I think about this differently..... I consider myself a carb addict and if I suffer an addiction I do not want to introduce that back into my body ( I eat 20 grams of carbs a day or less). During the first few days of carb restriction most people will go through what we call the keto flu.... Well I call that carb withdrawals.... It took my body a few days to adapt to the lack of carbs and to start using fat as its primary energy source. If I eat more carbs its primary source of energy will be glycogen (carbs) and my body will not use my fat stores...

I have been in the game since late October so I am no expert by any means, however this is how I rationalize my continued restrictions of carbs.

Each person is different but you need to reload carbs or reefed if your competing in triathlons and iron man competitions or need energy/performance for activities which need sudden busts.I do just fine with out reloading carbs even on my runs longer than 2 hrs on Sundays. I am training for an half marathon and do p90x3 in addition to my running. You might as well eat carbs every day if you are going to carb load with out exercise.

In the past (and probably the near future) I've done 6:1. 6 days of low-carb, one day of whatever I wanted, carbs or sugar. I've noticed that at about 2 days after the carb binge day, I've dropped a pound or two. It tricks the body somehow, and it gives us low-carbers a chance to "cheat".

I'm all for it