Hi my name is Lisa. I am new to the forum. I was wondering if anyone was doing this diet? Or if anyone knew about it?
Many people look at the word "cheat" and think that can't be good but you don't have a cheat day where you go crazy and eat a bunch of stuff. This is a carb cycle diet but you are restricted to particular foods and one day you aren't but you can eat healthy that day. It is sometimes called a refeed.
This diet has a "priming stage" in the beginning. For the first week you eat just very low carbs, the second week you eat lower GI/GL foods like fruit and legumes, the 3rd week you eat higher GI/GL foods like brown rice, whole grain bread, bananas, high fiber cereals but the foods need to be low fat that week.
Then after the 3 weeks you have a day when you can eat what you want. You won't lose weight if you eat as many calories as you want. They explain in the book to eat 3 meals and 2 snacks and how much of each. The next day you start the "core stage" which is ongoing until you reach your desired weight.
That is when you eat LC for Sun, Mon and lower GI/GL for Tues, Wed, and higher GI/GL with low fat on Thurs, Friday, and Saturday is the "cheat" day.
This diet works with the hormone Leptin. You are not eating the same calories, fat, carbs each day so your metabolism works better since your body doesn't know what's coming like on a diet where you eat just LC or just Low Calories. It kind of tricks your body into working off the fat. When you are losing weight, it's fat that your are losing the most of, not the water weight you lose at the beginning of some diets.
Anyway, I thought I would put it out there in case anyone is interested. I hit a stall on Atkins and wanted to try something new. I googled this book and bought it very inexpensively online so I got it right away on my computer. It is a very interesting read and he also talks about exercise but he really gives a better reason why this works with science behind it. It's something to check out if you aren't completely excited about your WOE right now. I loved Atkins when it worked for me. I am still doing LC in this diet but I am learning that there are more foods out there that you can eat if you eat them in a carb cycle way.
Thanks,
Lisa