jay123
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I remember the post about the Brad Marshall diet: Amazing "Croissant Diet" Experiment Results (Stearic Acid/Saturated Fat)
from @Julian. It appears that the author of the Croissant Diet had done an N=1 experiment that he calls "The Feasting Mimicking Diet" Do not get this confused with the Fasting Mimicking Diet. I guess it is his play on words. He has a summary post of the diet and also his results from it. I will attach the thread. But here is the basic summary of the diet which focuses on low PUFA and high saturated fat. And it comes in cycles with feasting on carbs(starchy ones). So here is the summary and followed by his links.
The Feasting Mimicking Diet as written by Brad Marshall:
I’m a believer in the Calories-in, Calories-Out school of thought only in the sense that I believe in the physical concept of conservation of energy. You have to create a caloric imbalance to lose weight. The obvious thing to do here, eating less, comes with a fatal flaw: you’re body responds to caloric restriction by lowering your Resting Metabolic Rate. A five week 722 calorie per day diet in women was shown to1 reduce Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) by 23% after five weeks. But even fasting for 24 hours can reduce RMR by around 10%2.
Conversely, forced overfeeding can increase metabolic rate by at least 14%2. Yet there are surprisingly few rapid weight loss diets that ask you to begin by stuffing yourself with a highly palatable, very high energy density meal comprised of equal parts of fat and starch with protein until you literally can’t take another bite. For some reason, all diets want to focus on reducing calories in. This one focuses on maximizing calories out.
Let’s do the math – your metabolic rate in the feasted state could be (114% or 1.14 divided by 77% {100%-23%} or 0.77) 48% higher in the feasted versus the fasted state. Who wants to live in the fasted state?!
So the kernel of my idea is this: we trick our metabolism into thinking that we are feasting but then we in fact fast. It’s a bait and switch. We feast which revs our metabolic engine and then we just let it go on burning.
This is just a little bit about what he says. Here is the link to read about the idea for the diet: The Feasting Mimicking Diet - Fire In A Bottle
And here is the link of the results of his diet: Feasting Mimicking Diet Trial Results Part 1 - Fire In A Bottle
from @Julian. It appears that the author of the Croissant Diet had done an N=1 experiment that he calls "The Feasting Mimicking Diet" Do not get this confused with the Fasting Mimicking Diet. I guess it is his play on words. He has a summary post of the diet and also his results from it. I will attach the thread. But here is the basic summary of the diet which focuses on low PUFA and high saturated fat. And it comes in cycles with feasting on carbs(starchy ones). So here is the summary and followed by his links.
The Feasting Mimicking Diet as written by Brad Marshall:
- A 48 hour cycle with a single feast meal followed by a day of foods that don’t stimulate insulin
- The feast meal is high in starch and highly saturated long chain fats
- The goal is to increase metabolic rate while fasting by supplying your cells with plentiful fuel.
I’m a believer in the Calories-in, Calories-Out school of thought only in the sense that I believe in the physical concept of conservation of energy. You have to create a caloric imbalance to lose weight. The obvious thing to do here, eating less, comes with a fatal flaw: you’re body responds to caloric restriction by lowering your Resting Metabolic Rate. A five week 722 calorie per day diet in women was shown to1 reduce Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) by 23% after five weeks. But even fasting for 24 hours can reduce RMR by around 10%2.
Conversely, forced overfeeding can increase metabolic rate by at least 14%2. Yet there are surprisingly few rapid weight loss diets that ask you to begin by stuffing yourself with a highly palatable, very high energy density meal comprised of equal parts of fat and starch with protein until you literally can’t take another bite. For some reason, all diets want to focus on reducing calories in. This one focuses on maximizing calories out.
Let’s do the math – your metabolic rate in the feasted state could be (114% or 1.14 divided by 77% {100%-23%} or 0.77) 48% higher in the feasted versus the fasted state. Who wants to live in the fasted state?!
So the kernel of my idea is this: we trick our metabolism into thinking that we are feasting but then we in fact fast. It’s a bait and switch. We feast which revs our metabolic engine and then we just let it go on burning.
This is just a little bit about what he says. Here is the link to read about the idea for the diet: The Feasting Mimicking Diet - Fire In A Bottle
And here is the link of the results of his diet: Feasting Mimicking Diet Trial Results Part 1 - Fire In A Bottle
