This is going to be long but well worth it so make sure you read the entire thing and see what kind of FREE bonus I'm offering at the end.
In the beginning of January, I made a New Year's Resolution.
Looking at the state of the world, everything seemed so negative. The economies are tanking, people are being laid off in droves, technology is moving forward but, it seems we're kind of at a stand still when it comes to obtaining something earth shattering, and the waistlines of Americans just increased by at least 2 inches each person from the holiday feeding.
The resolution that I made to myself was to keep an open mind about any approach health and fitness related. Don't discard something simply because it doesn't follow what you've read in the past.
Really, this is nothing new to me. Back a number of years ago, I was following the same mantra that everyone else was: Dietary fat was bad, don't eat it. Dietary fat will turn into body fat. If you want to lose weight, take the dietary fat out of your diet.
But then I stepped outside that box and read a book called The Testosterone Advantage Plan. There's some great insight in that book and changed my tune on dietary fat. Dietary fat turns out to actually be essential and is part of the solution of reducing body fat, not the problem.
So I followed the eating plan and did the workouts. Nine weeks later, I was seven pounds lighter.
So I had come to a great discovery that when it comes to losing and gaining weight, it's not the dietary fat's fault, it's the extra calories that you consume that is the main issue.
I learned more and more. Learned about eating 6-7 meals a day instead of the standard three, learned about starvation mode that it was best to eat every 3-4 hours or your body was going to think it was starving and start eating off your hard earned muscle.
I learned about the importance of getting a good protein drink mixed with fast acting carbs after a workout to help fuel the muscle recovery process.
I learned that you should be getting roughly one gram of protein per pound of your body weight.
I learned that you need to do exercises that involve the movement of your biggest muscles such as rows, deadlifts, squats, lunges, bench presses, and pull ups.
I even re-evaluated concepts that I blogged about recently such as starvation mode and ketosis that I had previously shunned.
Back a number of weeks ago, I came across a book mentioned on another blog that I had never heard about, called Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.
Basically, the book outlines an eating plan that is very very simple: Eat normal, but for one or two 24 hour periods a week, do no eat anything at all.
Let me say that again, no eating. Nothing. Nada. No can do. No consuming of calories (including calories from liquids) for 24 hours.
At first, I thought "No way, this guy is crazy. Starving yourself is the absolute worse thing you can do."
But, I remembered that I was going to keep an open mind and to read things that are outside of my "box" to at least see something from a different perspective.
So I bought the book, and read it in a couple of hours (it's not that long of a read).
Then I decided that I needed to use myself as a guinea pig with this approach and see what happens. So I started on my journey of fasting for 24 hours, twice a week and I was going to do it for four weeks to see what kind of results I would get.
But, before I reveal what my results were, there's one important part: You have to do resistance training 2-3 times a week. Doing this resistance training is what is going to preserve that muscle of yours. The resistance training could be anything from bodyweight exercises to full blown barbell squats. All that matters is that you do some kind of resistance training. Not long steady state cardio. Not an aerobics class. Resistance training (although intervals are fine to add in, and I found the I Hate Mike Interval Workout did a pretty good job).
A Typical Fast Day
Here's an example of a 24 hour period that I fasted:
Monday night around 8:30 pm - Had some lowfat cottage cheese and a TBSP of natural peanut butter
Before bed - A cup of Melissa tea
Tuesday Morning around 5:15 am - woke up, got ready for the day
7:00 am - started drink water, had a hot cup of green tea
8:00 am - felt hungry, had another hot cup of green tea
Drank in total about 4 liters of water during the day and whenever I felt hungry, made a hot cup of green tea
4:00 pm - Completed the I Hate Mike Interval workout
Drank more water
6:30 pm - taught my group class
8:30 pm - time to eat. Had a half a can of tuna rolled into a multi-grain pita and ate an orange
Before bed - 1/2 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, a TBSP of natural peanut butter, a hot cup of Melissa tea
Results
Here's a breakdown by week of how much weight I lost:
After week 1: lost 2.5 pounds
After week 2: lost another 1.5 pounds
After week 3: lost another 2.5 pounds
After week 4: lost another 2.0 pounds
Overall weight loss: 8.5 pounds. That equates to a loss of over 5% of my bodyweight in 27 days.
