Best Way To Lose Weight: Advanced Fat Loss

Just as with a normal fat-loss routine, your body can achieve homeostasis even when you're calorie-cycling.

The good news is that you can make little tweaks to your calorie-cycle routine to prevent the dreaded weight-loss plateaus you're working so hard to avoid.

One of the best adjustments is called carb cycling.

With carb cycling, you'll essentially set the amount of fat and protein you're going to eat every day, and keep that steady for a few weeks. The difference is, on low-carb days, you'll eat a max of 50-75 grams of carbs per day. On high-carb days, you'll spike that intake significantly (and have all of the extra calories from a mix of simple and complex carbohydrates). This will kickstart your pancreas and hypothalamus into producing a bunch of insulin and leptin for your carbohydrate-starved body.

Carb cycling is a great introduction to calorie cycling - it can give you immediate benefits if you're not yet ready for the major planning around dramatically dropping calories for days at a time. Basically, you'll still end up doing calorie cycling too, but it won't "seem" as difficult or time-consuming to set up. Just eat less carbs on your "low" or non-workout days. Simple.

Just like with calorie cycling, I recommend 3 days low carb followed by 1-day high carb (or a "carb up", which is similar to the leptin reset phase that we've discussed.) You can also try alternating low/high carb based on your workouts.

Figures for a carb-cycling routine

Day	Percentage	Notes
Low Carb Days	50-75 grams of carbs daily (men and/or heavier people can eat closer to 75 grams)	Do lighter workouts or cardio on low carb days (or, no workouts depending on your plan)
High Carb Day	30% of your TDEE as carbs	Save your biggest, hardest strength workouts for these days.

2-week outline for a 3-day low carb, 1-day high carb program

A	Monday	Tuesday	Wed.	Thursday	Friday	Sat.	Sunday
Week 1	Low Carb	Low Carb	Low Carb	High Carb	Low Carb	Low Carb	Low Carb
A	Monday	Tuesday	Wed.	Thursday	Friday	Sat.	Sunday
Week 2	High Carb	Low Carb	Low Carb	Low Carb	High Carb	Low Carb	Low Carb

Reminder: Make sure to schedule your heaviest workouts (usually involving major use of the chest, back or legs) for high-carb days.

WARNING: Both of the cycling strategies above are for advanced or highly-dedicated trainees only. They will produce amazing results if done correctly. But do them wrong, or slip up occasionally, and you will not be happy with your results. (I personally half-assed calorie/carb cycling the first time around, and spent 2 months with ZERO progress.)

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Read the previous article about "Advanced Fat Loss - Part I: Calorie Cycling"

Read the next article about "Advanced Fat Loss - Part III: Intermittent Fasting"

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