Fat Adapted Keto Fasting- Best Approaches to burning Fat

 

Fat Adapted Keto Fasting- Best Approaches to burning Fat

Everyone is slowly hearing about a Ketogenic Diet, and how eating high fat, and ditching the carbs will help burn fat. As I agree that high fat is our healthiest Macronutrient, let’s not be a jerk about how much we eat of it. 300g of fat a day for a non athelete person who is struggling with Type 2 Diabetes may not get the best results for weight loss, or even inflammation (depending on the fats). But, at first, I advocate for people to eat fat until satiety! We are trying to signal the body to burn fat as it’s primary fuel source so we want to make sure that their bodies are recieving that signal.

Fat Adaptation

Once your body has up regulated the right machinery to burn fat as it’s primary fuel, than they key to optimize fat loss, is to start stripping the fats out of the diet so that we can burn our favorite fuel source off of our belly, thighs, hips, and booty. Not to mention all the other benefits that come from fat adaptation like Mental clarity, Energy, Less cravings for food, and the ability to fast for long periods without feeling “hangry “or shaky. Once this is achieved, in usually 1-3 months, than you can employ some really simple strategies to meet your Body composition goals (not to mention your health goals like reversing diabetes, insulin resistance, lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, relief from acid re-flux, and many many more).

My Keto/Water Fasting Experiment

 My opinion has always been that you don’t want to restrict calories for too long. Otherwise the body will start a hormonal response that not only consumes muscle tissue for fuel, but also lowers our rate of metabolism. this means, we want to coax the body to burn fat by mildly restricting calories (200-400 daily) so we don’t elevate the stress hormones that cause the ill effects. The contrast to that is Water Fasting. Many studies by Dr. Jason Fung, show that fasting doesn’t alter metabolic rate nearly as much Caloric Restriction. Water Fasting when you are fat Adapted to ketogenic diet, also has the Accelerated ability to burn a ton of fat off your body, while at the same time consuming very little muscle. 

   I decided to put my logic to the test in a simple 10 day experiment. I was about 10 pounds heavier than normal, and was starting to feel it in my knees and feet (plantar Fasciitis). By the way I have a separate video that is how fasting cleared up my plantar fasciitis. It seemed like the perfect time to put together a way that I could show my clients how to properly use these modalities of fasting and Keto.

As you will see in the video above, I restricted fat calories from my keto diet for 7 days, and then showed my results. I then, immediately started a 3 day water fast to accelerate fat burning, and then showed my results. At the finish of the 10 day mark, I was down 7 lbs, 1.5% Body fat, and inch and half around my waist. I then add back in ample calories to signal the body that it doesn’t need to release stress hormones, and that we are not in a famine. I’ll go into more on this approach of “coaxing fat burning” on a future article. If you have questions on this feel free to email me at Musclesandveggies@gmail.com.

Thanks for tuning in! Enjoy your day!

Zach

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