Was it easy? At times yes, but at other times no but after a couple of fasts, you almost forget that you're not eating.
Even though I'm a bit regimented on what I eat on days I wasn't fasting, the overall concept of eating what you "normally" eat when you're not fasting and then simply adding some resistance training makes it a lot less stressful in that you don't have to count calories or measure things out or eat this or eat that. All you do is stop eating two times a week for 24 hours and then the rest of the time you just "act normal."
I'm sure this question has entered your mind: Won't I just gain the weight back when I stop cycling fasts?
After I was done with this experiment for four weeks, the following week I ate normal (and worked out four times during the week) and actually saw my weight drop another half a pound.
How YOU Can Lose Weight Like This
So here's the bottom line on what you can do to get results like I did (or even better): Buy Eat Stop Eat.
As an added bonus for buying the product, I will give you a FREE copy of my diary that I kept for the 27 days following Eat Stop Eat.
The diary will give you EXACTLY what I ate and will tell you EXACTLY what workouts I did. If you follow the guidelines set out in Eat Stop Eat as well as in my diary YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. Whether you've got that 10 pounds of fat left that is just hanging on for dear life or have already lost a significant amount of weight and are stuck at a plateau or you're looking to start losing weight from scratch, this plan WILL work if followed properly.
Click on this link to buy Eat Stop Eat and after you purchase it (it's an e-book so you get the book instantly), forward a copy of the e-mail receipt to me at: eatstopeat@leanbodyfitness.com and I will send you a copy of my diary.
Workout Options
In my diary I list out exactly what my workouts were. You don't have to do exactly what I did. I was using equipment such as a lat pulldown machine, barbells, dumbbells, and a stability ball.
But there are some other options to programs you can do along with Eat Stop Eat that would be a great combination.
1. If you have no equipment available, I would suggest Craig Ballantyne's Turbulence Training Bodyweight Cardio v2.0 workout that you can find here.
2. If you have dumbbells available to you, I would suggest any of Craig Ballanyne's Turbulence Training Workouts that you can find here.
The workouts that you can buy from Turbulence Training are extremely affordable at less than $10 and are some of the most effective workouts I've ever done so you won't be disappointed.
3. If you live local to me, you can sign up for the NEW Lean Body Fat Loss Training Program that I'm offering that would be a perfect fit with Eat Stop Eat.
In Perspective
When I started following Eat Stop Eat, I realized that I was saving roughly $10-15 a week in groceries. So in the course of a month, I saved between $40-60.
What this means is that at minimum, the amount I saved in groceries paid for Eat Stop Eat and at best I actually saved $20 in groceries for the month after paying the cost of the book.
So if you bought both Eat Stop Eat and either Craig Ballantyne's Bodyweight workout or one of the other Turbulence Training programs, they would AT MINIMUM pay for themselves over the course of 6 weeks.
Final Thoughts
There was something very free about not eating all day. I had initially thought that I was going to feel weak and tired without eating for 24 hours but, it turns out that I never felt that way and after the first couple of fasts I actually felt MORE energized.
What it also can teach you is how to adapt to the feeling of hunger. Meaning, once you've fasted a few times, you noticed on other days that you're not fasting and have a busy day and scheduled eating times take a back seat, that after 8 hours of not eating, you're fine. You're not craving or "starving" like you have felt in the past.
This was an eye opening experience for me and quite frankly is without a doubt the best program that I've put myself on that has resulted in weight loss so consistently and SO QUICKLY.
Honestly, I am currently at the weight I was (although a lot leaner) when I was in high school (for those that know me know how long ago that was and for those that don't know me, I'll give you a hint: This guy was big on the music scene at the time...unfortunately..).
I'm going to continue experimenting with this approach some more to get an idea of how it affects other health issues like blood cholesterol and glucose levels so keep checking back to this blog to find out more.
And, I will continue to keep a diary of everything I eat (or don't eat) when following Eat Stop Eat, and all of my workouts and if there are any updates to the FREE diary that you get from me for buying Eat Stop Eat, you will get those updates at ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE.
Give it a try and let me know how your experiences are with it.
