Carb cycling protect metabolism?
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winninglosing43
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I have read several books stating carb cycling helps protect yor metabolism as you lose weight on a low carb woe... basically 6 days a week low carb (under 30grams) and then one day a week you do high carb veggies like potatoes, fruit, and corn (about 100grams).
Has anyone here experimeneed wth carb cycling?
Has anyone here experimeneed wth carb cycling?
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I'm getting to the point where I'm considering it, due to listening to the diabetes summit a couple weeks back. I'm considering it because so much of my metabolism and such is utterly broken. I'm not sure what I'm doing right now, other than a lot of research.
www.healthfulpursuit.com has a series of podcasts on it, though as she's adapted her plan more to her own needs, she said she doesn't incorporate this anymore...1 -
Check out this video.... it seems to make ALOT OF SENSE! ESP considering I've been doing low carb diets since my son was born 15 years ago it's no wonder they don't work as well with my metabolism all messed up...
Watch "Carb cycling explained in layman's terms" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/E-DeeNWLBcg 0 -
Also, Chris Powell (extreme weight loss show) states in his book that all the people he trains are on a carb cycling type eating program with mostly low carb days.... I've never considered it before now but I think I am going to try it for a few weeks and see how I feel/what my numbers look like.0
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I'm not saying the guy in the video is wrong, but his rubber band didn't convince me.
What do we know about low carb? We know it takes a few days to adapt, so that alone is a pretty good argument to not cycle carbs.
But there's also an appetite reduction effect (at least for many of us). Why is that?
We know insulin is low, and we know that helps mobilize fat, right?
So maybe the body senses this energy source. Why would fat mobilized from adipose be any different than fat eaten for dinner, right?
So if this energy source is freely available due to low carb and low insulin, maybe the body never feels "starved" and maybe that metabolic rubber band never gets pulled down.
That would explain the lack of hunger. And to me, that makes more sense than his rubber band. And that means you shouldn't cycle carbs. 5
