Thread: Carb cycling
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Old Wed, Oct-25-17, 19:57
dcc0455 dcc0455 is offline
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Originally Posted by FatBGone17
Thanks for the answers. Let me be clear, I'm not looking for a reason to increase my carb intake, just asking if there is a valid healthful reason to periodically do so.

Cookies and other baked sweets are my crack and I'd just as soon avoid them forever, but if eating a few sweet potatoes or beets, maybe a small bowl of coarse rolled or steel cut oats for breakfast, for say a weekend once a month actually had benefit, I'd consider it. I've found lots of anecdotal "evidence" and opinions on carb cycling, but not much hard science.


I don't know if it is valid or bunk, but there are a lot of youtube videos that promote carb cycling to restore hormones that are diminished when eating low carb. It might make sense to me to do it every 3 or 6 months, but it seems inefficient to go in and out of ketosis every couple weeks, when it can take up to a week or longer to get back in.
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