Calorie zig-zagging
Jenhal71
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Would someone please explain calorie zig zagging to me? I've heard that it benefits a lot of people...I'd like to give it a try, but I'd like all the details of it first....Thanks!
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Someone just posted this link...I haven't looked at it yet....but VERY interested also!
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You may already accidentally do this. Essentially, it's varying the calories you eat so you're not eating at a low calorie level consistently, day after day. Research has shown that our bodies don't start sagging into a lower metabolic mode due to calorie deprivation until about 72 hours (every body is different). The point of zig zagging (the current trendy way of describing it) is to eat at a low calorie level for a couple of days and then toss in a higher calorie day to keep your body from downshifting into what some call the "starvation" mode.
This is typical for me. A high day every three or four days. I've never dropped into that plateau mode. If I'm not losing, its because I'm not eating too few calories.0 -
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Thanks for the info!! I've checked out the website and I've now got a plan! I've been trying to stay at about 1200 calories/day and I haven't been deviating from it too much. I'm going to give this a try and see how it goes!!!0
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In my opinion, caloric cycling is only effective if you carb cycle in conjunction. If you eat 60% carbs one day, and less, but still 60% carbs the next, not really doing you much good.0
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In my opinion, caloric cycling is only effective if you carb cycle in conjunction. If you eat 60% carbs one day, and less, but still 60% carbs the next, not really doing you much good.
If you've got some studies/science behind that, I'd love to have the source so I can read up.
Not challenging you ... genuinely interested because I've never seen any of the science/research behind that.0 -
I'll try to find some studies for you. But the reasoning is that carb/fat relations should be inverse in quantity. If you're working out you need higher carbs to promote muscle growth/limit loss; and thus you keep to a generally lower fat diet. If you cut calories on your off days, you don't need as many carbs, thus your fat levels can go up a bit (granted carbs:fat calorie ratio is 1:2.25).
I highly suggest you look up some Layne Norton or Martin Berkman articles, or even Alan Aragon.
Layne Norton is a bodybuilder (don't dismiss this please!) but has a PhD in nutrition.
Martin Berkman is a nutrionist and delved heavily into the intermittent fasting theory, and also promotes carb cycling to regulate grehlin and leptin.
Alan Aragon is pretty much the king of Nutrition and fitness.0 -
I'll try to find some studies for you. But the reasoning is that carb/fat relations should be inverse in quantity. If you're working out you need higher carbs to promote muscle growth/limit loss; and thus you keep to a generally lower fat diet. If you cut calories on your off days, you don't need as many carbs, thus your fat levels can go up a bit (granted carbs:fat calorie ratio is 1:2.25).
I highly suggest you look up some Layne Norton or Martin Berkman articles, or even Alan Aragon.
Layne Norton is a bodybuilder (don't dismiss this please!) but has a PhD in nutrition.
Martin Berkman is a nutrionist and delved heavily into the intermittent fasting theory, and also promotes carb cycling to regulate grehlin and leptin.
Alan Aragon is pretty much the king of Nutrition and fitness.
I follow all of those guys, especially Alan Aragon. That definitely doesn't sound like something Alan would say: http://alanaragon.com/carbs-fat-friends-after-all.html
So yes, if you could find some studies, I would love to see them! Also not trying to challenge, but am genuinely interested since you mentioned those names.0 -
You may already accidentally do this. Essentially, it's varying the calories you eat so you're not eating at a low calorie level consistently, day after day. Research has shown that our bodies don't start sagging into a lower metabolic mode due to calorie deprivation until about 72 hours (every body is different). The point of zig zagging (the current trendy way of describing it) is to eat at a low calorie level for a couple of days and then toss in a higher calorie day to keep your body from downshifting into what some call the "starvation" mode.
This is typical for me. A high day every three or four days. I've never dropped into that plateau mode. If I'm not losing, its because I'm not eating too few calories.0 -
i've eaten low calories for weeks on end and still continued to lose the same weight every week. "Calorie zig zagging" does nothing more than sate cravings to break your diet which even i have been guilty of many times during my 6 months of weight loss. Your body doesnt go into starvation mode because starvation mode doesnt exist. Metabolic damage is a serious health issue and if u have tht happen to you, you should head to the doctor. SO there is no true benefit to calorie zig zagging other than a mental break to your diet which is often needed.0
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