During my diet carb cycling was what took care of the majority of my fat loss. I then started doing cardio everyday and had great resutls from that as well. I currently eat 470g carbs on high days, 370 on med, and 170 on low days.
I planned to increased cardio by 5min post workout for a total of 30min and up to 45min on my two rest days for these next two weeks. I thought about subtracting 50g carbs next week and another 50g the following week to keep protein and fat as high as possible. Im only cutting for two more weeks. Is subtracting carbs only, the way to go?
Just caught a YT short from Mike Israetel on this topic. Recommends cutting fat first (down to 0.3g/lb of BW as @Andrewgen_Receptors wrote). Then cutting carbs if fewer calories are still desired.
Well working out intensely 5 days a week. 30min cardio post workout. 45min cardio on rest days and i work at a warehouse and constantly on my feet walking and moving heavy boxes(amazon). Im also 189lbs at 6ft.
To me, it looks like you’re only in a deficit on your low carb days tbh. Cutting fats to 0.3g/lb would let you keep the anabolic benefits of Carbs at maximum, but these are still very high numbers frankly.
Yeah. Im losing weight at about 1lb per week right now. I want to end by the end of February because im tired of cutting tbh. I want to maintain my new weight for about a month and then enjoy my leaner physique for the summer.
I wanted to go hard these last two weeks while keeping gym performance up. Also, low libido, always hungry, and being more intolerable is no fun.
My goal was 180lbs but if i cant make that while not being stringy, it is what it is.
You could drop fats a bit, but not really a ton on average because of that 37g day(s).
I think your protein is high, so you could bring that down. Why go much over 200g? Protein doesn’t need to cycle based on carb days like fat does.
I think @Andrewgen_Receptors gave the go-to option if you just want to scorched earth your last two weeks out. Based on the amount of carbs you’re used to having, I’d anticipate feeling horrible around hour 72-96; maybe line that up with your days off work?
Might be placebo, but i feel a lot more recovered eating more protein along with protein digestion enzymes like Kiwi. I tried decreasing protein and looked skinnier and got weaker. Im not sure why its cycled though, im just following a carb cycling calculator.
Im willing to feel like shit for two weeks if that means the results are well worth it. I just dont want to look shitty. No offense to the other lifters on the sub reddit, but the people who ran that diet arent exactly the people i want to look like.
Sounds like what you’re doing is working for you, then. If you want protein to stay where it is, and your fat is already relatively low (average), I think you are stuck with only carb adjustments!
I haven’t seen the Reddit, so I don’t know what they look like, but you probably will look awful right after finishing a PSMF. Give it about 24-48 hours of filling up in glycogen, though, and you’ll look great… then you’ll look bad again for about a week until your sodium/ hydration get back in whack.
Does anyone here have any input on yohimbine or Rauwolscine? I plan to add this daily mid workout so it takes affect on poat workout cardio and during fasted cardio on weekends. I think this will help me get an edge. If i drink even more water than normal, i should be able to beat the water retention it causes along with my constant water retention from cutting.
Works much like caffeine; try it and see if you like it.
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Don’t worry about the water retention; the less fat you have on you, the less water you will retain - even if in the short run you find the scale being uncooperative (my log is a prime example of this).
I believe @Christian_Thibaudeau wrote something about cutting and cortisol equating to water retention. Something to the effect that as you cut, your cortisol rises - which is a water-retaining hormone. In some cases that you can be losing fat but due to cortisol increase, the scale just doesn’t move… Eventually, you’ll see the scale drop as cortisol lowers/regulates.
Okay cool. Im still stalling every two weeks or so and Look more washed out despite having smaller meadurements which throws me off. Its hard to make dietary changes because i could still be losing fat but the water retention is messing things up. Over thinking about this probably raises cortisol too.