Don't wait. Click here to order your copy right now.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
"Natural" Diet Pill Not So Natural
Well, another flop on the supplement front. This article talks about how a diet pill that was promoted as having all "natural" ingredients wasn't completely accurate.
The violators are a supplement called Starcaps that promotes the use of papaya as an ingredient the help with weight loss actually has a dangerous pharmaceutical drug called bumetanide which can have some bad side effects.
What's even worse is that this supplement isn't the only culprit. The FDA found dozens of other supplements with pharmaceutical drug in them that are not declared on their ingredient list.
From the article:
But this is where my blood pressure rises substantially with how we deal with supplements in this country from this part of the article:
What this means is that as long as a company puts the word "supplement" on the bottle of a product, they can make any claim they want about what the product can do and don't have to provide a shred of evidence to back it up. The only time the FDA gets involved is when there is a health claim or substantial complaints about the product (like ephedra was investigated and subsequently banned in 2004 by the FDA).
There was a laughable (in my opinion) update to the law last year as the article states:
Oh big whoop. So the manufacturers have prove that the supplements they are providing actually have the ingredients in them that they claim and that there are no other ingredients, but they still don't have to show that any of those ingredients actually do what they say the product will do.
Sure, the law protects consumers into MAYBE not getting sick by taking these supplements, but it doesn't protect them from throwing money at products that, in my opinion are nothing more than placebos.
But, it's a hard climb to the top in trying to prove a $24 billion industry is nothing but a scam.
Sorry, that turned into more of a rant than I had originally intended too. Stay away from weight loss supplements folks. Just eat right, exercise and you'll get results in the purest of forms.
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The violators are a supplement called Starcaps that promotes the use of papaya as an ingredient the help with weight loss actually has a dangerous pharmaceutical drug called bumetanide which can have some bad side effects.
What's even worse is that this supplement isn't the only culprit. The FDA found dozens of other supplements with pharmaceutical drug in them that are not declared on their ingredient list.
From the article:
“A large percentage of these products either contain dangerous undeclared ingredients or they might be outright fraudulent on the ingredients and have no effect at all,” said Michael Levy, the director of the F.D.A.’s division of New Drugs and Labeling Compliance. “We don’t think consumers should be using these products.”
But this is where my blood pressure rises substantially with how we deal with supplements in this country from this part of the article:
Enacted in 1994, the main law on dietary supplements gives the F.D.A. jurisdiction only after the products go on the market. Rather than reviewing the supplements and approving them for sale, as the agency does with drugs, the F.D.A. is limited to spot-checking manufacturers and distributors, and testing products already on store shelves. Even the F.D.A. acknowledges there may be hundreds of other drug-contaminated weight-loss supplements for sale that the agency does not have the resources to identify.
What this means is that as long as a company puts the word "supplement" on the bottle of a product, they can make any claim they want about what the product can do and don't have to provide a shred of evidence to back it up. The only time the FDA gets involved is when there is a health claim or substantial complaints about the product (like ephedra was investigated and subsequently banned in 2004 by the FDA).
There was a laughable (in my opinion) update to the law last year as the article states:
Last year, the F.D.A. adopted new “good manufacturing practices” rules that require makers of dietary supplements to test the purity of each ingredient and the final product. Another new statute, which went into effect in December 2007, requires manufacturers to notify the F.D.A. of any reports of serious health problems caused by the pills. “The law adequately protects consumer health because it does have the monitoring system in place,” said Mr. Mister, of the industry trade group.
Oh big whoop. So the manufacturers have prove that the supplements they are providing actually have the ingredients in them that they claim and that there are no other ingredients, but they still don't have to show that any of those ingredients actually do what they say the product will do.
Sure, the law protects consumers into MAYBE not getting sick by taking these supplements, but it doesn't protect them from throwing money at products that, in my opinion are nothing more than placebos.
But, it's a hard climb to the top in trying to prove a $24 billion industry is nothing but a scam.
Sorry, that turned into more of a rant than I had originally intended too. Stay away from weight loss supplements folks. Just eat right, exercise and you'll get results in the purest of forms.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The Original 300 Workout
Back awhile ago, I posted this workout by Craig Ballantyne on a great 300 workout.
