Firstly a little background: I’m from Hong Kong and have lived there for 18years where I ate pretty traditional chinese style meals e.g. lots of white rice.
My question is does eating so much carbs for so long make the body adapt to white rice as a carb source and therefore makes the body become less carb sensitive/more carb tolerant?
I’ve been on a carb cycling style diet for a couple months now, and last week I couldnt help but splurge on some pizza and other carb heavy foods. The days after these carbs up I noticed my body looking leaner than pre-carb up. which suggests to me that a) i should carb up more b) my body could probably handle more carbs than i intially though, possibly because of my previous white rice diet.
So do you think there is any credibility to my idea?
Well, I don’t have any proof of anything, but it’s been theorized that people of european descent are more lactose tolerant because of the hundreds of years of evolution around cows. Maybe, regions with more carb-based diets have populations which tolerate carbs better than average. My girlfriend is Filipino, and she swears that she’s genetically predisposed to carbs. I think she just likes to eat rice.
How long were you low carb, and how hard were you dieting/training, before having the unplanned carbup last week? The diet/training may have been putting a lot of stress on your body, which may have both depleted your muscle glycogen AND led to increased water retention. Eating a pizza or two might have caused your muscles to fill back up from the carbs, and the excess water to get flushed from your body. That’s a common reported effect of refeeds.
I’ve been carb cycling since start of Dec. 2 days high, 2 days low, 2 days off and one low protein day where I carb up.
The suggestions to carb up more often seems logical. But should I just increase carb intake on the low day or make one of my off days a carb up day as well?
Could schedule it so that the carb up days are 3/4 days apart