Single high carb meals

[farrahstar]

I am wondering if anyone else is doing Atkins the way I am. Wrong....I know I follow induction to the T then one time each week I eat a high carb meals, a reward meal if you must. I stop putting carbs in my mouth with in 60 minutes to get just that one blood sugar jump. I do remember Dr. Atkins mentioning this in the original book. Anyone else giving this a try?

[kristinaInWa2003]

I remember a long time ago when I first did this, one day a week I would splurge and go right back on. It did slow me down a bit, and I wouldn't do it now as I have a LOT more weight to lose this time.

[VivianRN]

Hi, all, this is my first post-I'm so glad to find you guys here!

Carb-loading is part of the Cyclic Ketogenic Diet used by weightlifters. They do this once a week. It also works to push yourself off of a plateau when you have stopped losing weight.

Usually it lasts for four hours, but one hour would work.

Vivian

[kristinaInWa2003]

Welcome!

[racbea]

does anyone have more info on this...

[kristinaInWa2003]

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[racbea]

So, is this working for you? It sounds like it would be great if it did!

[kristinaInWa2003]

I probably won't try adding carbs for any amount of time...I ate at a potluck last Saturday (one meal, then right back on...no sugar though) and I was stalled for a quite a while...and then even gained 8 pounds when I had fried pork rinds and a couple of diet pops)

[farrahstar]

I 'cheat' one time weekly. I do it within 60 minutes and carb it up! I do it based on two theories; One: your body sends out only one insulin response if you stop eating within 60 minutes, so you reduce your damage. Two: If you eat a reduced (highly reduced) calorie diet, which many of us low carb'ers do, your body will stop fat lose if it worries about intake. My personal trainer says the way to combat this is to eat a high calorie/carb meal one time weekly. This way your body says "all is well starvation is not an issue". I also think sometimes a high carb break will get you over a hump. It may slow down weight loss for some. It helps to keep me on my diet and honest.

[skeeweeaka]

Originally Posted by farrahstar

I 'cheat' one time weekly. I do it within 60 minutes and carb it up! I do it based on two theories; One: your body sends out only one insulin response if you stop eating within 60 minutes, so you reduce your damage. Two: If you eat a reduced (highly reduced) calorie diet, which many of us low carb'ers do, your body will stop fat lose if it worries about intake. My personal trainer says the way to combat this is to eat a high calorie/carb meal one time weekly. This way your body says "all is well starvation is not an issue". I also think sometimes a high carb break will get you over a hump. It may slow down weight loss for some. It helps to keep me on my diet and honest.

Oh, so your trainer has you doing this... Since I lose slow anyway, I have tried this to help me to speed up the weight loss but it didn't notice a difference with or without it... So sometimes I'm more inclined to have the one meal carb up just to stay on track...

TJ

[Knittin' Fool]

This sounds like the basic idea of the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, only they do it once a day. In the original version, you would eat low carb all day, then have a "Reward Meal" that consisted of absolutely anything you wanted...but you had to be done in 60 minutes. The later version stated that the Reward Meal had to be balanced, 1/3 protein, 1/3 veggie, 1/3 carb.

The idea was that, because you're eating low carb most of the time, your body doesn't react the same way to the carb load as it would if you'd been chowing carbs all day.

I'm probably not describing this very well, but I think there's a section for CAD around here somewhere...