Has anyone else look better days AFTER carbing up? Precontest idea...

[dalvare1]

Hey guys,

So I am 5 weeks out from my show and I am debating doing things a little differently this year. Any help would be much appreciated!

Previously I have done the traditional thurs-saturday carbup, but I feel like this leaves me somewhat bloated and holding water on show day.

I have noticed that I feel like i ALWAYS look better a day or two AFTER carbing up and my carbs are back down to normal levels. I am much more crisp and my waist is much tighter and I dont feel like I lose any fullness.

So has anyone else experienced this? HAs anyone tried carbing up earlier in the week and then actually tapering carbs down a bit going into Saturday?


right now my carbs are between 150-300g of carbs depending on the day. (my Diet is low fat, high protein, med carb)

Sun-150g
Mon-200g
Tue-250g
Wed-400g
Thur-300g
Fri-200g
Sat- SHOW DAY, 2 mixed meals before prejudging

 

[The Dude]

Obviously the only way to know for sure is to try it, but I would do it at a warm up show. Personally my precontest diet is much different as I have an extremely fast metabolism and always battle peaking too early. I have, however, felt that I look better a couple days after so I took pics. I noticed that although I thought I looked better (and bigger) I lost quite a bit of fine detail and actually looked worse.