Carb Cycling - My First Time

The night before I weighed myself at 190 pounds and did the calculations and came up with this for my high day.

~475g of carbs
~237g of protein
~very little fat

My meals went as:

Breakfast: 6 egg whites, 1 c. oatmeal, 1 c. milk

Mid-morning: 1 c. rice, 2 chicken breasts

Lunch: 1 c. rice, 2 chicken breasts (the other half of the little caserole I had made, failed to eat all of it though, salad

Pre-workout: 50g protein shake, 2/3 c. yams

Post-workout: spagetti

Supper: 2 fish fillets, salad

Pre-bed: 1/2 c. cottage cheese

This added up to 488g of carbs, 288g of protein, 16.5g of fat, but I probably got a little less of the carbs/protein.

Any tips? I am having trouble finding ways to get that many carbs in without getting bored of what I’m eating. For my range of carbs/protein/fats for each of the high/medium/low days, do I need to pick a number (top of the range or low), or do I just need to keep it in between.

Example: high day, 2-3g carbs per lb. bodyweight. Do I do 2, 3, or 2-3?

Any tips on following this diet would be appreciated.

drink your calories. Always worked for me. Hell, I remember back when the original Biotest Mag-10 Prohormone came out. My lunches while taking it consisted of 2 tuna sandwiches on whole wheat, a banana, and a myoplex shake as my beverage. Most people would just have the shake, or the sandwich and then complain that they eat a lot but can’t gain weight.

S

Does everything else look pretty decent for a high day though?

Well, I guess it depends if you’re carb cycling UP, or DOWN, also your own individual carb tolerance. I don’t think I went above 350g of carbs on my high days (when dieting), but I’ve never really been a big carb fiend, probably from consciously trying to monitor how much I was ingesting (once I stopped running on a regular basis, I couldn’t just load 'em in anymore).
The bottom line I tell most people I help with their diets is that you have to try something in order to see if it’s working or not. My first instinct is to say tone the carbs back a wee bit, but I could be completely off base in as far as how your body deals with them. Try this out for two weeks and see if you’re moving in the desired direction.

S