Fat fast

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

"Carb Freebie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Has any one tried the fat fast?

JC Der Koenig said:

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

www.lowcarbing.com/llc/atkins/fatfast.htm

Carb Freebie said:

Has any one tried the fat fast?

The Fat Fast, as outlined by Dr. Atkins in Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution, is a tool that low carbers who are metabolically resistant can use to get themselves quickly into ketosis. It is also used by many low carbers (myself among them) to break a weight loss plateau or as a means of forcing themselves to get back on track when they have gone off-plan.

Simply put, the Fat Fast consists of a 3 or 5-day cycle in which you
consume just 1,000 calories a day. 90% of those calories should come
from fat. (The Fat Fast should not be extended beyond 5 days because it
is deficient in protein.)

Dr. Atkins states that eating 4 or 5 mini-meals is better for our bodies
than eating one large meal while doing the Fat Fast. During the Fat Fast
you may consume either 4 250-calorie mini-meals or 5 200-calorie
mini-meals. Consuming these small meals frequently throughout the day
actually works better than complete fasting.

Dr. Atkins mentions cream cheese and macadamia nuts as the "perfect" Fat
Fast foods. Ten ounces of cream cheese would be an entire day's food
allotment; divide the cream cheese into 5 2-ounce servings. You could
also opt for 5 ounces of macadamia nuts split into 5 1-ounce servings
and consumed throughout the day.

That's not a lot of food. I find that when I do the Fat Fast I think
about food constantly. I don't obsess about food because I get hungry
(surprisingly, I do not get hungry), but simply because I can't have any
- at least not any that I really want. The Fat Fast makes regular strict
low carbing look absolutely luxurious.

I'm going to be completely honest here: I hate, loathe, and detest doing
the Fat Fast. I get very grumpy because I get frustrated. My family says
that I don't, but that just makes me think that they don't notice the
difference because maybe, just maybe, I'm a pretty grumpy person all the
time. It's either that or the kids are ignoring me in the same way they
do when I tell them to clean their rooms or do their homework. Or
perhaps they simply value their lives and know when to keep their mouths
shut. The survival instinct is very strong in my brood.

(***Note: "But I was doing the Fat Fast!" is not a legitimate legal
defense for mayhem or murder. I know this is true. I've checked.)

OK, I know what you want to ask me: "If the Fat Fast is so incredibly
awful, why do you do it, you stupid woman?!?" (Well, you might not say
the "stupid woman" part because you are ever so polite, but I know
you're thinking it.)

Why? Because it works for me. If I am not in ketosis when I start the
Fat Fast, I am when it's over. If I am having cravings to beat the band
and hanging on by the skin of my teeth, when the Fat Fast is over the
cravings are G - O - N - E and I'm perfectly happy to go back to
munching on chicken legs and salads. If I've hit a plateau and stopped
losing weight, my weight loss is jump started.

I've done the Fat Fast a half a dozen times in the last three years, and
each time I have lost between 5 and 8 pounds during the three-day cycle.
After I go back to eating normal low carb, I gain 2 to 4 of those pounds
back, but have always ended up with a net loss for the 3-day period of
between 2 to 4 pounds. (Your experience may be different from mine. The
only way to find out for sure is to try it.)

Of course, a lot of people don't even consider doing the Fat Fast to get
into ketosis or to break a stall because they can't stand the idea of
subsisting on plain cream cheese and/or macadamia nuts for 3 days. I
don't know about you, but I would be more likely to be able to cut off
my big toe with a dull paring knife than I would be able to gag down 10
ounces of plain cream cheese. My throat closes up at the very thought.
And I don't particularly like macadamia nuts, either.

Well, I don't have to choke down plain cream cheese or eat macadamia
nuts, thank goodness. You don't, either. Dr. Atkins lists several
alternatives in his chapter on the Fat Fast, and although caviar and
avocados don't appeal to me, you may very well like them.

I have also developed a list of alternative food choices for the Fat
Fast, which I've listed below. Some of them don't quite come up to the
"90% of the calories from fat" parameter, but they come close enough and
have worked for me.

Fat Fast Ideas And Recipes

There is one further plus to the Fast Fast which I haven't mentioned.
There is very little food preparation involved. None of the ideas or
recipes listed below will take you more than 5 minutes to prepare.

1. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream in a large mug of coffee (I use
this to jump start my day and prevent abuse of those near and sometimes
dear to me. In the summer I make it the night before and put it in the
refrigerator, then pour it over ice. You could also pour it into
popsicle molds and freeze it for Coffee Fat Fasticles. Yum!)

