The best time to check your physique/weigh yourself is when you get up straight away in the morning.

Zoh wrote Pulled this from a forum ---

When you eat high-carb and create a calorie deficit, you'll lose weight alright, but you'll lose up to 50% of that weight in muscle. Therefore, attempting this on a high-carb diet will result in stagnation, i.e. neither moving forwards or backwards, and a very frustrated you.

When you're a certified fat-burner it works a treat. Skeptical? Want some solid evidence? Good! Ok, check out the info from 5 studies in the image below.

Pay particular attention to the last group - 'Volek et al'. As most of us aren't going from 'overweight' to lean, and we aren't restricting calories to 1000 or less per day, this is where we'll find relevant answers.

This group lost 2.2 kg or 4.8 lbs in total weight. The great news is that they actually lost 7.26 lbs / 3.3 kg of fat and gained 2.42 lbs / 1.1 kg of muscle in 42 days. Is it any wonder carb cycling is so darn effective?

As a sidenote, check out the top study. A low-carb group consuming just 1000 calories per day was observed alongside a group that ate absolutely nothing for 10 days. Sure the fasting group lost more total weight, but the low-carbers lost almost twice as much fat!

VERY LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIETS DESCREASE FAT MASS, SPARE LEAN BODY MASS
Low car study chart
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I feel as if your totally neglecting body recomposition and only looking at it in black and white.
Thats just my opinion though
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Zoh wrote I feel as if your totally neglecting body recomposition and only looking at it in black and white.

You're totally right. I assume OP has been training for a decent time and isn't still getting noob gains or that he hasn't stopped training for a long perioid of time. You can lose fat and build muscle, providing you've never trained before and have just started training or if you're coming back to training after a long break.

As the article the linked specifically mentions:

If you have at least 6 to 8 months of weightlifting under your belt and arent coming off a long break, you probably cant recomp.

Practically, and realistically it's not a viable option. Someone eating a caloric defecit probably wouldn't even gain 40% of the muscle that someone who's bulking and gaining fat would. However, if OP had said that he's just got back into training and has gained some weight, I would totally agree that this isn't a bad suggestion whatsoever.

To be honest, I really don't trust that study either. Firstly, it's advertising it's own products in the article, I;E the Leigon products and It doesn't mention the supplements that the athletes are taking and for all we know they could be blasting on a gram of testosterone a week. I do believe in certain circumstances, as I said above that you can build muscle and lose fat though, but the results are minimal and it's not certainly not maintainable as a training method.

Respect for linking an article and mentioning a specific diet though.

cut for the summaa

You shouldn't even need to worry about it.

I'm really indecisive about whether i should get up and actually go the gym (the answers usually no)