Carb cycling

 Does anyone know exactly how this works?  How many carbs for how many days on the low and high days? 

Thanks!

 
My surgeon does not believe in the wig wag method.........

Consistency tends to beat wig waging...... problem with wig waging.....is you end up wigging when you should be wagging......

I never did it..... kept my carbs at 40grams or below and lost 190lbs. in 13 months.

In maintenance now I use 80grams a day as a baseline.

Most overweight people tend to be carb/sugar sensitive..... carbs and sugar can also stimulate hunger.

The key is to get on the best known WL plan for the VSG and lose the weight...... It's simple really....don't over think it.....learn as you go keeping yourself on plan.

Stalls happen.....just trudge through it...... And don't get stalls confused with eating to much......

Get to goal weight...... than in maintenance you can get experimental to define your tolerances.

Soooooo many people get sucked into lots of "Alternative" miss information here on OH and end up having a more difficult time than necessary.

I used to say follow your doctors plan....... don't say it anymore cause there are some VERY WONKY plans out there.........

frisco

Just my 2cents:

Carb cycling is a behavior thing. It justifies eating more food a couple days a week then restricting.

Mentally, I wasn't willing to deal with it. Consistency, constant effort, tracking food intake and knowing that if I put in the effort, I would lose weight.

For me carb cycling, 5 days low carb, 2 days eat whatever you want, those 2 days become the 5 days and so forth then what happens. Back to dieting, back to beating myself up because of a gain. And, a "towel thrown in" mentality takes over.

It reminds me of all the "Woman's World" article headlines of "I Lost 15lbs in 10 DAYS eating whatever I want diet". They neglect to print that those 15 pounds came right back within 3 months.

Listening to the above vets helped me lose 193 lbs in 10 months.  I'm just about at goal and can't thank them enough.  Staying consistent is the way to go.

Jen, YOU FLIPPIN ROCK ! ! !

 
WHAT !!!!!

Didn't you get the memo ???

Men are supposed to lose much faster than women !!!!!

Just Awesome !!!!

So much for carb cycling !!!!

frisco

 Thank you everyone! Frisco and USAwife, I have been reading your posts forever and they keep me going so I cant thank you enough.  The reason why I was thinking about this carb cycling thing is because I have been stuck at a plateua for about 7 weeks now and I dont know what to do.  I have been following the plan, keeping my calories between 600-700 and every day the scale wont budge.  I am a band to sleeve revision and lost 100 with the band until it failed.  I had a revision to the sleeve a little over 2 months ago, lost a quick 18 pounds the first 2 weeks and then completely stopped losing ever since.  I keep bouncing up and down 3-4 pounds but cant get lower.  Every morning i step on the scale and want to cry because I restrict myself so much the day before and see no results.  I got frustrated and posted on here asing if anyone knew what I could do, and someone mentioned carb cycling to break the plateau.  I hear what you guys are saying and I trust you so much that I will do whatever you think is right, I just feel so desperate.  I know everyone hits the plateua, but mine has lasted way too long.  Dont know what else to do. 

 How much more weight do you need to lose to get to goal? How much are you moving/activity level wise? How much clear fluids are you taking in?

Just what I've witnessed over my years is that when someone does the cycling thing, a stall might break with a loss, and then comes the hell of getting back on track trying to not only control carb intake but calorie intake as well. It's a slippery slope for me. I'm not saying to not do it, but if you have issues pulling back in the reins, just recognize it before it gets out of hand and you're back to being upset because you're at 1000 calories, 100grams of carbs and can't seem to kic those last 15-30 pounds. 

Ive seen plenty of stall busters. Consistently, the loss is a few pounds and then BAM another stall and once you go up on intake, it's hell to go back down. 


My own personal experience was with my last pregnancy. I was eating 1700-1800 calories a day, dropped the first 25 of the 35 I gained. Trying to get those last 10 pounds off, I had to get back down to 900 calories, less than 50grams of carbs. I can tell you that not only wasn't hard, it was mentally draining and I wanted to throat punch my husband more times than I care to count the first week. Grant it, I was already pregnant again and didn't know it, but I was totally pissed off trying to get my structure back. 

 I have 30 more pounds to go to get to goal.  I am not the best at getting water in, but I probably get about 50-60 oz a day.  I am on my feet all day long, running around.  When I get home, I literally cant move.  On the days when I feel a little better, I get to the gym.  But, usually my legs are so sore I cant do it.  When I was about 3 or 4 weeks into the stall, I decided to try exercise to break out of it.  I went to the gym almost every day and worked out like crazy and still did not lose at all.  After that I firgured there was no point in pushing myself to the point of collapsing if it wasnt even going to work.  I have tried everything to get out of this.  

Have you tried weight training? It helps to preserve your lean muscle mass, which will burn more calories at rest. This will keep your metabolism humming along.