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I started CBL about a week ago, after a month-long keto diet. I started at around 164.5 lbs, and after my first backload, I was down to 163. The next morning, I was pretty flat, as I hadn't taken in enough carbs. I've been toying with it and trying to figure out exactly how to get Kiefer's suggested amount for a backload (574g for 165lbs), and some mornings I'll wake up ripped, while other mornings, not so much.Since then, even with 10-16 hour fasting periods, I've just been gaining weight. Yesterday was a zero carb day, so I fasted until ~2pm (coconut oil at 10am). 8 slices of bacon, 3 whole eggs with salad for my first meal, and beef for my last two meals. I went to sleep at 170 and woke up at the exact same weight.I know the reintroduction of carbs probably threw some water weight at me, but the first few days of backloading also had me waking up lighter than I was the night before. Am I doing something wrong?
Unscientific explanation:Maybe after the first few backloads your body was kind of "confused". I noticed the same thing, weight loss whenever i pushed the carbs even higher. At some point your body seems to adapt though and you regain water weight. If you come from a keto diet then a weight gain of 6lbs is pretty normal I'd say.. Dont worry!
Cool, kind of relieving to hear haha.I will say that since my second backload at the beginning of this week, I haven't been able to get my bloat to disappear by morning, and my abs and other striations haven't been quite as visible. I only get around 6.5-7 hours of sleep because of my work, but I'm also eating ice cream right up until the time I go to bed.
Yeah coming from a Keto-type diet already, I'm sure it is a lot of water weight. I can gain between 5-10lbs after a Carb Nite and/or backload. I would say as long as your making visual progress and measurements (besides the scale) is look good then it'll be alright.
So, the other night was the closest I had gotten to Kiefer's specified carb intake for my weight, and I was still off by quite a bit because my stomach lining is still pretty shrunken from my previous diet. Woke up feeling bloated. Bloat aside, you're saying I should still try taking in more carbs to look less flat? (Or in this case, round)
It totally depends on what you eat.Ive bloated on 400g of carbs, looked fine (a bit flat though) on 400g of carbs, bloated on 700g of carbs and looked shredded on 700g of carbs.Worst thing for me are pizza and pasta. Just doesnt work, im always bloated and get digestion issues (probably gluten related).Give me half a gallon of icecream though and im shredded all the time. And happy - because who doesnt like to destroy half a gallon of ice cream 5 days a week?!
Your body will respond differently to different forms of carbohydrate just based on your physiology. That's one of the big reasons the Paleo diet has taken ahold of so many of us. Not just because it's a very clean way of eating and pretty simple, but it also goes back to the very basics of what our body can process efficiently. Typical research studies have shown that since the advent of agriculture and growing of grains as foodstuffs that the population has had an increase in disease forms. Take celiac disease for instance. It's very common for people to develop this condition and not even know that they have it, since you may just get a intestinal discomfort, diarrhea, bloating, lactose intolerance. The walls of the intestines become damaged and stop absorbing nutrients efficiently, causing the symptoms. All because of gluten, which is found in wheat, barley, rye, and oats that we commonly eat. Some people develop it and don't recognize it, since the symptoms are quite common and often ignored. The person goes on a non-gluten diet and the body goes back to normal.Number two, carbohydrates require water for storage. For every molecule of glucose stored in the body as glycogen, you have 3 molecules of water. Excessive water weight or bloating will occur if you overload carbohydrates beyond the bodies ability to store it. In bodybuilding circles we call this spillage. If you're carbohydrates are too high you will find this to be the case, along with sodium levels. The body is used to excreting excess water from high fat, high protein dieting, so that when you add in carbohydrate again it causes a fluctuation in ADH causing you to retain more water. If you don't have enough places to store the excessive carbohydrates your body will hold onto it in the extracellular tissue.I'd say best case scenario you try other carbohydrate forms that you can digest easily. Notice how you feel the following morning and how your 'spillage' is affected. v/rGremlin
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