I was at a seminar a few weeks ago where I found out the Original 300 Workout was actually only 3 exericses: Pullup, Pushup, and Squat. You did 100 Pullups, 100 Pushups, and 100 Squats and tried to get that done in 30 minutes.
Now i don't know if this workout was created by someone recently who is calling it by that name or whether this is actually a workout that was done 2000 years ago in ancient Rome.
I tried it out last week and it was pretty good. I made one slight adjustment in that I did inverted rows instead of pullups (I might be able to squeak out 50 pullups, but I'll be honest, there's no way I could have pulled out 100 of them).
How I did it though was I did everything in sets of 5 in circuit fashion. I did 5 inverted rows, 5 bodyweight squats, and then 5 pushups and then repeated that over and over again until I had done a total of 20 sets.
My time wasn't too bad. 14:30 the first day I did it, 13:45 the second time I did it.
I'll tell you what though, for a workout that lasts less than 15 minutes, I was drenched in sweat when I was done and boy did my upper body feel it the next day.
Another good example of how designing workouts effectively using the biggest muscles you've got can cut down on the amount of time that you have to workout but give you the same (if not better) results than if you worked out longer.
Give it a try and e-mail me at mike@leanbodyfitness.com to let me know how you did.
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I was at a seminar a few weeks ago where I found out the Original 300 Workout was actually only 3 exericses: Pullup, Pushup, and Squat. You did 100 Pullups, 100 Pushups, and 100 Squats and tried to get that done in 30 minutes.
Now i don't know if this workout was created by someone recently who is calling it by that name or whether this is actually a workout that was done 2000 years ago in ancient Rome.
I tried it out last week and it was pretty good. I made one slight adjustment in that I did inverted rows instead of pullups (I might be able to squeak out 50 pullups, but I'll be honest, there's no way I could have pulled out 100 of them).
How I did it though was I did everything in sets of 5 in circuit fashion. I did 5 inverted rows, 5 bodyweight squats, and then 5 pushups and then repeated that over and over again until I had done a total of 20 sets.
My time wasn't too bad. 14:30 the first day I did it, 13:45 the second time I did it.
I'll tell you what though, for a workout that lasts less than 15 minutes, I was drenched in sweat when I was done and boy did my upper body feel it the next day.
Another good example of how designing workouts effectively using the biggest muscles you've got can cut down on the amount of time that you have to workout but give you the same (if not better) results than if you worked out longer.
Give it a try and e-mail me at mike@leanbodyfitness.com to let me know how you did.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Ballparks Open Today
Around the county today, baseball parks open up for the first time this year to take on another 162 game season. Baseball's my favorite sport so I've been waiting for this day to come since last October.
I had mentioned a long time ago in this post about how ballparks were feeding people like they've never eaten before, and that the stuff they were feeding them wasn't the best.
I think I found something that topped that. This article talks about how a burger is going to be served at the West Michigan White Caps games this year that contains 4,800 calories.
You read that right. 4,800 calories. Take a look at the picture.

What's in it?
What do you get if you eat the whole thing by yourself? A FREAKIN' T-SHIRT! Great to see ballparks haven't quite hit bottom yet on their ingenious food inventions.
Thanks to Chris Standish for sending this along.
And let's see those Spartans bring home a basketball championship tonight.
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I had mentioned a long time ago in this post about how ballparks were feeding people like they've never eaten before, and that the stuff they were feeding them wasn't the best.
I think I found something that topped that. This article talks about how a burger is going to be served at the West Michigan White Caps games this year that contains 4,800 calories.
You read that right. 4,800 calories. Take a look at the picture.
What's in it?
The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa and corn chips, all on an 8-inch sesame-seed bun.
What do you get if you eat the whole thing by yourself? A FREAKIN' T-SHIRT! Great to see ballparks haven't quite hit bottom yet on their ingenious food inventions.
Thanks to Chris Standish for sending this along.
And let's see those Spartans bring home a basketball championship tonight.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Recipe Friday - Pizza
No, the recipe for today is not pick up the phone and order a pizza.
This recipe looked really really good and had to share it. Mushrooms, red onions, garlic, cheese and basil leaves. Give it a try and let me know how it turns out.
