Cycling Nutrition: Carb Cycle Super Cheat Sheet to Rapid Weight Loss: A 7 Day by Day Carb Cycle Plan To Your Superior Cycling Nutrition (Bonus : 7 Top Carb Cycle Recipes Included). Samantha Michaels
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Why Carb Cycling?
The idea behind carb cycling is to trick the body into always thinking that there is an ample supply of carbohydrates in the body. As discussed earlier, this will give a feeling of fullness, and will also release the desired levels of insulin as well as a proper rate of metabolism. What all of this entails can be listed in three things:
1. Boost in metabolism
2. Fuelling your body
3. Stabilizing blood sugar levels to reduce cravings
These benefits of carb cycling is what makes all that fat burning possible, even without depriving the body of the essential carbohydrates.
Chris Powell further explains that it takes at least a week before the body is fully pulled in to the system, so the first week is also the most crucial during the carb cycle diet. However, these first 7 days are also enough to regulate your body so that it is able to burn fat naturally as well as to shed off those extra pounds.
Ideally, a person should start with a high carb day, followed by 2 low carb days, then followed by another high carb day, then another 2 low carb days. Counting this off in a week will total 6 days all in all, which leaves us with a 7th day remaining. This is where the beauty of the carb cycle diet really lies in. On this seventh day, you are actually allowed to eat anything you want, be it low carbs or high carbs. This cheat day will make sure that the body is not deprived. After all, no diet can fully be sustained if the body feels deprived.
The Cheat Day
Let’s discuss the cheat day and its 4 simple rules. This is one of the most important aspects of carb cycling because it satisfies your emotional and psychological need. After all, the diet will have you controlling what you eat, and after a certain period of time, it could leave you feeling unsatisfied and even depressed because you can no longer eat the foods that you love.
Cheat day works in two ways: the first is that it satisfies your cravings as it lets you eat your favourite foods, the second is because it actually tricks your body into thinking that there is a lot of calories to be burned so that it speeds up metabolism. In effect, even if you are taking up all these extra calories, your body will actually react and make you burn even more calories especially if the cheat day is followed by your low carb day.
Experts in carb cycling say that you can eat up to 1,000 calories more during your cheat day. This can translate to your favourite fried chicken, your decadent desserts and pastries, or almost anything you could want to eat. Some may think that the limit of a thousand calories will actually not be enough, but this is already a lot. What you can do to prepare for this, and to make sure that you stay within this limit and make the best of it is for you to list down the foods that you crave for during the week or during your low carb and high carb days. List the foods along with their corresponding calorie count, and you will be surprised to see just how many of these foods you will be able to eat on your cheat day.
A second rule when it comes to cheat day is to never cheat during dinner. You can eat to your heart’s content on breakfast, lunch, and during your snacks, but never do so at night because this is what is known as the red zone. This red zone, between 6:00 and 12:00 at night to be more specific, is the time when the body tends to crave for more food. You may start off thinking that you will just have a bite or two of your favourite foods, but before you know it, your extra thousand calories can turn into two thousand or even three thousand calories. These binge eating moments can throw off your metabolism too much, especially since you will not be using them up for the rest of the day.
The cheat day’s third rule is to simply do your cheating on the table. This may sound silly, but many people actually eat a lot more when they simply sit in their cars and go through drive thru’s, or when they are doing their eating in front of their television or computer screens. Eating off the table makes people think less of what they eat, so they tend to consume more calories than they should. Also, eating at the table allows you to savour those special cheat meals so it works better psychologically and emotionally as well.
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