Had this pop in my head this morning and wanted to get it down here.
It dawned on me how easy the Velocity Diet makes carb cycling if one wants to go that route. Primarily because I realize this is effectively what I’ve been doing these past few weeks. I logged on Sunday the full on carby goodness I engaged in at an awesome “farm to table” event, which included homemade buttermilk biscuits with local honey, sweet corn, squash, sugary sauces, smores with homemade marshmallows, and apple dumplings in caramel sauce made from apples picked right off the orchid
and capped off with a homemade caramel. None of it junk, but absolutely carb heavy cuisine, especially for someone that stays primarily carnivore for all of my other meals. This was the day after my strongman competition, where I was QUITE carb depleted by the end of it,
and this morning (Wed), my abs were showing far more definition and fullness, and in general I was looking larger and leaner. This tends to be how this always goes after my weekly carb up meal, and I’m finding that, the more I lean into it, the better the outcome.
But where does Velocity come in? Because, ideally, I’ll make these carby meals my “Healthy Solid Meal” (HSM) of the day…even if it’s absolutely NOT “healthy”. They’ll still be my ONE meal of the day. And in this instance, it’s a VERY high carb meal…but the rest of my day is JUST protein, with trace carbs and fats from Metabolic Drive. And the day after that high carb HSM? I’ll, once again, keep it Velocity, rely on shakes until I get to the end of the day, in which case I can decide if I want to have a higher fat meal or STILL keep it lean and make it more like a protein sparing modified fasting day (similar to how the OG Velocity Diet would operate, where it was one solid meal a WEEK vs a day).
If I WAS a carb eater, I could attempt to modulate the carbs in the HSM to have high, medium and low days and REALLY nail the whole “carb cycling” thing. As it stands, I’m more employing it like a [Cyclical Ketogenic Diet, which is also awesome. But along with this, what I dig is that this can still abide by the principles of Velocity Diet that you don’t need to do any counting or calculations to make this successful. IF, one restricts themselves to minimally processed carbohydrate sources (so stay away from breakfast cereal, ala Dave Tate), I feel they won’t need to be concerned about overeating carbs and spilling out on the high carb day, but can STILL meet the intent of eating high carbs AND get the results of losing fat with Velocity. Quite literally have your cake and eat it too. If attempting to employ a “high-medium-low” approach with carbs, I feel like the lever to pull is the fat in the HSM VIA the protein. If the goal is to eat MORE carbs, select a lean protein source (chicken breasts, shrimp, grassfed sirloin, tuna, etc). The protein will be less satiating, which will allow more carbs to be eaten. For medium days, medium fatty feats. For low carb days, VERY fatty meats. Heck, if you want to keep making this simple, just use ground beef. Use the 93-96% lean stuff on the high carb days, use the 80% stuff on the medium, and use the 70% stuff for the low day.
I feel like I could flesh this out a bit more, but I really dig where it’s going.