ArmdandFabulous’s BodyBlog

Ok peeps, it’s time for me to change something about my diet/training to get the progress going in the right direction again.   Up to this point, I have monitored protein intake and total calorie intake, but haven’t too closely counted my daily carb intake.  Sometimes I have ventured into the whole carb cycling thing by not eating them after 12:00 or 5:00, but haven’t been consistent with it because when I mess up the diet it is usually clearly due to excess calories, so haven’t gotten to the detail of noticing how many carbs a day does what for me yet…I recently had a friend in town and for me that is bad news diet wise…I even tried to guard against falling into bad eating decisions by bringing packets of protein and even packets of superpum250 to keep me from craving the junk that is always all around at the strip…as soon as I had one margarita (I made it healthier by ordering it with NO salt!! lol), the hungries start and I want junk…I had 3 mcd’s hamburgers, 4 apple pies (they’re on the Dollar menu, I had to do it, that’s practically giving them away!)..french fries…(since I never usually eat at McD’s, the low prices were a surprise to me and too good to pass up..lol..I make great excuses huh?)…can’t remember what else I ate..but the point is, it was Baaaaad…the good news is, after a couple days of drinking a gallon of water and keeping up with my workout schedule, I redeemed my previous weight and the scale didn’t go up…amazing isn’t it???

But now I feel like I’m ready to get a little more structured and want to get these last 10 or 12  oh who am I kidding probably 15 lbs gone so I can move into Phase II–possibly a little “bulk” phase…which is exciting to me because for this past year I have been trying to build muscle while I cut fat, which is frustrating, when I start losing weight I get freaked out when I look in the mirror and it seems I am losing muscle too, and then I stop trying so hard to lose weight…but I am not where I want to be bodyfat or definition wise…so now I feel like I just need to go for it, and as long as I keep the diet numbers (protein, carbs, etc) right, then I will be ok and whatever muscle I lose I can put back on…what has me excited about a bulk phase is that whenever I have cut back on the cardio, I have noticed much faster muscle gains…it’s really unbelievable how fast they can grow…but I have had to burn them away with all the cardio trying to make up for my bad diet decisions to keep from gaining fat back!!!

So anyways, I still have a lot to learn, I know I can’t learn everything in a year (still can’t believe it’s already been a year that I’ve been lifting weights!) ..but I was wondering what the best carb cycling plans out there are..I’ve heard of doing 3 days low carb then one high, then 3 medium…or one day you have carbs with breakfast, lunch and dinner, then the next day only breakfast, then the next day with breakfast and lunch only, etc…I saw in the current Oxygen mag that a low carb day should be half your bodyweight, a medium day would be = to your bodyweight and high day would be 2x your bodyweight -3…but to me these amounts seem a little high…anyways, that’s where you come in..what carb cycling plan works best for you?…are there other plans that work better than the ones I’ve mentioned?  I would love to hear any input or suggestions on this!

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