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Lose 15 pounds of fat without giving up carbs.

Part 2 by J.C. Dean of JCDFitness.com.

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Lose 15 pounds of fat without giving up carbs.

Part 2 by J.C. Dean of JCDFitness.com

Have your cake and eat it too.

For the diet, we took an approach that is fairly well known in the bodybuilding community,

but not so much with lay exercise enthusiasts.

For many of my clients, but not all, I tend to cycle calories throughout the week and give a pretty

hefty carb refeed on Sundays, which is a full day off of diet and training.

I first learned about this approach through Amir Siddiqui, and then, after reading more of Scott

Abel's work, particularly his book, The Cycle Diet. So, while I cannot take credit for the creation

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