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Not at all and you start out going 10 days ULC so that should've answered your question.
I've been playing around with my carb nite cycles for 2 years. I once did carb nite every 6 days, so that it'd cycle along the week. Like one week it'd be on friday, the next week.. thursday.. week after.. wednesday. But I was gaining weight. Then I decided to do auto-regulating carb nite.. where if I lost weight the previous Friday, I'd push my carb nite to next friday.. and will keep pushing carb nite until I stopped losing weight. My longest running was 4 weeks.. and to be honest.. I didn't wanna go through that again. I realized if I go for so long without carbs.. and then I have my carb nite.. my body would feel way hotter, I'd start to sweat.. I couldn't go out in public.. I'd feel way more bloated the next day.The reason why I was playing with these cycles is because 7 days is too short for me. I can't lose weight if it's carb nite once a week. I don't know if it's because my body is holding on to my glycogen stores better than others.. I weight train every other day.. sprinkle in HIIT throughout the week.. and I do some cardio.. so I dunno.But it's only a month ago that I decided to do carb nite every 2 weeks.. 14 days. So far I've been feeling pretty good. I haven't noticed any weight drop.. but I don't feel like crap either.To prove that it's really my genetics.. and not my diet.. I have 4 other friends who I do this diet with as well. I give them all kinds of advice on what to eat.. when to eat.. and they do their carb nite 7 days a week. They all saw better results than I have. They look thinner and more toned.. where as I still got a lot of belly fat. However, I am the only one who got the most strength gains in the gym. For example, they improved their one rep max of their squat by 20% when starting out the diet. I improved my one rep max by 40%.
I've been trying to be more strict with my carb nites but i seem to be holding on to water weight for a longer period of time than I have in the past
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