But, I'm close to show time and I can't have any temptation.
This carb cycling is ALREADY WORKING! In less than 1 week of the diet change, I can SEE and FEEL my abs changing. In the mirror, I see more definition than I have so far, and it's really exciting. After not seeing changes for quite some time, I started to feel nervous. But now I am seeing some changes. Again, I'm a little more aggressive on the carb cycling than my online coach told me to, but I don't want to do things halfway. I think it's a good choice.
I have had pretty good energy despite the lower carbs.
No lie..... this is me today. ------------>
Gym
I took what my personal trainer's advice that he gave me yesterday: all my sets should be all-out. All-out. I guess I never realized that sometimes I don't go all out. The gym was muggy, I was a sweaty mess, but it was an awesome leg workout. I went to failure with all of my exercises, and the superset from the quad extension and hamstring curl machine finished off my legs. I tried the new decline side-crunch (awkward, I had to have my PT show me, after I tried 10 of my own variations the other day). It is awesome.
Then I did a kickboxing class, an old standby. I didn't go all out in that class because I wanted to use it as my steady state cardio, and I've had 3 days in a row of HIIT. Then after that was done, I finished of my last ab exercise for the day: Roman Chair Straight-Leg Lifts. OOoh MAN you can actually FEEL those sculpting your abs. I'm getting a lot better at them. I used to be able to do only 6 or 8 leg lifts each set, but now I can get 10, and I can bend my legs a bit and change the leverage enough to hammer out another 4 or so. Then I bend my knees and bring them to my chest. I tend to get lazy with abs usually, so I kept thinking today "Bikini on Stage, Bikini on Stage, Gotta Rip Up the Abs." It TOTALLY WORKED... I did a lot better ab workout keeping that in mind.
Tan
Hit up the tanning place for 5 minutes in my stand-up. I'm putting sunblock on my tanned parts in the hopes to balance out my farmer's tan on my shoulders and legs.
Laundry
Then I did my laundry
Hey, I'm wanting to do carb cycling really bad, but I have no idea how to do it correctly with a vegan diet. I either still go over on my carbs for 'low' days by a lot, and I never can get enough stinking protein. I eat whole, healthy foods. I just really want to figure out how much of what I'll need, and how to do it Vegan so I can follow it religiously :( Any help you have would be wonderful! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHi Michelle, are you training for a competition? Or are you just trying to lean out?
DeleteI always had low carbs to begin with because I had to seriously slim down in 4 months (or less), so it was hard, but it worked.
One thing, is that no matter what day, I never had carbs after meal 3, really ever, unless I had a few chick peas on my salad, but generally I had no carbs.
The hard part is forcing yourself to be weaned off carbs. It is NOT EASY... it's painful, sometimes I had anxiety and frustration.
Most of my protein comes from rice protein shake... that's it. Really, it sucks that there aren't low-carb protein options (other than tofu, but that doesn't agree with me and it doesn't have all that much protein anyway).
It's a huge sacrifice to have all those protein shakes. I recommend rice protein over pea protein. Try www.truenutrition.com's version.
There is very little fun or enjoyable about low carbs... :( what are your goals?