Does carb cycling work better than the Ketogenic diet?
A carb cycling diet is designed to help to reduce some of the negative effects of a ketogenic diet by allowing the body to replenish its carbohydrate stores on a periodic basis. During the carb depletion phase of the diet, the dieter reduces carb intake to almost nothing, and focuses on workouts that deplete the carbohydrate stores more quickly. Then the dieter eats a specified set of carbs to refill the body's carbohydrate stores; this is called a re-feed or carbo load. This gives the dieter the energy necessary to perform workouts the following week.
The second problem is that some people, when they get that whiff of “cheat” food, can’t stop and go off on a bender, also throwing a monkey wrench into their attempts at compliance.
Carb cycling could be anything from having two or three cheat/reward meals per week during a carb-restricted diet to having two or three very low carb days per week and eating a normal amount of carbs on other days. Carb cycling works best in people who are able to maintain a high degree of compliance, don’t succumb to cravings, and don’t have huge appetites. The reason for this is that it’s difficult to implement—you have to plan your meals fairly carefully. For most people, outside of hardcore gym-goers and competitors, this makes the compliance rate poor.
When selecting a ketogenic or carb cycling diet, your daily schedule must be a consideration. Any diet plan of this type requires very strict adherence. If you do not go into ketosis because you eat too many carbs, either at all or during the carb restriction phase of a cyclical diet, you may not experience the weight loss benefits you expected. Most people cannot remain in ketosis, either due to slipping up or simply because the amount of carbs needed to throw the dieter out of ketosis is so low. Before beginning a challenging diet like a ketogenic or carb cycling diet, consult your doctor to determine whether it will be safe for you.
If you have metabolic derangement, adrenal fatigue, hyper/hypothyroidism or imbalanced hormones, you will most likely benefit from replenishing your carb stores. In fact, if you’ve got any healing to do at all you are far better adding in some carb cycling to your keto diet. Try out evening carb meals and weekly/every few days and see how you feel.
Carb cycling means that you regularly have access to more nutrients from starchy vegetables.
Some women find that at times of ovulating and menstruating, the difference between carb cycling and not is pretty big and having a carb-refeed produces positive results. These are times of the month when we really need to support our hormones.
Overall, the thing is to listen to your body and test, test, test. Find out for yourself which way of eating gives you the best results in both physical and mental health.
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