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I don't look at them as 'diets' per se. I think of them as lifestyles that fit my current goals. So, for instance, when I want to maintain weight, I eat modera

I don't look at them as 'diets' per se. I think of them as lifestyles that fit my current goals. So, for instance, when I want to maintain weight, I eat moderate carbs after I workout. If I want to gain weight, I'll eat more carbs, and higher GI carbs, after I workout. If I want to lose fat, I'll do the 6.5 day refeed approach (this was nutshelling in its heaviest form....there are many nuances, but you should get the idea). You don't have to gain the weight back. Just realize what made you successful and start adapting that to how you live after you hit your goal, whatever that is.

jacques_chester 14y ago
Like I say in my blog post: we are are our own controller. Observe inputs and results. These days I have lost enough fat that I can, by eyeballing, see what I had for dinner the night before. Lots of carbs --> retain water --> some veins disappear. Few carbs --> less water retained --> veins more visible. At the moment I try to schedule particularly carby dinners for hypertrophy days, on the theory that this will work better for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy purposes. But at this point in the discussion I am well and truly majoring in the minors. The headline is still that I am losing fat through caloric deficit and that for me, the easiest way to do so is intermittent fasting.