Headaches on carb cycling diet?

[mus1cjunk1e]

I just started carb cycling at the beginning of last week. So far I'm loving it but I noticed that this week I've been having headaches almost every day. They seem to start about an hour after I get to work (about 9:30 am). Once I eat some advil they go away for the most part and I am able to work out after work and I'm fine later at night, but I don't want to eat advil every friggin day. I'm not doing no carb on my low days just around 140g and about 325g on my high days. Every day I am getting at least 320g protein.

I did a little research online and noticed that people doing Atkins and similar diets get headaches at the beginning but they go away after a week or so. However since I am cycling carbs I never really fully go on a low carb diet. Am I going to get headaches every week? Maybe my carbs are too low on my low carb days?

A little side note, I ate a little extra carbs last weekend so I lowered my carbs a little extra on monday so maybe that made a difference from the week before?

I'm just looking for anyone that has experience with carb cycling to chime in. I can post my diet up if you want to see it.

 

[mwm5]

can you post up what your diet is going to look like on this "cycle." i have been researching and curious

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

Carb cycling should not cause headaches, especially not in the morning hours after eating your carbs. If you were to get headaches it would be late in the day when cutting your carbs out or you could wake up with one. The only time I got headaches was when I was doing strictly low carb, cycling eliminated any issue I had had on my last cutter.

But yeah, please post up your average daily diet.

-Legacy

 

[SpyWizard]

Imagine that.. the brain does need carbs, just get them from veggies..

 

[mus1cjunk1e]

Here's my diet. I figured the easiest way to post it would be to take screen shots of the spreadsheet that I made. The first week I used Wed and Sat as my high days. This week I decided to try doing Mon-Fri low and Sat-Sun high because it is easiest for me to stick to a diet during the work week. I don't think the extra time on low carbs caused the problems because I started getting the headaches on monday. Now I did go out last saturday night as well but I only had 2 drinks the whole night and I don't see that causing headaches for an entire week.

 

[mus1cjunk1e]

I attached the actual spreadsheet to this post for anyone that may be interested in using it as a basis for their diet or just for information.

Today the headache seems worse than usual. I took 2 extra strength tylenols (couldn't find any advil) and it isn't horrible anymore but its just a dull pain and it hasn't gone away completely. Its always in the back right part of my head, almost my neck, but the pain goes out to the whole right side of my head and down my trap a little.

 

[mwm5]

I attached the actual spreadsheet to this post for anyone that may be interested in using it as a basis for their diet or just for information.

Today the headache seems worse than usual. I took 2 extra strength tylenols (couldn't find any advil) and it isn't horrible anymore but its just a dull pain and it hasn't gone away completely. Its always in the back right part of my head, almost my neck, but the pain goes out to the whole right side of my head and down my trap a little.

your the man!!!! i have been researching to find these figures. I'm new to the counting deal

 

[mus1cjunk1e]

your the man!!!! i have been researching to find these figures. I'm new to the counting deal

2 good sites that I use to check nutritional values:
http://www.thedailyplate.com/
http://www.nutritiondata.com/

Sometimes you will see the same thing with different info on different sites. I try to just compare 2 or 3 sites and use my good judgment.

 

[mus1cjunk1e]

I'm also entertaining the possibility that I am getting the headaches either from being a little sick or from just being on low cals in general (not necessarily because of low carbs). But they are getting kinda annoying. At least they haven't affected my workouts yet.

 

[silverskyline]

Hey Junkie bro I'm about to start Carb Cycling as well! Shit man if head aches are the wrost your gettin I'd say your ok at least your it's not durring your lifts or effecting them!

I want to check out your diet sched but can't open it from my office. I will check it out hopefully tonight, either that or if I PM you my email maybe you could send it over that way.

Didnt you just come off? I was going to cut now and carb cycle but figured I might wait a bit so I can retain as much as possable after the gear then once that settels cut in Early April for the summer.

Good luck bro!