Carb Nite Solution and Carb Backloading

[BestSinceDAYONE]

Not sure if you guys have heard of this guy, John Kiefer. He is a low carb advocate but implementing a 1 day refeed every week with high GI carbs to reset thyroid level output.

Carb backloading is basically go fat / protein based in the morning, no carbs before training and then after lifting slam the high GI carbs and they should go to fo refill muscle.


What say you?

 

[MidBicep]

Not sure if you guys have heard of this guy, John Kiefer. He is a low carb advocate but implementing a 1 day refeed every week with high GI carbs to reset thyroid level output.

Carb backloading is basically go fat / protein based in the morning, no carbs before training and then after lifting slam the high GI carbs and they should go to fo refill muscle.


What say you?

Getting even as low as 200g of sugar a day makes me miserable.

 

[BestSinceDAYONE]

Getting even as low as 200g of sugar a day makes me miserable.

Unfortunately, carbs make me fat...

 

[ALS]

"A large carbohydrate meal increases the ratio of tryptophan to the competing amino acids, and it has been proposed that this can shift the body’s balance toward increased serotonin. In an animal study, bromocriptine, which shifts the balance away from serotonin, reduced obesity and insulin and free fatty acids, and improved glucose tolerance.


All of these observations are easiest to understand in terms of the suppression of cellular energy. Serotonin, like estrogen, lowers cellular ATP and interferes with oxidative metabolism." Serotonin, depression, and aggression - The problem of brain energy.

On the other hand, you need a certain amount of carbs (like fruit) to process thyroid hormone.

 

[MidBicep]

Unfortunately, carbs make me fat...

I've become quite sedentary the past two weeks and I've been eating to appetite yet my body looks the same. Oranges and sucrose work wonders on the body.

 

[OccamzRazer]

Not sure if you guys have heard of this guy, John Kiefer. He is a low carb advocate but implementing a 1 day refeed every week with high GI carbs to reset thyroid level output.

Carb backloading is basically go fat / protein based in the morning, no carbs before training and then after lifting slam the high GI carbs and they should go to fo refill muscle.


What say you?

It's a good approach.

Beginning carb consumption during the workout, as opposed to right after, may result in lower cortisol/stress.

Martin Berkhan does something similar, but he keeps most PWO meals almost fat-free to minimise de novo lipogenesis. Berkhan is strong...and shredded! The problem with getting this strict is palatability. Most of the tastiest foods contain both carbz and fat!

Anyways...this approach is great in theory, pretty Peaty, and it works for many people. It hasn't worked for me yet, but will probably try it again at some point.