New Diet Experiment - Cycling Carbs
Plugged in a new diet today and it has me cutting back on protein and upping the carbs - in fact cycling them … approx 200g of carbs one day, 350 day 2 and 500g on day 3. We’ll see how that goes. I was convinced recently that over doing it with the protein is kind of like throwing a "wet log on the fire." It is a three day cycle that repeats. Most of the protein is coming from milk sources [I’ll no doubt rearrange that later as I get used to things - swap yogurt out for chicken, cottage cheese for tuna, etc. depending on how it all goes], and the carbs are coming from oats, brown rice, barley, fruit and lentils. Fats are coming from the milk products and from salad dressings that I use to give things a bit of flavor:
Day 1: 1919 Calories, 168g Protein, 239g Carbs, 27g Fats
Day 2: 2273 Calories, 185g Protein, 364g Carbs, 43g Fats
Day 3: 3181 Calories, 172g Protein, 511g Carbs, 56g Fats
The goal is to ramp up the metabolism while maintaining the energy to do the HIT workouts with the intensity necessary to put on muscle. Should be interesting.
