Keto Dieting/When to Cheat(Carb up)?

[enrage]

For those of you who are or have been on Keto diets, how long did you wait before you had your cheat day(carb up day)? I'm on week 3 so far and was thinking that I could just wait and hold out till Thanksgiving. I Figured that would be a good day to pack in the calories. Any thoughts on this?

 

[diamonddiceclay]

the longer you hold out the better-but most people carb up on sat,sun every week

 

[the_paradise_garage]

i think you should carb up every weekend, at least only one day if your working out...

 

[KillerLoop]

Do not think of the carb up as a cheat day, it should be far from it.

 

[KWKSLVR]

It depends on the specific diet.

If i were to carb up once a week on Atkins, i'd screw myself over. And i mean really car up, not just a few grams. A lot of people use it as a strategy to jump start their metabolism and speed up weight loss when it has come to a stand still. Basically they return to an old way of eating for a few days, then return to low LOW carbs (20/day or less) and let their body's return to Ketosis.

The only problem with carbing up once a week (if your TRYING to loose weight) is that your spending half of your week out of ketosis instead of in.

 

[Mr.X]

If you can hold out until thanksgiving then DO so...the longer you are in Ketosis, the more fat-loss you achieve....hold your body in Ketosis and cheat on thanksgiving...it'll bring about very good results..

Mr.X

 

[enrage]

Thanks Mr X and everyone else for your replys.