A few people on here raving about carb cycling for fat loss so thought i'd give the approach a go in my attempt to hit single digit BF this year. After a bit of research i came up with this split -

High Carb days - 2600kcals
200g protein
70g Fat
300g Carbs

Medium Carb days - 2030Kcals
200g Protein
70g fat
150g Carbs

Low Carb days - 1730kcals
200g Protein
70g Fat
75g Carbs
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Monday - High
Tuesday - Medium
Wednesday - Low
Thursday -High
Friday - Medium
Saturday -Low
Sunday - Low
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Can anyone see any problems with this set up? Any changes i should make?

Rob

The BEST method in my opinion is one that ALWAYS surprises the body.

So do something like

High, Low, Low, Medium,Low, HIGH,HIGH, LOW,LOW, Medium.LOW.HIGH.

From everything ive seen on this - using this kind of approach keeps the body off guard totally.

If its something thats new in your approach - then maybe work the HIGH's around Workout days and then see how well it does over the 4 weeks.

Id also be looking at upping the fat to some 100g at least on the low days if thats possible.

About 3 years ago I followed the HiPaCC diet and had some good results with the approach. Only problems I found were fitting around the dumb shift pattern I work.

Intresting idea KP. Makes a lot of sense, I think I'll opt for the random approach. I'm more then happy to eat the same thing day in day out, so I'll just have 3 set menus and mix it up on a regular basis (tending to more lows and mediums then high days).

RoB wrote:Intresting idea KP. Makes a lot of sense, I think I'll opt for the random approach. I'm more then happy to eat the same thing day in day out, so I'll just have 3 set menus and mix it up on a regular basis (tending to more lows and mediums then high days).

i think thats a good plan. i'd probably aim at maybe an average of one day in three being a high carb day but in slightly random sequence.

Dtlv74 wrote:

RoB wrote:Intresting idea KP. Makes a lot of sense, I think I'll opt for the random approach. I'm more then happy to eat the same thing day in day out, so I'll just have 3 set menus and mix it up on a regular basis (tending to more lows and mediums then high days).

i think thats a good plan. i'd probably aim at maybe an average of one day in three being a high carb day but in slightly random sequence.

I'd do something similar but have one high carb every 5 days an average