If you ever come across recipes that you think would be great to blog on, please don't hesitate to send them my way. Just make sure they are HEALTHY recipes....
Have a good weekend.
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This recipe looked really really good and had to share it. Mushrooms, red onions, garlic, cheese and basil leaves. Give it a try and let me know how it turns out.
If you ever come across recipes that you think would be great to blog on, please don't hesitate to send them my way. Just make sure they are HEALTHY recipes....
Have a good weekend.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Walking 100 Steps For Moderate Exercise
We always here that people need to get 30 minutes of "moderate" exercise most days of the week to keep yourself healthy.
The problem has been that no one has really determined what the definition of "moderate" is.
This article talks about a new study that says "moderate" should mean roughly 1,000 steps in a 10 minute continuous period, or 100 steps a minute.
I've never counted my steps before when I walk or carry one of those pedometer things that count the steps for you so the other day when I was walking my dog I decided to count how many steps I was taking at the normal pace that I walk. In 60 seconds I walked 127 steps.
From the article:
I don't know about that. A brisk walk for who? Maybe I'm just a fast walker but, the pace of 127 steps a minute to me was more of a leisurely walk. If I took it up a notch to where I was trying to catch a bus, but cut myself short of running, I'm thinking I'd be somewhere between 150-175 steps a minute, minimum.
The actual study details aren't out yet so I can't verify what the training status of the subject were, what the methods were, how long the study lasted, etc.
But I still don't think we're any closer to determining what "moderate" is because it's going to vary so much from person to person based on their current health status.
At the same time, considering that we are talking about the "average" American, I guess it's very plausible that 100 steps in 60 seconds would be brisk enough to get the heart noticeably beating faster as well as a noticeable increase in a person's breathing rate for quite a large section of the population.
BUT, remember, after doing this for some time, your body will adjust and adapt, and in order to continue to get the same effects, you're going to have to increase the pace that you're going.
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The problem has been that no one has really determined what the definition of "moderate" is.
This article talks about a new study that says "moderate" should mean roughly 1,000 steps in a 10 minute continuous period, or 100 steps a minute.
I've never counted my steps before when I walk or carry one of those pedometer things that count the steps for you so the other day when I was walking my dog I decided to count how many steps I was taking at the normal pace that I walk. In 60 seconds I walked 127 steps.
From the article:
"It's a bit like a brisk walk," Marshall said. "If you can imagine you're late for a bus, you're in a hurry. It's not a leisurely stroll, it's a brisk walk."
I don't know about that. A brisk walk for who? Maybe I'm just a fast walker but, the pace of 127 steps a minute to me was more of a leisurely walk. If I took it up a notch to where I was trying to catch a bus, but cut myself short of running, I'm thinking I'd be somewhere between 150-175 steps a minute, minimum.
The actual study details aren't out yet so I can't verify what the training status of the subject were, what the methods were, how long the study lasted, etc.
But I still don't think we're any closer to determining what "moderate" is because it's going to vary so much from person to person based on their current health status.
At the same time, considering that we are talking about the "average" American, I guess it's very plausible that 100 steps in 60 seconds would be brisk enough to get the heart noticeably beating faster as well as a noticeable increase in a person's breathing rate for quite a large section of the population.
BUT, remember, after doing this for some time, your body will adjust and adapt, and in order to continue to get the same effects, you're going to have to increase the pace that you're going.
www.leanbodyfitness.com
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Ketosis
Ketosis is something that is part of the low-carb craz but, there wasn't really a lot of discussion on it when it came to fat loss even though it might very well be the biggest contributor to fat loss when on a low carb diet. So I'll try to break it down as to what it actually is.
This is a pretty good description of what Ketosis is but I'll see if I can summarize it.
During most of human history, carbs weren't part of the "normal" diet. We pretty much lived on what we hunted, fished, trapped, etc. There's not a lot of carbs in rabbit, deer, mammoth, or anything else that Fred Flintstone would have eaten.

The goal back in the day of Freddy's time was to still be able to function without a lot of food on menu each night. But the body needs glucose in order to keep the brain and other tissues functioning, keep alert, to be able to react quickly, etc. when out looking for food.
