Carb cycling once a year won't do anything. Our bodies adapt extremely fast, which is what carb cycling exploits.
When bulking or doing a weight loss regimen, carb cycling is usually done on a 3-4 day cycle. By cycling between high, medium, and low fat/carbs/protein in various controlled proportions, you are constantly tricking your body's mechanics to burn fat while maintaining its health.
Simultaneously, you're allowing your body the supplies it needs to build muscle and repair itself, and your brain the supplies it needs to think clearly and do a good job maintaining its chemical balances.
Also simultaneously, you are preventing your body from entering a stage where it thinks it's starving, which actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it because it increases your stress and the body clamps down on functions to be more efficient with its energy stores, a very bad combination when losing or maintaining weight.
Incidentally this function is also why eating a strict diet is often bad for weight loss; cycling or just..not caring too much about your caloric intake (within reason) prevents your body from becoming too efficient with calorie burn.
If you ate the same 2K calories every day, you would stop losing weight at a point even if you were well above the weight that 2K would maintain because the body is really good at becoming efficient.
It's one of many reasons, including many outlined in my posts, that the idea that weight loss is just calorie in vs calorie out is just not true and exceedingly outdated. A lot of things factor into our weight and how we lose or keep it and it's useful to learn as many of those factors and their effects as possible, especially if you want to come to a board and essentially lecture people on diets.
And again, I am generally a keto person. I have picked up carbs again for bulking and weight loss right now, but I enjoy the effects I feel (usually) on a low or no carb diet. But I can never discount how important carbs actually are in moderation.
Carb cycling once a year won't do anything. Our bodies adapt extremely fast, which is what carb cycling exploits.
When bulking or doing a weight loss regimen, carb cycling is usually done on a 3-4 day cycle. By cycling between high, medium, and low fat/carbs/protein in various controlled proportions, you are constantly tricking your body's mechanics to burn fat while maintaining its health.
Simultaneously, you're allowing your body the supplies it needs to build muscle and repair itself, and your brain the supplies it needs to think clearly and do a good job maintaining its chemical balances.
Also simultaneously, you are preventing your body from entering a stage where it thinks it's starving, which actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it because it increases your stress and the body clamps down on functions to be more efficient with its energy stores, a very bad combination when losing or maintaining weight.
Incidentally this function is also why eating a strict diet is often bad for weight loss; cycling or just..not caring too much about your caloric intake (within reason) prevents your body from becoming too efficient with calorie burn.
If you ate the same 2K calories every day, you would stop losing weight at a point even if you were well above the weight that 2K would maintain because the body is really good at becoming efficient.
It's one of many reasons, including many outlined in my posts, that the idea that weight loss is just calorie in vs calorie out is just not true and exceedingly outdated. A lot of things factor into our weight and how we lose or keep it and it's useful to learn as many of those factors and their effects as possible, especially if you want to come to a board and essentially lecture people on diets.
And again, I am generally a keto person. I have picked up carbs again for bulking and weight loss right now, but I enjoy the effects I feel (usually) on a low or no carb diet. But I can never discount how important carbs actually are in moderation.