Do fitness models carb cycle?

Fitness models do watch what they eat, balancing calorie intake with what they burn. You have to, in order to look like that.

I’ve heard that carb cycling is the next thing in weight loss and muscle building.

Some body builders alternate fat burning with bulking, alternating a low calorie diet with lots of working out to lose fat before bulking on high protein to gain weight.

What do you think?

It isn’t good to try to starve yourself while building muscle, even if that’s taking in 2000 calories while burning 4000. The only caveat might be if you’re trying to lose 50 pounds, at which point, it is a weight loss and body building regimen in one.

Carbohydrate cycling is supposed to improve fat burn.

Carbohydrates in today’s diet tend to be empty calories, like French fries with nothing but starch and oil.

And carbohydrates just break down to sugar.

However, carbohydrates in and of themselves are not bad.

But avoiding carbohydrates unless I’m trying to gain weight is good.

You shouldn’t be cycling your diet. Pick a plan you can stick with so that you eat healthy all the time and fuel your body while keeping that form.

I see a lot of people living off protein bars. And those get expensive.

There is no one plan fitness models use, though high protein and lower calorie diets are dominant. However, carbohydrate cycling is bad for your blood sugar.

It isn’t like I’m living off junk food. It is a finely tuned regimen.

So is putting sugar in someone’s gas tank every Friday morning before they go to work. Just because it is a plan doesn’t mean it is a good one, and it can wreck someone’s system long term.

Are you really doing that?

It doesn’t matter. Carb cycling with binging on carbs one day and cutting them out on others is not healthy.