Just wondering why everyone suggests keeping fat minimal and carbs very high on a refeed? If the idea is to prevent leptin from dropping then wouldn't providing a calorie surplus be enough? Why not moderate fat (i.e 100-120) and high-carbs?
To eat over my maintenance calories with minimal fat would mean eating over 500g carbs. I can't see this happening in a day, lol.
Why can't I keep my fat at 130g? Why does this matter? Calories are calories.
There is a
lot to be said about this, Lyle has done a myriad of interviews and addresses this in his books.
Okay, so you go a few blocks down the street to visit your grandmother every day, because she's elderly, and she depends on you for support....besides, as her Grandson, its your job to make sure she's okay, and to keep her from becoming depressed. Most days you do odds jobs, pick things up, fix things, and take her trash to the curb..as well as that of the elderly neighbors next door to her. ..... On occasion, your siblings, friends, cousins, et al go with you to help out....more hands focused on the same task=more efficient work, right? Although there is one problem. For whatever the reason, there seem to be bags of trash accumulating in the neighborhood...moreso than in the past. The city is slowly working on the problem, so in the meantime you simply step around them, or over them, and go about your business. But one day, you get word that she has passed out due to exhaustion/dehydration, and isn't doing well at all...she needs your help. So you make some quick calls to everyone who has helped in the past in the hopes that someone could get there immediately. You start to run as fast as you can, but there are bags of trash everywhere...in the road, on the sidewalk..piled 5 bags high everywhere the eye can see...As if this isn't enough of an obstacle, the City workers, who have been collecting the bags on the street and carelessly piling them up in front of Grandma's house to the point that they are nearly blocking her front door, are trying to hand you bags as you run by, but you tell them you have to get in there as quickly as possible! She needs your help! ......and then you remember....you forgot to take out your own trash!
Now, the question is, would it make any sense to go back toget your trash? Why would you want to add to something you've been trying to get rid of? Why add to the obstacle?
Yeah, maybe not the BEST analogy.
I guess I could have said, "because muscles need glycogen (via carbs exclusively) to upregulate hormone levels...and, too high of a fat intake in conjunction with a high carb intake will result in ...yep, more FAT. Lyle, as I recall, recommends a maximum fat intake of 50g during a refeed. (as well as a carb intake of 1.5~3.0grams per lb.of LBM)
THANK GOD FOR MY BRO JUSTIN! I could kiss him 
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