Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I have

Esoza Osage Day who is a registered dietician and we are talking about

carb cycling. Carb cycling is a tool to use if your goal is body

recomposition which means gaining muscle and losing fat.

So with carb cycling you increase your calories in your carbohydrates on certain days to help fuel your workouts and then you decrease your calories and your carbs on other days.

So you're kind of cycling between higher carbed days and... and your carbs on other days.

So you're kind of cycling between higher-carved days

and lower-carbed days.

I will say, and we talk about this in the episode,

but this is more of an advanced nutrition technique and it's not something that I recommend trying or she

recommends trying and I would agree if you are brand new to tracking your food because it does take a lot more precision with

tracking so it is a good technique if you have been exercising consistently

and you've been tracking your food consistently and you want to just get a little bit more

precise with it.

So if you're newer to body recomposition, what I would do is check out episode number 77 we talk about just more of a basic

technique which is being in an overall calories like calorie deficit kind of

throughout the week and not trying to cycle so that will give you more of a basic approach

if you're newer to body recomposition

because remember that body recomposition

is a combination of training to build muscle

while also keeping a nutritious diet that is slightly lower than

your maintenance calories and high in protein.

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