Interesting concept. Glad you found what works for you. We all need to do that. Kudos for figuring it out!

Quinadal, I certainly shouldn't be giving advice, but I don't believe a difference of 200 calories between the two "extremes" is enough of a difference. If you look at Anita's first post, you'll see that there is a 500-calorie difference between the two. In other words, she cuts her calories by almost a third on her carb-down weeks. So, if your carb-up total is 2200, going by Anita's method your carb-down total should be around 1500.

But hey, what do I know?

This might be a good plan to try for a month or two. I finally got down to a couple pounds from my goal, but I would really like to go down about 10 more pounds to around 140 to 145. I haven't been there in almost 20 years, so I don't know if that's feasible.

Anita, I'll be following your thread. Could you perhaps post a typical day, both in carb-up and in carb-down?

THANKS!