The Prime explained before cycling..

[bigracso]

bump for Marcus...

Question:

When you state dip 40% below maintenance, are you suggesting 40% below what your normal carb intake would be or 40% below your maintenance caloric intake?

ex. 1 - Say I eat 250g Prot/500carbs/50g fat per day.
Would I drop the carbs to 200g/day and compensate the calories with Prot/fats for my low carb days?
If so what would you suggest caloric intake be? How far over or under maintenance on low carb days, and high carb days?

or

ex. 2 - I would dip my maintenance calories 40%below normal (I believe you're speaking of the first example).
My maintenance is say 3200/day, on low carb I'd drop calories to approx 1800/day, high carb approx 3600/day?


Thanks.

Marcus300, but you don't reply at this or I didn't understand the reply.

So do the calories total must to be same in all 4 days ( 1 day high cho, 3 days low cho)?

that is, in high cho (1 day) the calories are equal in low cho (3 days), the only different is the macro nutriment ... so in low cho you rise the "fat" and prot!

or is the prime the low-calorie in low cho days (because remove the 40% of cho to your diet)?

thanks

[bigracso]

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[marcus300]

Marcus300, but you don't reply at this or I didn't understand the reply.

So do the calories total must to be same in all 4 days ( 1 day high cho, 3 days low cho)?

that is, in high cho (1 day) the calories are equal in low cho (3 days), the only different is the macro nutriment ... so in low cho you rise the "fat" and prot!

or is the prime the low-calorie in low cho days (because remove the 40% of cho to your diet)?

thanks

You will have to adjust daily to your bodies requirements, when I've been doing a long prime i will increase my pro & fats to suit the decrease in carbs, this for me makes the prime longer and can be taken over a longer period. When I am wanting to drop some extra bf I will leave the calories the same but if I become to flat and feel like muscle tissue is being wasted I will adjust the pro and fats accordingly to how i feel and look that day.