Carb Cycling

As promised this blog will be about carb cycling. This plays a huge role in the Wiefit diet for losing fat. Again it is an idea that is fairly new to the nutrition world and is becoming more and more popular. Basically how it works is by cycling carbs. It can be a day to day thing or even month to month. If it is day to day, the person on the diet may go 4 days with little or no carbs then the next three eat healthy carbs in their diet. In a month to month scenario the person will go a month with a low carb diet then a month with a healthy diet involving carbs. This works by tricking the body into using fat for energy. Once again I stress that the first source of energy the body wants to use is the glycogen stored in the body. By cutting carbohydrates, the glycogen is removed from the muscle and the body turns to the fat for energy. However, before your body goes to muscle for the energy, you will give your body carbs again which will be stored as glycogen, because your muscles are running low on it. With this process, you will get similar results to a low carb diet without cannibalizing muscle mass and without the many other drawbacks associated with a low-carb diet.