Help with carb loading

[phat_matt85]

I want to carb load to see what happens, im not quite sure how to do it right.

Stats:
24 yrs old
197lbs
11-12% body fat
5'10"

Here's my diet.

4:30 am Meal 1: 40-50 grams of carbs from oat meal and sugar free syrup 5 grams of crabs from that, 4-5 eggs usually only whites, fat free yogurt with 17g protein and 7 g of sugar, 20 grams of whey protein ever other day.
Carbs 50-60 g, Protein 40-60 g, fat 15 g.

8:00 am Meal 2: eather 2 slices of wheat bread, with 6-7 oz of lean turkey or ham , or just chicken breast and hand full of almonds ( this depends if its a litfing day or not)
C 30-40 g, P 40 g, F 20 g

11-11:30 Meal 3: 30-50 grams of carbs from some kind of beans and green veggies or brown rice, with 6-8 oz of lean chicken or turkey or fish on somedays ( latley i have been eating oat meal instead of beans
C 30-50 g , P 50 g, F 10 g

2:30 Meal 4: 50 grams of elliet protein and hand full of almonds or 2 slices of whet bread and peanut butter with sugar free syrup.
C 30 g, P 50 g, F 20 g

5:30 Meal 5 3-4 oz lean turkey, london broil, or chicken with red beans, brown rice
C 30-40 g, P 35 g, F 10 g

6:30-7:00 gym, i drink gatore here sometimes, when i feel flat.

8:00-8:30 Post work out 40-50 grams of elliet protein, with 35-70 grams of glycomaize, now i started eating Bagel, I LIKE IT!
C 60 g, P 50 g, F 3 g I think?

930: londol broil cooked with some oil all the wayy here, 4-5 oz and almonds sometimes if im still hungry
P 30-40 g, F 10-30 g

[phat_matt85]

Total
Crabs 200-300 grams, protein 295-315 grams, fat 60-100 grams
Lower cal day 2800 calories
Higher cal day 3360 calories

[phat_matt85]

I dont think i was clear on my question. Im wondering how do you guys carb load. Do you lower your carb intake day by day and run a day or 2 with no carbs? and then crab load for a day? and im not clear what carbs to eat on the carb load day and how much compare to my diet

[mg1228]

only time u need to carb load is if u are eating at a decent deficit throughout the week

the carbs u eat should b no different then any other day just more of them

say u were eating 150 gr carbs a day and ur total cals were 500 under maintenance--one day a week u should eat enough carbs to get ur cals to 300-500 over maintenance cals

[phat_matt85]

ok i see what your saying. Im having a prob where im dropping my weight slowy and look soft. So i figured i will try carb loading too see if i can get my definition back.

I tried it last year but i dropped my carbs for 2 days and almost no water for a day and the day before beach i carb loaded and it kind of worked i looked preety ripped up. But i think im supposed to lower my carbs for a week and then run a day or 2 with no carbs.

[gbrice75]

I think your thread begs the question - what type of diet are you running? What are you doing when you are not carb loading?