Low carb diets: can you have cheat days?

[nicksaiz65]

There are plenty of other things you can eat besides rice...part of nutrition is making sure what you eat tastes good

The only thing I didn’t like about low carb is restricting fruit. You can only have very low carb berries, even blueberries are pushing it.

If I were to increase my carbs for whatever reason, I might have a similar diet but more fruit.

I really like SmartPop popcorn as well, it’s pretty low calorie but you could argue if it’s “healthy” or not depending on who you ask lol.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

The only thing I didn’t like about low carb is restricting fruit. You can only have very low carb berries, even blueberries are pushing it.

If I were to increase my carbs for whatever reason, I might have a similar diet but more fruit.

I really like SmartPop popcorn as well, it’s pretty low calorie but you could argue if it’s “healthy” or not depending on who you ask lol.

It's just unnecessary except for a short time if you are doing contest prep.

There is no real reason you can't get down to whatever BF% you want to fairly easily and in the same duration as low carb, without the associated flattening of the muscles and lowering of strength since you are essentially lifting with flat tires for muscles.