I'm back!! Need support!

[Firecracker]

Hello ladies!!

Wow, I've been gone for awhile, huh? Sorry I haven't posted, I moved, got engaged, started a new job, yaddya yaddya...

I've been working out, but not like I have been when I was on the boards.

I have 8 weeks to my wedding with the following stats:

5'5''
140
19.7 (handheld bf tester)
27 waist

In your honest opinion, what should my %'s be to get to 14 %?

I wanna look HAWT in my dress AND at the beach!

Thanks ya'll, good to be back!

 

[Sassy69]

If you're serious & you have time w/ all the stress, wedding prep, etc. I'd drop into something like some competition prep and start the magic!

It may take a couple weeks to get whatever diet you end up following to kick in but I'd look at a pile of cardio (good hiit sessions), good lifting & a carb rotation diet - probably a 40/30/30 and then do a 3 day carb rotation within that.

 

[Firecracker]

If you're serious & you have time w/ all the stress, wedding prep, etc. I'd drop into something like some competition prep and start the magic!

It may take a couple weeks to get whatever diet you end up following to kick in but I'd look at a pile of cardio (good hiit sessions), good lifting & a carb rotation diet - probably a 40/30/30 and then do a 3 day carb rotation within that.

I'm mega serious! I have no choice but to be tip top in my dress! I re-did my diet tonight and came up with 55%f, 31%p, and 15%c. Since I only have 8 weeks, isn't ketosis the way to go with 1/day a week carb up?

 

[Sassy69]

Honestly I haven't heard a lot about women running a CKD -- you might check the diet board a little more on that. Me personally - I fu&'in hate low carbing & the pain of getting into ketosis & trying to function until the next carb up just isnt' worth it. I swear by carb cycling and will continue to recommend it & use it in all my cutting cycles. I don't know about you, but on my 3-4 day of low carbing I get monumentally stupid & tired. This makes for screwing up my sleep schedule (want to nap all day, so you nap, then can't sleep at nite) and I have no energy to hit the gym hard. Personally I dont' see the point. I've cut down to less than 8% using carb cycling. I don't know what diet or whatever you've been following up to right now - if you haven't' been dieting and then start dieting, it always seems to take 2-3 weeks to get it to kick in so you have to be patient & not get frustrated. But when it starts, it does start. You would see some results w/ water dropped but the more important thing is that you want to set up an efficient fuel burning state. I just think CKD screws that and the cost of waiting to get to the carb up day is just pure misery. If I were you, I'd rather have the energy to get thru all the stress & prep instead of being tired all the time and having that affect your ability to focus on your wedding prep.

 

[Ulter]

Well you know me. I say use some shortcuts.

SesaPure/Glucorell combo
Cardio Breeze for cardio

CKD is not necessary IMO and certainly a bad choice if you're going to train. Great if you're sedentary though.

 

[Sassy69]

Couldn't have said it better myself!

 

[Firecracker]

Ugh! Someone at my gym told me to try CKD since I only have 8 weeks, said it was kinda the quickie way. Sassy, so you think I would get better results with your ideas? I'm ok with low carbs, it's really not a big deal to me since I'm always on the road working. I'm willing to try something else if you all think it's better.

Thanks ya'll!

 

[Sassy69]

Well like I said, if you run more than 4 days on really low carb (e.g. below 30g), you really start getting fuzzy in the brain & tired. That can affect your sleep & your energy levels. I just haven't heard of that many women doing CKD. Don't know why, just haven't. The carb rotation just seems to me to be optimal and doesn't put you through that.

 

[Firecracker]

Well like I said, if you run more than 4 days on really low carb (e.g. below 30g), you really start getting fuzzy in the brain & tired. That can affect your sleep & your energy levels. I just haven't heard of that many women doing CKD. Don't know why, just haven't. The carb rotation just seems to me to be optimal and doesn't put you through that.

Sas:

right now i'm at about 50g carbs. Can you tell me how the carb rot works? What do you do? Thanks!

 

[Sassy69]

Hey girl - dont' have a lot of time to type right now, but here's a quick Google result on it:

http://www.google.com/search?source...4,SUNA:en&q="carb+cycling"+or+"carb+rotation"