Re: Fasting and fat burning (edit)

For me, i would generally eat only fruit (or live juice) before noon, then 3 simple and properly combined meals of protein (fish or beef or chicken or eggs with a disproportionate amount of whites) with raw vegetables...

or starch (sweet potato or oatmeal, amaranth, millet, brown rice, beans) with nuts or cheese and raw vegetables.

Often i would precede these meals with live juice, carrot, beet, celery, lettuce, parsley with a dash of cayanne pepper is a favorite. I would let this pass through the stomach before eating.

2 or all 3 of these meals would contain a good portion of leafy lettuce or raw spinach... (i was later able to stomach some raw kale smoothie as well as other raw healthy juices or smoothies from asparagas, broccoli, or other foods). I picked up a vitamix by the way which only adds to the fun :). Other raw vegetable favorites are red/yellow/orange bell peppers, tomatos and onions.

After 8pm, i would only have light foods again: fruit or live juice or fresh vegetable broth (usually from any combination of the following: kale, collard greens, swiss chard, bok choy and other leafy green veg.. also broccoli, garlic, onions). Pretty much as much of these light foods as i wanted.

Key supplements: Fish oil when not eating salmon, green tea capsules, co-q10, liquid vitamin/minerals, acai/goji juice.

Sounds like a lot of food perhaps, and it is generally 5-7 small meals per day, but i did lose 20 pounds over 80 days eating this way, while actually building a little muscle at the same time... and never felt hungry. In fact, i began to intentionally slow the weight loss in the last several weeks to focus more on the muscle support... originally i was doing about 2200 calories in this plan and worked my way up (by choice) to about 3000 in the end anticipating a fast (which i am doing now) to be able to focus on fat loss again. Another key to the 20 pounds of fat burning was engaging in short duration high intensity cardio.