Depends on your goals and where you currently are, the books (CBL and Carb Nite) explain how to use insulin to your advantage, I am not going to be able to explain in a forum post what took two books and hundreds of scientific studies to put together.
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As prob 30-40% of people train in the morning and maybe 50% at night (rough guess - prob not many people train in the middle of the day due to work)
Does that mean they are doomed to get results due to consuming carbs at these times?
or is it ok to consume carbs at these times if it is post workout? Does that cancel everything "bad" out?
Honest question...
Again it's all explained in the book. To keep it simple if you want to follow CBL with optimal results you would train before dinner and after lunch. Any other training schedule will make it difficult to follow the protocol with optimal results.
You are not doomed, but obviously you will not be using your bodies natural hormone cycle to gain every last bit of advantage you can.
Most people gain muscle/strength despite of what they are doing not because of it.
The book does reference a shitload of studies, however one seemingly appropriate criticism I've read is that the studies are referenced and used beyond what they were intended for. For example, insulin spikes in the morning therefore delay your nutrient intake - the premise is solid, but does delaying breakfast really cause you to burn significantly more fat? Does spiking insulin post workout really cause huge changes in muscle repair? Subtle changes, perhaps - but it's not quantified anywhere.
I doubt it makes huge changes, I've only been on it a few weeks. I'll be coming off it tomorrow, being generous and saying I build 20% more muscle, 20% less fat on it - it's not worth it to me to feel so dead during the day. I need SOME carbs.
Again it's all explained in the book. To keep it simple if you want to follow CBL with optimal results you would train before dinner and after lunch. Any other training schedule will make it difficult to follow the protocol with optimal results.
You are not doomed, but obviously you will not be using your bodies natural hormone cycle to gain every last bit of advantage you can.
Most people gain muscle/strength despite of what they are doing not because of it.
What time is it bad to stop eating carbs? Would say training between 1-6 be ok? Or is 6 to late to consume carbs?
Mick where to start.
Its a fad diet. Just jumping on the bandwagon like every other fad diet before it.
So with you following every latest fad diet out there why are you just like any other middle aged fat bloke and not the most jacked motherfucker going around.
So now your saying it doesn't work after being on it for only 3 weeks? I am confused.
I have made my diet pretty sensible otherwise - decent macros / calories - I've just been having all my carbs post workout.
I have made small strength gains in the past 2 weeks so I'm going well but who's to say I can't chalk that up to sensible macros rather than meal timing. If it has given me small advantages like I said it's not worth the zero carb 'feeling' to me - I guess I'm just someone who doesn't do well on 0 carbs.
As for morning training he said it's fine in the book, but he says something about having carbs the night before to prepare for the morning training session. I'm sure there are cliff's online if you google it. I skimmed over that part as I dont intend on doing morning training, ever.
My hormone level test recently was 17nmol for test so I've made fat kind of high, around 100 grams. Protein 200-300, carbs 100-200. Unfortunately I get fat on more than 2700 cals pretty fast so sometimes I have to keep my carbs closer to 100.
I feel fine unless I have to concentrate on something important pre-training/carbs, which I feel tired doing. I spoke to someone yesterday (trainer) who said the same thing without me prompting 'if you have a job where you have technical stuff to do, or a uni course you gotta keep up with, all these fasting diets or low carb diets can make concentrating difficult'. This is my main and only issue with low carb, I dont feel depressed or anything - in fact I feel kind of relaxed...
Yes, the CBL diet, which I'm still on. The book recommends I have 160grams after training, daily, over a few meals (a calc based on how much weight you lose during the 10 day 0 carb phase before you start chugging carbs at night and 'backloading').
Kiefer isn't even a dietitian. Physicists have a good track record at butchering nutrition research, Gary Taubes as a good example.
Kiefers ideas are hardly openly accepted by actual experts in the field. So trying to use him as the go to for any nutrition explanation is flawed from the start.
What did you think of Taubes book?
Got half way through it, it's sitting on the shelf.
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