2. 4 strips of bacon

3. Peanut Butter Cream Cheese
* 1 ounce cream cheese
* 1 tablespoon sugar free peanut butter
* 1 tablespoon heavy or whipping cream
* 10 drops Liquid Sweet & Low (or artificial sweetener of
your choice)
* 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Blend all ingredients in a small bowl.

Serves 1. Approximately 208 calories.

***Note: If you life this one, make up several servings at one
time and stick them into the refrigerator in custard cups for individual
servings. That way you only have one cleanup.

4. 2 ounces of cream cheese stuffed in one large celery stalk

5. 1/2 pork rinds with 2 ounces of sour cream

6. Pork Rinds With Sour Cream Dip (This is not my recipe - Judi
(Island Girl) forwarded it to me.)
* 1/2 ounce plain pork rinds (1/6 of 3-ounce bag)
* 1/4 cup sour cream
* 1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese
Blend parmesan into sour cream and use as dip for pork rinds

Without Parmesan: 164 calories, 8 grams fat (79%)

With Parmesan: 187 calories, 15 grams fat (77%)

7. 2 tablespoons of sugar free peanut butter on an approximately 7
1/2-inch stalk of celery.

8. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream, whipped, sweetened with
artificial sweetener, and flavored with vanilla or some other extract.

9. 2 ounces of sour cream on approximately 1/2 cup sliced cucumber.

10. Tuna or chicken salad with triple the usually amount of mayonnaise.

I cook the bejeebers out of a whole chicken in the crockpot until
the meat is literally falling off the bones, then shred the meat and
save it for chicken salad or for soups. I strain the broth carefully
(watch for small bones!) and freeze it.

I will usually reuse the broth to cook more than one chicken,
which results in a superb, flavorful extra-strength broth which is great
to sip on if you're sick.

11. 2 egg yolks mashed up with lots of mayonnaise, salt, and pepper
(like you would for deviled eggs), but eaten plain or with a few pork
rinds, cucumber slices, or a celery stick

12. Peanut Butter Pudding (This is Rani Merens' recipe.)
* 2 tablespoons of sour cream
* 1 teaspoon sugar free peanut butter
* Splenda (to taste)
Combine all the ingredients. This thickens up magnificently, and
can either be eaten "as is" or partially frozen, but don't let it get
rock hard unless you just want to suck on it.

***Note: If you life this one, make up several servings at one
time and stick them into the refrigerator in custard cups for individual
servings. That way you only have one cleanup.

13. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream in a can of diet soda (any flavor)

14. 1/2 package sugar free Jell-O in 1/2 cup whipped heavy or
whipping cream

15. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream, whipped, with 1 teaspoon
unsweetened cocoa powder and a few drops of liquid artificial sweetener
added (to taste).

***Note: If you life this one, make up several servings at one
time and stick them into the refrigerator in custard cups for individual
servings. That way you only have one cleanup.

16. Jell-O Whip (Someone named Chris sent this to me a couple of
years ago.)
* 1 small package sugar free Jell-O (any flavor)
* 1/2 cup boiling water
* 4 ice cubes
* 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature and cut into cubes
* 4 tablespoons heavy or whipping cream
Dissolve the Jell-O completely in the boiling water, then add the
ice cubes to cool it down and to thicken it.

When the ice cubes are melted, pour the gelatin mixture in the
blender and add the cutup cream cheese. Whirl it around until the
ingredients are completely blended. Pour the mixture into a mixing bowl.

Whip the four ounces of cream, then fold it into the cream cheese
mixture.

Divide the mixture into 5 equal portions, cover each with plastic
wrap, and put them in the refrigerator to chill.

This makes 5 servings, or all the you need for one day of the Fat
Fast. Of course, you wouldn't have to eat all 5 servings in one day. You
could alternate them with other food choices.

17. Cream Cheese Jell-O Chunks (Someone sent me this idea, too, but
I've misplaced their name).

10 ounces cream cheese, cut into 20 equal squares (Not softened!)
1 small packet sugar free Jell-O, any flavor

Pour the dry gelatin powder into a small bowl or onto a salad
plate. Set aside.

Roll the 20 cream cheese squares into balls. Roll each ball in
the dry gelatin mixture. Place the coated balls on a plate, cover them
with plastic wrap, and put them in the refrigerator until you're ready
to eat them

Each Fat Fast serving is 4 balls.

