***Dieting 101: Carb Cycling***

[gbrice75]

Awesome write up, but Im still not going to try... far too stubborn =)

lol... someday you might budge!

Great write up Gbrice. I've been carb cycling for over a month and half now. My protein intake wasn't 1.5/1LBM because I don't drink any shakes. All my protien is whole foods so its so tough for me to add up 1.5. I do 1. Maybe I will try 1.5 once cycle starts. I think i'll def give this a shot. Its funny because the stats for the male you listed is pretty much me so I can just use the chart exact. So thanks man

Thanks brother. Like you, I always found hitting my protein macro with whole foods tough too... and at times, I'd be 50/50 powder/whole food. Then I found the holy grail: liquid egg whites!!!

I drink about a carton a day (not all at once) which provides roughly 100g quality (some consider gold standard) protein. Because of this, I now use very little protein powder these days.

[athletic.guy]

lol... someday you might budge!



Thanks brother. Like you, I always found hitting my protein macro with whole foods tough too... and at times, I'd be 50/50 powder/whole food. Then I found the holy grail: liquid egg whites!!!

I drink about a carton a day (not all at once) which provides roughly 100g quality (some consider gold standard) protein. Because of this, I now use very little protein powder these days.

DUDE.... you drink raw egg whites ???

[gbrice75]

DUDE.... you drink raw egg whites ???

Liquid, not raw. Cartoned egg whites are pasteurized, therefore not raw. The pasteurization process kills off harmful bacteria and as far as I can tell, the Avidin that binds up some of the protein in actual raw eggs and makes their content less bio available.

[run_n_fool]

Liquid, not raw. Cartoned egg whites are pasteurized, therefore not raw. The pasteurization process kills off harmful bacteria and as far as I can tell, the Avidin that binds up some of the protein in actual raw eggs and makes their content less bio available.

I've heard raw eggs were something like 50% bio available. You think that cartoned egg whites are fully bio avail? That'd be great news to me, but just wanted to confirm that before I start chugging them down. They are super cheap at Costco ...

[Back In Black]

I've heard raw eggs were something like 50% bio available. You think that cartoned egg whites are fully bio avail? That'd be great news to me, but just wanted to confirm that before I start chugging them down. They are super cheap at Costco ...

Yes, pasteurised eggs are as close to 100% as you will get.

[gbrice75]

Hey! I have found this to be very interesting. I currently am doing amatuer bikini competitions and have my first figure show coming up here in the spring! What about lean bulking? my last prep I bulked a bit higher than i wanted (im 5'4 and show at 112lbs) I bulked up to 133lbs and it was not a great number to have to go down from and i retained a TON of water and had to deplete way too long this time to get all the water off.
i dropped a solid 13-15 in water weight within the show prep remaining two weeks and it was mighty unnerving coming up to those last few days and still looking bloated! Do you have any advise on a lean bulk where i can maintain more of a leanness? my measurements are pretty close but i need to focus on legs. BUUUUUT i want to maintain some sort of lean midsection this time and really want to solve the extreme water retention issue!

Let me know if you have any words!

Hey there, I assume you are/were working with a coach? If so, is it the same coach this time around? I'm just curious as to what he/she thought about this.

To be honest, I wouldn't be overly concerned with water retention so long as you *can* dry out when it counts. I agree thought that it shouldn't take forever to accomplish. I'd be interested to hear your regimen to drop the water weight?

Do you have a tendency to retain water beyond what you might consider the 'average'? Women are obviously very different than men with particular regard to hormonal impact on water retention, so you girls definitely have it worse.

I'd like to help but would need to know what you were doing prior (i.e. your 'bulk') and then what changes were made during prep.

I've heard raw eggs were something like 50% bio available. You think that cartoned egg whites are fully bio avail? That'd be great news to me, but just wanted to confirm that before I start chugging them down. They are super cheap at Costco ...

I can't say it any better than what you've already quoted. What you say about raw eggs is correct, and as stated, cartoned egg whites are not raw, they've been heated to a point where the avidin is destroyed thereby increasing bioavailability by nearly double.