New Article on Carb Cycling for Women

Here is a snippet and link to a good article on carb cycling that I just read...

Carb Cycling for Women
Plan Your Week to Reshape Your Body
by Christian Thibaudeau

Tomorrow morning, flip on the local weather channel. You'll probably see the "five day forecast," that tells you the weather for the coming week.

If they predict it's going to be 95 degrees and sunny on Monday, and then say you'll get 15 inches of snow on Tuesday, you know what to expect. Not only are you in the middle of the weirdest storm ever recorded, but more importantly, you know exactly what you'll be wearing each day.

We can apply this same concept to our weekly diet plan to help us gain lean muscle and lose bodyfat. This approach is called carb cycling, and it's being used by bodybuilders and figure competitors to drop bodyfat consistently and effectively.

It's based on rotating your carbohydrate intake each day, depending on the amount of exercise you have planned. More training... you get more carbs. No training that day... less carbs on the menu.

In my original carb cycling article, I went into detail about the history of carb cycling, as well as discussing how you can manipulate nutrient intake to affect your body's hormone levels. But for now, let's learn how to make it work for you.

Carb Cycling: The Basic Structure

Carb cycling is similar to the nutritional practice of eating carbs only in the morning, and after workouts. The biggest difference is that the amount of carbs (and thus, the amount of calories) will vary each day. What will this accomplish?

• It allows you to have fat burning and muscle building days each week.

• Your metabolism never gets a chance to slow down or adapt, which often happens with "traditional" diets.

• Long-term success is reinforced because it's relatively easy to follow, especially compared to more strict, low-carb diets.

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Here is the link for the rest of this long and super info packed article - along with great pics that I couldn't include!

Carb Cycling for Women Article (con't)

Please let me know what you thought - is this something you will incorporate to some degree? I am doing only higher and lower days right now (not three different levels), and will let you know what I see in terms of results!

Karla