"Carb Freebie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Has any one tried the fat fast?

=====================
It didn't help me any. If you try it you better have a lot of both
Metamucil and some anti-diarreal on hand. Some people need one or the other
when duing these fat fasts.
--
Wysong
Age 60. Height 5'6"
Starting date: 1/8/05
171/ 167 / 140 lb
==========================================

You're certainly a quick one.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

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Quoted message said:

JC Der Koenig said:

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

www.lowcarbing.com/llc/atkins/fatfast.htm

Thanks for the awesome info--I may have to try this sometimes I have a hard
time getting into ketosis..

Glitter Girl
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Quoted message said:

Carb Freebie said:

Has any one tried the fat fast?

The Fat Fast, as outlined by Dr. Atkins in Dr. Atkins New Diet
Revolution, is a tool that low carbers who are metabolically resistant
can use to get themselves quickly into ketosis. It is also used by many
low carbers (myself among them) to break a weight loss plateau or as a
means of forcing themselves to get back on track when they have gone
off-plan.

Simply put, the Fat Fast consists of a 3 or 5-day cycle in which you
consume just 1,000 calories a day. 90% of those calories should come from
fat. (The Fat Fast should not be extended beyond 5 days because it is
deficient in protein.)

Dr. Atkins states that eating 4 or 5 mini-meals is better for our bodies
than eating one large meal while doing the Fat Fast. During the Fat Fast
you may consume either 4 250-calorie mini-meals or 5 200-calorie
mini-meals. Consuming these small meals frequently throughout the day
actually works better than complete fasting.

Dr. Atkins mentions cream cheese and macadamia nuts as the "perfect" Fat
Fast foods. Ten ounces of cream cheese would be an entire day's food
allotment; divide the cream cheese into 5 2-ounce servings. You could also
opt for 5 ounces of macadamia nuts split into 5 1-ounce servings and
consumed throughout the day.

That's not a lot of food. I find that when I do the Fat Fast I think about
food constantly. I don't obsess about food because I get hungry
(surprisingly, I do not get hungry), but simply because I can't have any -
at least not any that I really want. The Fat Fast makes regular strict low
carbing look absolutely luxurious.

I'm going to be completely honest here: I hate, loathe, and detest doing
the Fat Fast. I get very grumpy because I get frustrated. My family says
that I don't, but that just makes me think that they don't notice the
difference because maybe, just maybe, I'm a pretty grumpy person all the
time. It's either that or the kids are ignoring me in the same way they do
when I tell them to clean their rooms or do their homework. Or perhaps
they simply value their lives and know when to keep their mouths shut. The
survival instinct is very strong in my brood.

(***Note: "But I was doing the Fat Fast!" is not a legitimate legal
defense for mayhem or murder. I know this is true. I've checked.)

OK, I know what you want to ask me: "If the Fat Fast is so incredibly
awful, why do you do it, you stupid woman?!?" (Well, you might not say the
"stupid woman" part because you are ever so polite, but I know you're
thinking it.)

Why? Because it works for me. If I am not in ketosis when I start the Fat
Fast, I am when it's over. If I am having cravings to beat the band and
hanging on by the skin of my teeth, when the Fat Fast is over the cravings
are G - O - N - E and I'm perfectly happy to go back to munching on
chicken legs and salads. If I've hit a plateau and stopped losing weight,
my weight loss is jump started.

I've done the Fat Fast a half a dozen times in the last three years, and
each time I have lost between 5 and 8 pounds during the three-day cycle.
After I go back to eating normal low carb, I gain 2 to 4 of those pounds
back, but have always ended up with a net loss for the 3-day period of
between 2 to 4 pounds. (Your experience may be different from mine. The
only way to find out for sure is to try it.)

Of course, a lot of people don't even consider doing the Fat Fast to get
into ketosis or to break a stall because they can't stand the idea of
subsisting on plain cream cheese and/or macadamia nuts for 3 days. I don't
know about you, but I would be more likely to be able to cut off my big
toe with a dull paring knife than I would be able to gag down 10 ounces of
plain cream cheese. My throat closes up at the very thought. And I don't
particularly like macadamia nuts, either.

Well, I don't have to choke down plain cream cheese or eat macadamia nuts,
thank goodness. You don't, either. Dr. Atkins lists several alternatives
in his chapter on the Fat Fast, and although caviar and avocados don't
appeal to me, you may very well like them.

