Carb cycle.. A little help plz

daniebanks

Hi guys. I've been carb cycling for about 2 weeks, really enjoying it.
Anyway my question is-

I'm following this pattern, adjusting my macros but calories stay the same:

Monday: low carb - C15% P45% F40%
Tues: high carb C45% P40% F15%
Wends: low carb C15% P45% F40%
Thurs: moderate carb C30% P45% F25%
Friday: low carb C15% P45% F40%
Saturday: High carb C45% P40% F15%
Sunday: moderate carb C30% P45% F25%

Am I on the right track? What do you guys follow or can recommend ?
I'm still new to it so any help would be great ! Thanks

angelexperiment

Hi. I do a different carb cycle. I don't know all the macros on mine but on low carb high carb my calories are different. Also I have one free day. On lc days its 1300 on hc days its 1500 on free day 2100 then every fourth week is a slingshot week or normal week or carb load week at about 1500 every day. You can add me if you like! Send me any questions too! I have been doing it almost 3 months.

cajuntank

So if you are trying to lose weight, have you lost weight? If so, what has your average weekly weightloss been?
Has your gym performance remained constant or maybe shown improvement on your higher carb days?
Carb cycling is just a tool/protocol, so my questions are more based on if your current protocol is working or not.

daniebanks

angelexperiment wrote: »

Hi. I do a different carb cycle. I don't know all the macros on mine but on low carb high carb my calories are different. Also I have one free day. On lc days its 1300 on hc days its 1500 on free day 2100 then every fourth week is a slingshot week or normal week or carb load week at about 1500 every day. You can add me if you like! Send me any questions too! I have been doing it almost 3 months.

Ah kool, so you're adjusting your calories too.. interesting.

Ill add you now

daniebanks

cajuntank wrote: »

So if you are trying to lose weight, have you lost weight? If so, what has your average weekly weightloss been?
Has your gym performance remained constant or maybe shown improvement on your higher carb days?
Carb cycling is just a tool/protocol, so my questions are more based on if your current protocol is working or not.

My weight fluctuates, im also using creatine so there would be some water retention hence the fluctuating weight.

I do find I have more energy on high carb days, all my workouts are done in the morning too.

I was just interested to see how other people carb cycle/if they adjust their calories or just macros

cajuntank

daniebanks wrote: »

cajuntank wrote: »

So if you are trying to lose weight, have you lost weight? If so, what has your average weekly weightloss been?
Has your gym performance remained constant or maybe shown improvement on your higher carb days?
Carb cycling is just a tool/protocol, so my questions are more based on if your current protocol is working or not.

My weight fluctuates, im also using creatine so there would be some water retention hence the fluctuating weight.

I do find I have more energy on high carb days, all my workouts are done in the morning too.

I was just interested to see how other people carb cycle/if they adjust their calories or just macros

Based on your statement to the other user about finding it interesting that their calories change, makes me think you are not quite sure how carb cycling works. Carb cycling does not do anything special or bio-hack the body into losing weight. It is just a tool used to create a caloric deficit and offer carbs in timing with training. So as an example, if you need 14000 calories a week (just using sample numbers to keep the math easy, so 2000 calories a day), and you workout say 4 days a week, and you wanted to try and lose 1lbs a week. This would leave you a balance of around 10500 calories. You could eat 1700 calories on those 4 days and 1200 or so a day on the 3 days you don't. Your protein would remain fairly consistent everyday, fat would be relatively low on high carb days and high (thus low carb, but not high enough to go over the 1200 calories used in my example) on non-workout days to help with satiety (feeling full) as you aren't eating as much that day and you don't need the added carbs due to low activity. Again, since your protein remains constant, figure out your calorie needs to lose weight and utilize the remainder of your calories for carbs on training day with some fat, and low carbs on non-training days with higher fat to help keep you full due to less food that day.

I'm sure if you Google Carb Cycling Calculator or simular, you will find something that will give you some estimates to get you started; however, you might need to tweak on how you feel over the period of a few weeks.

livingleanlivingclean

OP, that looks awfully confusing! I'm not sure using %'s works, grams would be better imo.

I think the point of carb cycling is to also manipulate calories... So protein and fat remain constant and carbs change to give you days or more or less deficit...

daniebanks

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

OP, that looks awfully confusing! I'm not sure using %'s works, grams would be better imo.

I think the point of carb cycling is to also manipulate calories... So protein and fat remain constant and carbs change to give you days or more or less deficit...

I do use grams. I was just showing how i adjust the macros each day - ie making the macros lower or higher.

Lrdoflamancha

Hey I do carb cycling too..
Monday 0 carbs
Tuesday 5 carbs
Wednesday 5 carbs
Etc, etc, etc....

livingleanlivingclean

OP, that looks awfully confusing! I'm not sure using %'s works, grams would be better imo.

I think the point of carb cycling is to also manipulate calories... So protein and fat remain constant and carbs change to give you days or more or less deficit...

se015

What does Carb cycling do?

daniebanks

Lrdoflamancha wrote: »

Hey I do carb cycling too..
Monday 0 carbs
Tuesday 5 carbs
Wednesday 5 carbs
Etc, etc, etc....

how do u do 0 carbs .. O__O i dont think i could handle that hahah.. The only carb sources on low days are from things like vegetables