Can you lose weight faster with carb cycling?
It seems like we just can’t learn to leave carbs alone. There is a constant flood of diets plastering the media, many of which seem intent on advising us just how to eliminate, reduce or choose the carbohydrates in our diets. Carb cycling, as the name suggests is no exception, being a diet that bases its weight loss principles on the amount of carbohydrates you eat and when you eat them. Unlike some other carb controlling diets however, carb cycling does advocate a number of general healthy eating principles as well as moderating carbohydrate intake. What is Carb Cycling? Carb Cycling diets, also known as carb rotation diets, were made popular by books such as Jay Robb’s The Fat Burning Diet and The Carb Rotation Diet by Jayson Hunter. However, carb cycling is nothing new, having been used in the body building world as a method for burning fat and building muscle for some time. Essentially carb cycling involves a cycle (as the name suggests), of low or no ...