I have also developed a list of alternative food choices for the Fat Fast,
which I've listed below. Some of them don't quite come up to the "90% of
the calories from fat" parameter, but they come close enough and have
worked for me.

Fat Fast Ideas And Recipes

There is one further plus to the Fast Fast which I haven't mentioned.
There is very little food preparation involved. None of the ideas or
recipes listed below will take you more than 5 minutes to prepare.

1. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream in a large mug of coffee (I use this
to jump start my day and prevent abuse of those near and sometimes dear to
me. In the summer I make it the night before and put it in the
refrigerator, then pour it over ice. You could also pour it into popsicle
molds and freeze it for Coffee Fat Fasticles. Yum!)

2. 4 strips of bacon

3. Peanut Butter Cream Cheese
* 1 ounce cream cheese
* 1 tablespoon sugar free peanut butter
* 1 tablespoon heavy or whipping cream
* 10 drops Liquid Sweet & Low (or artificial sweetener of your
choice)
* 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Blend all ingredients in a small bowl.

Serves 1. Approximately 208 calories.

***Note: If you life this one, make up several servings at one time
and stick them into the refrigerator in custard cups for individual
servings. That way you only have one cleanup.

4. 2 ounces of cream cheese stuffed in one large celery stalk

5. 1/2 pork rinds with 2 ounces of sour cream

6. Pork Rinds With Sour Cream Dip (This is not my recipe - Judi (Island
Girl) forwarded it to me.)
* 1/2 ounce plain pork rinds (1/6 of 3-ounce bag)
* 1/4 cup sour cream
* 1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese
Blend parmesan into sour cream and use as dip for pork rinds

Without Parmesan: 164 calories, 8 grams fat (79%)

With Parmesan: 187 calories, 15 grams fat (77%)

7. 2 tablespoons of sugar free peanut butter on an approximately 7
1/2-inch stalk of celery.

8. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream, whipped, sweetened with artificial
sweetener, and flavored with vanilla or some other extract.

9. 2 ounces of sour cream on approximately 1/2 cup sliced cucumber.

10. Tuna or chicken salad with triple the usually amount of mayonnaise.

I cook the bejeebers out of a whole chicken in the crockpot until
the meat is literally falling off the bones, then shred the meat and save
it for chicken salad or for soups. I strain the broth carefully (watch for
small bones!) and freeze it.

I will usually reuse the broth to cook more than one chicken, which
results in a superb, flavorful extra-strength broth which is great to sip
on if you're sick.

11. 2 egg yolks mashed up with lots of mayonnaise, salt, and pepper
(like you would for deviled eggs), but eaten plain or with a few pork
rinds, cucumber slices, or a celery stick

12. Peanut Butter Pudding (This is Rani Merens' recipe.)
* 2 tablespoons of sour cream
* 1 teaspoon sugar free peanut butter
* Splenda (to taste)
Combine all the ingredients. This thickens up magnificently, and can
either be eaten "as is" or partially frozen, but don't let it get rock
hard unless you just want to suck on it.

***Note: If you life this one, make up several servings at one time
and stick them into the refrigerator in custard cups for individual
servings. That way you only have one cleanup.

13. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream in a can of diet soda (any flavor)

14. 1/2 package sugar free Jell-O in 1/2 cup whipped heavy or whipping
cream

15. 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream, whipped, with 1 teaspoon
unsweetened cocoa powder and a few drops of liquid artificial sweetener
added (to taste).

***Note: If you life this one, make up several servings at one time
and stick them into the refrigerator in custard cups for individual
servings. That way you only have one cleanup.

16. Jell-O Whip (Someone named Chris sent this to me a couple of years
ago.)
* 1 small package sugar free Jell-O (any flavor)
* 1/2 cup boiling water
* 4 ice cubes
* 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature and cut into cubes
* 4 tablespoons heavy or whipping cream
Dissolve the Jell-O completely in the boiling water, then add the
ice cubes to cool it down and to thicken it.

When the ice cubes are melted, pour the gelatin mixture in the
blender and add the cutup cream cheese. Whirl it around until the
ingredients are completely blended. Pour the mixture into a mixing bowl.

Whip the four ounces of cream, then fold it into the cream cheese
mixture.

Divide the mixture into 5 equal portions, cover each with plastic
wrap, and put them in the refrigerator to chill.

This makes 5 servings, or all the you need for one day of the Fat
Fast. Of course, you wouldn't have to eat all 5 servings in one day. You
could alternate them with other food choices.

