After a carb bomb day...

graysmom2005

Hi there! I'm new here. I have finally busted through a 2 1/2 year plateau by watching starchy carbs/sugars and I'm thrilled. My question is. On Sunday it was Oktoberfest here in GERMANTOWN, Md. LOL. Had a big day at the fair with my family and had a bratwurst, pretzel, strudel....and then had thai food for dinner with husband and maybe some ice cream. I've been typically under 100g of carbs a day....so this was a HUGE stray. I got straight back on the next day..but I'm still up a few pounds. And it's Wednesday. Is this water/glycogen? Is it good to throw some carbs to the muscles here and there? I'm a fitness instructor so I certainly use up my glycogen levels.

Is having a cheat meal/day once a week or so really bad when typically low-carb? Thoughts? Advice? Sympathy? LOL! Thanks!

TheVimFuego

Firstly, well done on the fitness breakthrough

I would say that after being lowish-carb for so long any weight that you have gained after a bit of a carb splurge is mostly water/glycogen.

We don't just put on kilos of fat overnight, the body doesn't work that way IMO.

I wouldn't sweat the scale and just go by the measurements, if you take them, and how your body feels/performs.

I've been low carb for about 6 months now (less than 50g a day, most days 30g) and I've found that I've needed to up the carb count occasionally as my muscles just feel weak sometimes.

I'm actually coming around to the idea of a planned day of 'carbing up', Saturday would seem to be favourite as I tend to play sport on Sundays so this would give me a 'charge'.

I don't see that once your body is used to burning fat (keto-adapted, etc) it will forget this just because it gets a day of carby food.

I would keep the fat low on such days though.

Just my take on it, everyone is different