Recently I have just finished reading Rapid Fat Loss by Lyle McDonald www.bodyrecomposition.com which is a scientific approach to crash dieting and claims you can lose 4-7 pounds of fat and 10-20 pounds of weight in 2 weeks.
Now I’m always dubious with crash diets which claim amazing results as in my experience nothing is easy regarding fat loss unless you are genetically blessed.
The diet is basically a form of PSMF (Protein sparring Modified Fast) which encourages you to increase your protein and lower your carbohydrate to force your body to burn fat for fuel but Lyle’s approach is a little different as you only need to consume around 600-1000 calories a day. Now for the scientific part, after about 4-5 days on little to no carbohydrates the body will try to slow down fat loss as a survival instinct, so to trick the body on the 6th day you have a 5 hour refeed which lets you eat rice, pasta bagels etc to refill glycogen stores in the liver but during this refeed you have to basically have no fat consumption.
After reading his book twice back to back to make sure I had everything down I decided to give it a go. I started on the 4th July and I weighed in at 13st 9lbs, during the week my weight fluctuated which was a little confusing. Now the book recommends that you cut back on training (weights and cardio) which I did, so I only lift about twice a week and do absolutely no cardio.
So what happened after 7 days?
I weighed myself last night and the scales said 13st 2lb. Now this looks impressive but I have to be realistic and take into account weight loss from water retention but it’s going the right way and I’m happy so far.
Now regards to what I’ve ate the past week, basically all I’ve had is:
Breakfast – egg white omelettes
Lunch – Chicken salad, cottage cheese
Dinner - Tuna with fat free mayo, cottage cheese
Not the most exciting meal plan but it does the job!
I’ll report in again next week with some more good news hopefully!
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