re: PuttaDaForkDown

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examples?

I mean would you eat like 2 hamburgers and a big order of fries

or a big steak with some veggies and a baked potato

or like veal and a big bowl of spaghet

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Examples- Whatever you feel like eating. I would eat a whole rack of ribs and french fries or a 12 in shrimp poboy or a seafood platter. Anything will work. It helped crave my cravings and helped keep my metabolism going in my opinion. Like the other poster, I would gain anywhere from 3-6 pounds just from this day but within 2 days it would be all the way off and I would usually lose a few more pounds the rest of the week. This only worked when I was dieting strict though. Say my maintenance caloric intake was 2,500 cal, I would have to be dieting(6 days a week) around 1,250-1,750 cal for this to really work. And I was working out and exercising at the time.

Most of the gained weight will be from stored muscle glycogen(stored energy in muscles) anyway. When you deprive yourself of carbs there isn't much stored glycogen in your muscles. Eat a cheat day and you will gain tons of water due to the stored energy. After a few days of depriving your body of carbs, your weight will drop. This is why most people lose a ton of weight their first week of dieting. They aren't really losing fat, just water weight.