Anyone else tried a calorie cycling diet for weight loss?

[Anonymous]

It's the practice of going back and forth between periods of eating higher calories and then having periods of eating fewer calories. I've been on a diet for a few weeks during the week but in the weekend I go home and then I always eat normal so I eat like 4-5 days fewer calories and then in the weekend I eat higher calories. And I've had some great results! I didn't even know this cycling diet existed but it definitely works : ) Has anyone else tried it? Did you have good results? And how is your zig-zag structure?

[sexyasianboi26]

I call it the caveman diet.

Im a fitness trainer and a dietician expert, so I also monitor my client's meals. I make them give me a daily report of what they eat lol

The calorie cycling is the easy version for intermittent fasting. Its for people who don't have the will power to suppress their hunger.

For my clients, I give them 12 hour window split (2 meals a day), a 600 calorie meal for breakfast (6am) and another 600 calorie meal for dinner (6pm).

For me, its a 16-24 hour fast. one big meal for breakfast and that's it.

My results? It shredded my abs and it made them more prominent.

[Asker]

But won't your meatabolism slow down? and if you'd start eating normal wouldn't you gain all lost weight back?

[sexyasianboi26]

Nope. Think about this for a second, when I say "caveman", what do you picture? Do you picture our ancestors as fat and obese? or do you picture them as lean machines built for survival?. The only way you will get fat by doing this, is if you eat unhealthy foods like McDonald's or sugary sweets with high fructose corn syrup.

[Claretica]

Mine is a constant zag.

Overall for the week, you're still on a caloric deficit.

You'll lose weight faster if you're on a constant caloric deficit.

Calorie cycling isn't a 'diet', it's just not applying a deficit all the time.

You'll get better results of you're always on a deficit!