Carbohydrates and Fat Loss
The trend when attempting to lose body fat is to minimise intake of carbohydrates. While reduced intakes are advisable for fat loss, elimination is not necessary, merely smaller portions of low GI carbohydrates.
Pre-workout and post-workout carbohydrates must be consumed in adequate quantities to fuel training and recovery, or progress will be hindered. Again, low GI carbohydrate, in the post post workout meal (PPWO) are favourable to fast acting ones.
There are various diets that focus on the timing and type of carbohydrate. Timed ketogenic diets (TKD) will eliminate virtually all carbohydrate except for those consumed around training. This diet induces periods of ketosis, at which point fat stores are mobilised and used for energy, in absence of carbohydrate stores and can therefore contribute to fat loss.
Cycled ketogenic diets (CKD) are similar to TKDs but carbohydrate intake is cycled, always being high around workouts but also including days of higher carbohydrate intake over all, followed by subsequent low carbohydrate days and depletion training (high rep ranges) before the next higher carbohydrate day.
Ultimately, any fat loss diet is arduous and challenging and the choice of diet will depend upon the individual, their goals and their compliance.
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