8 meals a day but sometimes I'll snack on those meals all day so I'm constantly eating every 15-20minutes or so during the day (if work permits).

Anyway I appreciate your thread, because you can never learn enough and I am constantly evolving my diet based on some of your alls experiences.
 
Basso said:
Sure, I'm still fine tuneing the cycling and I am not doing keto, so my low carb days I'm hitting around 70 gs. My protien I keep at 325-350, my fat I hit around 100-125. My body really responds to fat intake so I keep it fairly low and clean, if I was doing keto I'd raise it considerably knowing how well it worked with Body Opus (30%p/70%f) but I don't want to experience that again (at least not till I get desperate).

B'fast=Oatmeal/3eggwhites/1wholeegg/1 scoop Matrix (45/32/11)
After that every meal is veggies (mostly brocolli and lettuce), and I'll do a 1/4c of Oats with my Post W/O. I take in about 9gs of fat with flax/fish caps. Most of my protien sources are chicken, on leg days I may have a steak for dinner. At the end of the day I sit at 325/70/100 or close to it. I'm experimenting on taking my carbs up to 300 on heavy w/o days but this carb cycling is new to me so we'll see. I'm doing 4 low and 3 high right now. My last meal is 12ozCottage cheese/1/4c of walnuts/1 scoop of Metabolic Drive.

For me this is a loooong term project, I spent a lot of years putting these lbs on and I know it's going to take some time to take them off, I'm trying to make this effective, yet something I can comfortably live with. Other than the scoops of Protien with B'fast and my last meal I do a post work out shake with Whey, and I carry a shake with me in case I can't make a meal, I do 8 meals a day but sometimes I'll snack on those meals all day so I'm constantly eating every 15-20minutes or so during the day (if work permits).

Anyway I appreciate your thread, because you can never learn enough and I am constantly evolving my diet based on some of your alls experiences.
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Thank you, your info has been very refreshing and informative. You know, it's little things like carb cycling that spices up bbing when things may have been a little old. Seeing what I have seen in the last couple weeks just reassures me that the big changes happen when you're extremely focused on your diet.

It's interesting to see you start up with a relatively high carb meal in the AM then taper off during the day, it makes perfect sense. Now, if we could just trick our bodies into not feeling like crap.
 
Rage (SoCal) said:
Thank you, your info has been very refreshing and informative. You know, it's little things like carb cycling that spices up bbing when things may have been a little old. Seeing what I have seen in the last couple weeks just reassures me that the big changes happen when you're extremely focused on your diet.

It's interesting to see you start up with a relatively high carb meal in the AM then taper off during the day, it makes perfect sense. Now, if we could just trick our bodies into not feeling like crap.
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Actually I don't feel like crap, which is why I've leveled off my low carb days at 70-100. When I don't do carbs in the AM it destroys my day and I feel like crap. Like I said I want to be able to do this long term so I need to feel human, Keto makes me feel horrid. My w/o's are still good also, another reason I choose these numbers.
 
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