Are all carbohydrates bad for you? And how much carbohydrate should you eat every day? This is where carbcycling can help. Carbohydrates, along with fat and protein, make up the three macronutrients. When your body digests carbohydrates, they’re broken down into glucose – your brain and body’s preferred form of fuel. When glucose gets into the bloodstream, the pancreas is triggered to produce a hormone called insulin. This transports glucose from the bloodstream into the cell. Here, it is turned into energy, stored in the fat cells, or stored as glycogen. Carb cycling is useful for breaking through weight-loss plateaus. It relies on increasing and decreasing carbohydrate intake on different days of the week. There are high-carb days and low-carb days as well as days on which no carbs are eaten at all. When you try carb cycling, you can eat carbohydrates if they’re from a clean source. Cycling allows the body to use fat more effectively as a fuel instead of ...