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So I’ve been on carb nite for about 2 years now and I got awesome results. These last two years I did gain some weight back, and now I seems to stress about the diet, and making sure I’m getting the correct macros, etc. I don’t always count my macros perfectly I just make sure I’m getting fat and protein and staying under 30g each meal. I am constantly scared that by doing this in going to gain fat, and I know the stress only makes it worse. It seems that if there will be weeks where my weight does not go back down within 7 days of my carb nite and I’m just really stressing about what to do and how to not stress about this. I was just wondering if anybody has any suggestions and if I need to worry about gaining fat if I’m not counting macros exactly
What happens when you do the same thing in the gym day after training day?
A: for a while you progress until you adapt. then you just have gotten good at doing what you are doing day after day.Diet really isn’t that much different. You have adapted and have gotten very efficient at what you are doing (by eating the same way day after day, week after week, year after year).
Time for a change don’t you think?
Add a 2nd carb night. Not a full out CN, just a small carb meal with low fats in the evening.What would it hurt to have a 1/2 cup of rice mid stream between carb nights?
You might just be surprised with a positive result.
The eyes can't see what the mind doesn't understand.
How do you measure your weight/fat loss? I think a lot of the stress in dieting comes from an over-reliance and religious belief in what the scales tell us, and too little of how clothes fit and generally any other method by which you can measure. So my advice would be to ease up, don’t think too much about the numbers you see, follow the program like you have, don’t do what I did and push back carb nites until my weight went lower than what it was on the morning of the carb nite due what was purely happening on scale. Since stopping weighing everyday and thinking too much into things, I weigh purely on morning of carb nite and day after, just to gauge a trend/see if I went a little overboard etc.
With macros, I usually fall short everyday, but the one thing I do try to do, is even if I fall short I keep each meal in roughly the same ratios of what I’m aiming for. That way when I inevitably don’t met my actual macros, I still met a ratio that is in keeping with what I’m trying to actually meet. Worked with no problems so far (4-5 months) and keeps me off worrying and stressing about meeting the exact macros.
I am thinking about simply taking the left-over macros and making them up at the end of the day with coconut oil and whey, but I haven’t felt the need to really do that.. just yet.
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