Ive waited a long time for this kind of discussion. I've been studying carb cycling for myself for fun. I ran it for a fat loss phase from 20% body fat at 240lbs to 12% at 220lbs. During that fat loss phase, just like Justin said, I was actually able to build muscle during this time.
I've gone from 200 lbs to 225 in 3 months. But I can't seem to get above 225. Keep going to 225 and then back down to 220. I don't know what to do. If I add more calories I start adding too much fat. I don't have a gall bladder so fats digestion is an issue. Don't know how to find a bodybuilding diet guru to help in this situation. Any suggestions?
Justin, I'm getting some push back on eating the amount of fat your diets call for. Why are the added fats there in an off season setting on medium and low days instead of just running the minimum efa's needed, and moving those other calories all to carbs? Based on hearing you talk about your diet so much, I'm assuming the low days should only have enough carbs in them to facilitate recovery and the higher fats are there to fill in the calories needed to stay around maintenance or in a slight surplus. This should keep your insulin sensitivity higher than if you didn't eat the added fat and pushed more carbs... Is this correct or am I way off?
Does he ever do much higher than 10g fat/meal on low/med days? He uses 10g of fat for all the meals in his low day examples in another video. It seemed it could imply that 10g fat was a ceiling he never went over, but I'm not sure? Your comment seems to imply he does indeed make up the rest of the calories from fat on low days? Your assumption seems correct to me, and that's how I would do it. Because if we just cut carbs on low days, while also keeping fat super low... The calories would be so far below the other days... It would be like a mini crash diet, and you will feel like garbage doing that. I did it yesterday to test and it felt very catabolic. When I made up the calories with fat I felt dramatically better.
it beats meals where I follow my 8oz meat, 2c rice, 1c veg with a giant bowl of desert oatmeal to try and get closer to the calories I need for the day
Thanks so much for putting this on youtube! So much quality, practical information!
Ive waited a long time for this kind of discussion. I've been studying carb cycling for myself for fun. I ran it for a fat loss phase from 20% body fat at 240lbs to 12% at 220lbs. During that fat loss phase, just like Justin said, I was actually able to build muscle during this time.
Thanks for the feedback and your support!
I've gone from 200 lbs to 225 in 3 months. But I can't seem to get above 225. Keep going to 225 and then back down to 220. I don't know what to do. If I add more calories I start adding too much fat. I don't have a gall bladder so fats digestion is an issue. Don't know how to find a bodybuilding diet guru to help in this situation. Any suggestions?
Justin, I'm getting some push back on eating the amount of fat your diets call for. Why are the added fats there in an off season setting on medium and low days instead of just running the minimum efa's needed, and moving those other calories all to carbs? Based on hearing you talk about your diet so much, I'm assuming the low days should only have enough carbs in them to facilitate recovery and the higher fats are there to fill in the calories needed to stay around maintenance or in a slight surplus. This should keep your insulin sensitivity higher than if you didn't eat the added fat and pushed more carbs... Is this correct or am I way off?
Does he ever do much higher than 10g fat/meal on low/med days? He uses 10g of fat for all the meals in his low day examples in another video. It seemed it could imply that 10g fat was a ceiling he never went over, but I'm not sure? Your comment seems to imply he does indeed make up the rest of the calories from fat on low days? Your assumption seems correct to me, and that's how I would do it. Because if we just cut carbs on low days, while also keeping fat super low... The calories would be so far below the other days... It would be like a mini crash diet, and you will feel like garbage doing that. I did it yesterday to test and it felt very catabolic. When I made up the calories with fat I felt dramatically better.
@@ironhed515 With his big guys, 14g of added fats per meal is about as high as I've ever seen from him.
Justin Harris what's your opinion on the uncaused first cause?
If you do it long enough you will start loving the zero days.. or there is something wrong with me
it beats meals where I follow my 8oz meat, 2c rice, 1c veg with a giant bowl of desert oatmeal to try and get closer to the calories I need for the day