Hi Wow -- I can't believe I ate what I did without gaining either!!! Usually I just LOOK at the wrong food and gain. I sure do wish it was genetic!!! I know someone like that who has a genetic "problem"... she actually eats big macs, whoppers, etc.... to GAIN weight!!!
Maybe I didn't gain because I exercise so much and drink so much water and don't eat those things on a regular basis, who knows. If I do eat like that, it will only be ocasionally on the weekend and then I am a good girl throughout the week. Maybe it is working like cheat days or something along those lines where you change the eating patterns for a day or two and go back to the correct WOE.

Suziq,

A friend of mind told me about a diet..CDL i think..where you do not eat any carbs m-f until 5pm Friday..then you eat what you like until Sunday at 5. It seems to work for a lot of people...kind of tricking your body. Way to GO!

Hi Wow, A friend of mine is on a diet similar to the one you mentioned, but I think hers is you eat no carbs for so many days and then a day of carbs .... same principle ... tricking the body!!! I hope with my new way of eating, I can continue tricking my body instead of my body tricking me!!!!! I hope things are going well for you.

Just thought I'd add a few notes....

The diet you all are referring to is CKD....there's a forum for it on here too if you all want to check it out. It's actually a little more involved than just eating carbs on the weekend. There is a calcualtion for how much you need to refeed your muscles and it's very low fat during that time of the week....so you can't just eat anything you want. During the week is extremely low carb (20g or less...like induction phases).

It also incorporates a very intense weight lifting program and is infact utilized to replenish the glycogen in your muscles...not fix a stall. You will actually gain a few lbs over the weekend as you will retain some water, theorhetically to be lost over the week...and then some. The important thing is to get the right amount of carbs as too many (and in combination with too high of fat) will spill over and cause a fat gain.

Also, if you all do check into it...keep in mind most of the forum is male based as well as the calculators. I'm having to tweek my program to fit it to a woman. We tend not to be able to process such high carb amounts as well as the guys do.

Hope this helps!

HI sizuq,

Hope things are going well for you. I am trying a WW/SBD thing this week. I feel really liberated in my eating but I guess the scale will tell.

elmuyloco,

Thanks for the infor. I have really begun lifting heavy but I dont think I will try that plan yet..it does really seem like you have to have a lot of discipline

Wow:

Yeah you kinda do, but don't feel nervous about it either. It's just a diet...and it takes some tweeking too like most do. But if you are able to persist at your weight training without problems, I wouldn't do anything differently.

I personally changed from atkins to ckd because the extreme lack of carbs of induction level was killing my workout. I would start to fail half way through. You just simply need carbs to repair your muscles. Most people don't need more than what they get on atkins, etc. as they aren't lifting a whole lot. My body doesn't stay in ketosis well (takes very few carbs to throw me out) so I can't do some of the plans that allow more carbs. The carb up kicks me out for a short time and then allows me to get back into ketosis within a day or two....then I can burn off the fat during the week. The carb up does some other cool things too, but I'll spare you the technical mumbo jumbo. It's just what seems to be working for me. And I still don't have it perfect, each weekend I tweek it a bit more to make it right, but my weight is still on the downward trend and I've added 4 lbs of muscle mass in just 3 weeks. So that's an overall loss of 10lbs this month.

Good luck to all of you!!