Could you expand more on this? What do you consider low-carb? Why are the plateaus an issue with low-carb?
For the record, I always generally considered low-carb & no carb to be the same thing....<30-50g carbs a day
Anything over 50, and that's more what I would consider "lower carb"....purely semantics though
no just saying the diets that involve 150 grams of carbs will make you hit a plateau eventually because they would be higher in calories, so a cheat meal and a decrease in calories would be better then just a decrease in calories, the decrease coming from the carbs.
The plateau is say at 2000 calories and you are dropping 300 calories, well we know that the body requires exactly 2000 calories to break even because the plateau, by having a cheat meal you can temporarily raise what your body requires to 2200 for a couple days.
Ideal time for a cheat meal is when you drop calories. Now I go no carbs right off the bat so non of this is necessary.