17. Cream Cheese Jell-O Chunks (Someone sent me this idea, too, but I've
misplaced their name).

10 ounces cream cheese, cut into 20 equal squares (Not softened!) 1
small packet sugar free Jell-O, any flavor

Pour the dry gelatin powder into a small bowl or onto a salad plate.
Set aside.

Roll the 20 cream cheese squares into balls. Roll each ball in the
dry gelatin mixture. Place the coated balls on a plate, cover them with
plastic wrap, and put them in the refrigerator until you're ready to eat
them

Each Fat Fast serving is 4 balls.

I've never run into that.

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"Carb Freebie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Has any one tried the fat fast?

=====================
It didn't help me any. If you try it you better have a lot of both
Metamucil and some anti-diarreal on hand. Some people need one or the

other

Quoted message said:

when duing these fat fasts.
--
Wysong
Age 60. Height 5'6"
Starting date: 1/8/05
171/ 167 / 140 lb
==========================================

The "Fat Fast" is our "sacrament" at the Low Carb High Fat Yahoo group.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LowCarbHighFat/

"Carb Freebie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Has any one tried the fat fast?

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:39:52 GMT, "Carb Freebie" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Has any one tried the fat fast?

I've done it twice.

I had stalled both times and wanted to try something other than
fasting. Fasting always works better and faster, but Atkin's fat
fast is easier on the body and slightly easier to endure. I still
hate it though and in a perfect world, I would maintain normal low
carb eating and increase the exercise to break the stall.
Unfortunately, I resist exercise with a passion.

"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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No, and it can't be found in Google either.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

What? Wrong again Mr. Troll... you once again prove how little you know,
except how to be nasty to people. Any Atkins vet knows all about the fat
fast.

--
*7 years & 50 lbs permanently off Atkins Guy

JC Der Koenig said:

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

Methinks your sarcasm got lost among the crowd.

Marsha/Ohio

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I just started the Fat Fast today,
this has a lot of options! 🙂

-Michelle

Carb Freebie said:

Has any one tried the fat fast?

Almost exclusively done by people who are not
qualified to do it. The fat fast is for people
who could never get into ketosis at 20 carb
grams total per day, not deducting fiber or any
of the other excuse-deductions. Nearly without
exception the people who do it never qualified.

That said, there are reasons for doing it even
though you're not qualified. For plateau
busitng it's maybe the fifth tactic to try.
For folks who have tried the usual stuff first:
more carbs, less carbs, more fat, less fat,
more total calories, less total calories and
none of those works the extreme move of the
fat fast makes sense.

When it doesn't make sense is for the standard
week 3 pause, because someone didn't see a new
low in the last week after seeing new lows under
a month ago, folks who have stalled because they
refuse to move on to OWL and so on.

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JC Der Koenig said:

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

Methinks your sarcasm got lost among the crowd.

So it seems.

LOL

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

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"JC Der Koenig" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

What? Wrong again Mr. Troll... you once again prove how little you know,
except how to be nasty to people. Any Atkins vet knows all about the fat
fast.

--
*7 years & 50 lbs permanently off Atkins Guy

JC Der Koenig said:

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Quoted message said:

JC Der Koenig said:

No, and it can't be found in Google either.

Methinks your sarcasm got lost among the crowd.

So it seems.

Me thinks JC is truely to stupid to Google properly.

To, or too?

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW

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JC Der Koenig said:

"Marsha" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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JC Der Koenig wrote:

>No, and it can't be found in Google either.
>

Methinks your sarcasm got lost among the crowd.

So it seems.

Me thinks JC is truely to stupid to Google properly.

"Almost exclusively done by people who are not
qualified to do it. The fat fast is for people
who could never get into ketosis at 20 carb
grams total per day, not deducting fiber or any
of the other excuse-deductions. Nearly without
exception the people who do it never qualified."

Here's another one of your classic baseless assertions presented as
authoritative fact. And since when did deducting fiber from the carb
count become an "excuse-deduction" Do you even know anything at all
about Atkins?

"When it doesn't make sense is for the standard
week 3 pause, because someone didn't see a new
low in the last week after seeing new lows under
a month ago,"

I suppose this gem comes from your internet observations too. Where
are all these people doing fat fasts at 3 weeks? I don't see them,
apparently only you find them for your record books.

JC Der Koenig said:

To, or too?

Take your pick Turd brain