But if you're body is running on a bare minimum of glucose with no carbs to eat, it has to breakdown protein (muscle) in order to supply it with the glucose it needs.
But that would lead to a problem if the body kept breaking down all that muscle: You wouldn't have the strength, speed, etc to hunt down your next meal. (I wrote about this last week here when talking about starvation mode).
The breakdown of the protein into glucose happens in the liver. The liver needs energy in order to break the protein down into that glucose (a process known as gluconeogenesis).
What is the energy source used to power the liver for gluconeogenesis? Body fat.
So the liver breaks down body fat so that there is energy to break down protein to make glucose. But there is a byproduct of that breakdown of fat: Ketones
Basically, Ketones are a standby energy source for the brain when sugar is not around but it also works as an energy source for all the other tissue and muscle in the body.
This is best part: when the ketones kick in as the energy source, then the tissues, brain, heart, etc doesn't need as much of that glucose that was being broken down from protein in the muscle, hence, there is less muscle breakdown at that point going forward.
If you're on a low-carb diet, you even get the added bonus of eating protein, which that is converted first to glucose to be used for the energy and not the protein from your muscle. So you get the best of both worlds: fat being broken down to fuel gluconeogenesis but the protein that is being broken down is from the protein you're eating, not the protein from your muscles, thus you preserve your muscle mass while at the same time breaking down fat to convert the eaten protein into glucose.
What level of low carb will turn this whole process on? If you keep your carbs at no more than 60 grams a day, that should get you into ketosis and keep you there.
You can check the status of whether you're in ketosis as well by using Ketostix. Bascially, you pee on the stick, wait 15 seconds, and then compare the stick to the graph on the side of the box and that'll tell you what level of ketones are in your urine (ketones are expelled through either urine or breath).
Give it a try sometime and see what you think. It's going to be on my experiment list in the near future so I'll make sure to share the results with you.
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This is a pretty good description of what Ketosis is but I'll see if I can summarize it.
During most of human history, carbs weren't part of the "normal" diet. We pretty much lived on what we hunted, fished, trapped, etc. There's not a lot of carbs in rabbit, deer, mammoth, or anything else that Fred Flintstone would have eaten.
The goal back in the day of Freddy's time was to still be able to function without a lot of food on menu each night. But the body needs glucose in order to keep the brain and other tissues functioning, keep alert, to be able to react quickly, etc. when out looking for food.
But if you're body is running on a bare minimum of glucose with no carbs to eat, it has to breakdown protein (muscle) in order to supply it with the glucose it needs.
But that would lead to a problem if the body kept breaking down all that muscle: You wouldn't have the strength, speed, etc to hunt down your next meal. (I wrote about this last week here when talking about starvation mode).
The breakdown of the protein into glucose happens in the liver. The liver needs energy in order to break the protein down into that glucose (a process known as gluconeogenesis).
What is the energy source used to power the liver for gluconeogenesis? Body fat.
So the liver breaks down body fat so that there is energy to break down protein to make glucose. But there is a byproduct of that breakdown of fat: Ketones
Basically, Ketones are a standby energy source for the brain when sugar is not around but it also works as an energy source for all the other tissue and muscle in the body.
This is best part: when the ketones kick in as the energy source, then the tissues, brain, heart, etc doesn't need as much of that glucose that was being broken down from protein in the muscle, hence, there is less muscle breakdown at that point going forward.
If you're on a low-carb diet, you even get the added bonus of eating protein, which that is converted first to glucose to be used for the energy and not the protein from your muscle. So you get the best of both worlds: fat being broken down to fuel gluconeogenesis but the protein that is being broken down is from the protein you're eating, not the protein from your muscles, thus you preserve your muscle mass while at the same time breaking down fat to convert the eaten protein into glucose.
What level of low carb will turn this whole process on? If you keep your carbs at no more than 60 grams a day, that should get you into ketosis and keep you there.
You can check the status of whether you're in ketosis as well by using Ketostix. Bascially, you pee on the stick, wait 15 seconds, and then compare the stick to the graph on the side of the box and that'll tell you what level of ketones are in your urine (ketones are expelled through either urine or breath).
Give it a try sometime and see what you think. It's going to be on my experiment list in the near future so I'll make sure to share the results with you.
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