Why Macro Cycling is Better Than Carb Cycling

Macro Cycling vs. Carb Cycling - Why Macro Cycling Wins Full Article: Consistent energy. No off-limit foods. Simplicity. That is what makes Macro Cycling work. Many of you may know Carb Cycling or the general gist of it. You cycle your carbs and have high-carb days and low-carb days during the week. There are many ways to do this, but you often also have to time your workouts with the different days so that you have certain workouts on certain high-carb days and others on low-carb days. While Carb Cycling can be great, it does require you to plan more so you can make different meals during the week and cycle between days. I found this to be too complicated for my personal meal prep as I couldn’t prep big dishes for the week and had to make sure to buy for both types of days. I also found that it always happened on high carb days I wanted foods with more fat, which I couldn’t have and on low-carb days, I always wanted carbs… Always seems you want what you can’t have! Literally the second you say, “I can’t have a cookie.” That is instantly what you want and become obsessed with EVEN if you hadn’t wanted a cookie before you told yourself that! So for me while I think the idea of basic Carb Cycling is great, the way you usually have to implement it with programs just didn’t really fit with two of my three most important dieting beliefs… While it gets results, it wasn’t as simple as I would have liked to be able to stick to long term and it also left me feeling deprived too often. Don’t get me wrong…I realize it isn’t possible to get ideal results and just binge eat all of the that doesn’t mean I always have to feel like I’m missing out. That is why I came up with Macro Cycling. Full Article: