I've been reading through the forums for a while now about carb cycling. I'm going to go to the library and see if I can get any books on it, if you know of a good book to suggest I'd appreciate it.

My little brain has been ticking, I was thinking back to a time where my friend,who attends a weightloss group that I belong too, had eaten a huge carb meal after the meeting (chinese food, no holds barred, rice and everything, she follows atkins). Well, needless to say she put some major weight from that one meal. She was all nervous about weighin in at our next meeting and to everyones surprise she dropped 5 lbs in that week!

I'm thinking okay, that must have been a fluke. Well well, I had gone away for a weekend a few months later and I threw all caution to the wind, one of our friends is a bartender and she was making frozen mudslides, pina coladas all weekend long. I drank to my hearts content, lol. Well, after the weekend I weighed in on monday and I was up 8 pounds! I was sick about it. I had a clean week and the following monday I weighed in and I had dropped 11 pounds! A net loss of 3 lbs.

I know I'm rambling on here but I wanted to share my experience. I'd like to try the carb cycling but my problem is this: I don't want to be my heaviest weight on a Monday because that's when I weigh in. From all the different things I've read I've seen people who carb up for 36 hours on the weekend so they'll have the stores for the week ahead of lifting. Anyone have any ideas of how I can tweak this so I'm not my heaviest on monday? I work-out Mon-Fri.

Also, when you carb up, do you just eat whatever? or do you eat clean carbs? (damn those mudslides were good).

Any help appreciated, it takes so much time to try and plod through other peoples journals and search the internet for advice.

Thanks
Krista

one more thing, if it's not being too much of a pain I'd like see what a typical days menu of carbing up would be for you.