Cheat meal question.

[Big Country 056]

My trainer has me doing very low carbs, high protein and supplementing with EFAs Sun thru Wed; Then Thurs thru Sat I raise my carbs to @ 450 (I weigh 218@6%BF) and finish Sat night with a cheat meal. My question is this: How many of the calories from such a meal can your body actually process and store as fat on a diet such as this? Some of my bros at the gym have said not to worry, to enjoy the meal because my carbs drop back down on Sun, and such a calorie spike helps keep your metabloism raised. I'm using Fina 100mg EOD and doing cardio religously (40 min, 2x per day). My bodyfat is coming down nicely, but I'm 6 weeks out from competition and getting paranoid.
Any help would be great!

 

[Big Country 056]

Oh yeah, I had also read about guys using laxitives during contest diets. What's that all about? Dangers? Advantages?

 

[Big Country 056]

Big self-bump here.

 

[diamonddiceclay]

YOU SHOULD ONLY DO 24 HOUR CARB UP OR YOU'LL PUT ON FAT

 

[Hoffmeister]

Google seems to be down at the moment, so I don't have the references.

But I think the prevailing "wisdom" is 24-36 hours of refeed before fat building kicks in.

I know Elzi Volk and a few others have been doing more frequent refeeds; like every 3-4 days. I think she has cited some references that the leaner you are, the longer and more frequent refeeds should be.

I know one of the others is "Par Deus", who I've seen occasionally posting on this board. Maybe he can elaborate further.

 

[Big Country 056]

Thanks Hoffmeister.

If you find any more info, could you please post the link so I can look it up?
Thanks.

 

[Hoffmeister]

Brian Haycock has a really good intro here:

http://www.musclemonthly.com/articles/010515-haycock-howz-it-work.htm

Elzi Volk also has some more details (scroll to the bottom):

http://www.musclemonthly.com/articles/001215-volk-body-talk.htm

Finally, you can work your way through these posts on MFW:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=leptin&as_ugroup=misc.fitness.weights&as_uauthors=Elzi Volk

 

[Mr.X]

I've never used such ratios, but if they have been working for you then you shouldn't change them.

Here is what I recommend:
Day 1-4: weight x .4=g carbs a day
Day 5: weight x 1=g carbs a day
Day 6: weight x 2=g carbs a day
Day 7: wieghtx .2=g carbs a day

Protein amount goes down as carb ratio goes up.

Mr.X

 

[WarriorPL]

damn Mr. X, you know way to much, lol is all this off the top of your head??

 

[Mr.X]

Actually, my friend, this is based on experience and medical knowledge. I never recommend anything unless I have tried it...The way I came up with these ratios were based on the BF% of the person and how far away he is from the contest, and what past dieting he has done, plus, dieting/cardio/"supplements".

Mr.X