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Let's say you are running a low carb diet 75-100g a day while maintaining a 500-700 calorie a day deficit.
Do you do a weekly or bi-weekly carb refeed?
When you do this carb load to you try to stay around maintenance calories or slightly below or do you just add in carbs to the current plan for the bolus of calories.??
I would think that not being in major calorie deficit (1000+ per day) that you would not need a big calorie intake to stimulate metabolism.
For instance if the subject is taking in 50g Protein , 15g fat and 15g carbs per meal (6 a day) for their daily diet giving roughly 2370 calories fats coming from leaner meat and carbs coming from vegetables.
Would doing something like eating 13 poptarts through out the day (26g Protein , 455g carbs in , 58g fat close in calories)
Be a safer way to carb up and not blow the calories up??
What's everyone opinions and why?
Do you do a weekly or bi-weekly carb refeed?
When you do this carb load to you try to stay around maintenance calories or slightly below or do you just add in carbs to the current plan for the bolus of calories.??
I would think that not being in major calorie deficit (1000+ per day) that you would not need a big calorie intake to stimulate metabolism.
For instance if the subject is taking in 50g Protein , 15g fat and 15g carbs per meal (6 a day) for their daily diet giving roughly 2370 calories fats coming from leaner meat and carbs coming from vegetables.
Would doing something like eating 13 poptarts through out the day (26g Protein , 455g carbs in , 58g fat close in calories)
Be a safer way to carb up and not blow the calories up??
What's everyone opinions and why?