Black 57: There's no reason to try to gain weight. Just don't let yourself go over about 2 pounds. Sometimes I gain weight, sometimes I don't (check my sig line). I usually have a planned number of days, corresponding to my vacations, whether or not a weekend is coming up, etc. I would carbup, I THINK, for a minimum of 3 days. As you can see, mine have always been longer and I'm doing very well. This carb up that I am on now will last until Sunday, 7 days, because I want to enjoy my weekend, and I think I need a good carb recharge!

So, depending on your schedule you might want to carb up through the weekend, then hit the carb down Monday. If that suits you. Or, maybe weekends would be easier for you to carb down. Whatever works for you. Make it fit your schedule. And remember, basically the rules for carb down are Atkins Induction.

You can tweak this to make it work for you, but I definitely would not purposely try to gain, or wait to go back to carb down until I had gained.

Hope that helps!