Balancing carbs with staying lean

[sl1m3]

I am 18 years old and I have been in a calorie deficit for over a month now. I go to the gym every other day and as I wanted to lose weight asap, I tried eating as little carbs as possible (around 60-90 grams before working out and around 30 grams on rest days). This made my face and body look much less bloated and I was losing fat pretty fast. However, I noticed that my gym progress has became much slower (or sometimes I even regressed). When I eat at least 100 grams of carbs a day, I feel better and I am able to progress in the gym, however my face and body look less lean (even though I try to keep a 3:1 potassium to sodium intake).

Do you have any suggestions or tips on how I could balance both staying debloated and making progress in the gym / eating a sufficient amount of carbs?

 

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[Zeekie]

I am 18 years old and I have been in a calorie deficit for over a month now. I go to the gym every other day and as I wanted to lose weight asap, I tried eating as little carbs as possible (around 60-90 grams before working out and around 30 grams on rest days). This made my face and body look much less bloated and I was losing fat pretty fast. However, I noticed that my gym progress has became much slower (or sometimes I even regressed). When I eat at least 100 grams of carbs a day, I feel better and I am able to progress in the gym, however my face and body look less lean (even though I try to keep a 3:1 potassium to sodium intake).

Do you have any suggestions or tips on how I could balance both staying debloated and making progress in the gym / eating a sufficient amount of carbs?

Sadly you can't have it all, either you're super lean or you get high performance, you can't have both.

Personally I would just carb cycle, meaning I up my carb intake on training days significantly, and do low-carb on rest days.

But the only long-term solution I see for you is eating carbs and training like normal until you get to your goal, once you reach your physical goal just hop on a low-carb diet and keep training, you won't lose your gains as long as your training and nutrition are okay. It's way easier to keep something than build it.

If you don't have any physical goal and are just training for the sake of making progress...? Well tough luck bro.