ARgghhh Carb Cycling Woes

You’re just around 200 lbs and you hit 3000 cals on NON-carb up days?

Your maintenance is around 15 * 200 = 3000 cals, so on non-carb up days, you are not in a deficit.

Please correct me if I misread your post.

[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
You’re just around 200 lbs and you hit 3000 cals on NON-carb up days?

Your maintenance is around 15 * 200 = 3000 cals, so on non-carb up days, you are not in a deficit.

Please correct me if I misread your post.[/quote]

I guess I thought the reason you lose weight on low/high carb diet is because of the low carbs not the calories. I had it wrong lol

[quote]optheta wrote:

I guess I thought the reason you lose weight on low/high carb diet is because of the low carbs not the calories. I had it wrong lol[/quote]

Well, it’s a combination of the two things. Think about it, if you ate 10,000 cals a day, but none from carbs, do you think you would lose weight? I know it’s obviously ridiculous, but sometimes you need to look at the extreme example to get any sense from all the confusing advice out there :slight_smile:

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