Egg Fast Diet Menu Plan (Low Carb & Keto) and FAQs. Ok, so I’m finally posting the Egg Fast Diet menu plan! There are 5 days on the plan and two days of transition to come off the plan – hopefully without gaining all the weight back.! NO. The first and second day of the plan are when you will be most likely able to tolerate eggs in their basic form. Remember 1 egg – 1 Tbsp fat – UP TO (but I recommend less) 1 oz cheese per egg. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSWhere can I go for support and help while on the egg fast diet? In addition to posting questions and your progress here in the comments, you can also join the IBIH Community Forum and head over to the Egg Fast Forum to meet others who are doing the egg fast and coordinate weekly challenges, etc. I like the menu for Day 4, can I just eat that all five days? Sure, go nuts. Can I have heavy whipping cream (HWC) on the egg fast diet? No. This plan doesn’t use heavy whipping cream. If you want to risk it and can’t stand to drink your coffee any other way, then go ahead and try it – if you’re not losing weight, the first thing to go should be the HWC and see if that makes a difference. If you do it with HWC and lose a bunch of weight, please let us know in the comments so others will know it’s possible. Can I drink alcohol on this egg fast plan? Welcome to Boxing for Life! This site is dedicated to teach individuals how to box, and to give back to the sport that has helped change my life.No. Alcohol impedes liver function and you need your liver focused on metabolizing your fat – otherwise what’s the point of putting yourself through this? Why Bulletproof Coffee (BPC) and what is it? Bulletproof coffee is coffee made with MCT oil (or coconut oil), and grassfed unsalted butter. It has thermogenic (fat burning) properties, and gives you ridiculous amounts of energy. Plus it tastes amazing. To make it: Combine 6- 8 ounces of coffee with 1 Tbsp unsalted butter (I use Kerrygold), and 1 Tbsp of MCT oil (coconut oil works if you can’t get MCT oil). You can also add sugar free sweetener – I make Mr. Hungry’s with Splenda (he prefers it) and cinnamon – it’s yummy. The key to good BPC is that you emulsify it. I use this battery- powered, hand- held frother thingy and it works great. Others make it in a magic bullet or blender and blend for 2. You can’t just stir it in with a spoon or you’ll have a gross oil slick on top. Ewww. Try bulletproof – you’ll never want to go back to heavy cream again – or at least we didn’t! Do I need to be in ketosis already to do the egg fast diet? No, but it will be easier if you are – the detox symptoms of getting into ketosis can be rough already on first timers – doing something as extremely low carb as the egg fast right off the bat will be much harder. I recommend easing into it with my 3 Day Keto Kickstart Plan if you’re a complete newbie to any low carb plan. If you’re really desperate to get started on the egg fast though – go ahead and give it a shot, you’ve been warned. What should I drink while on the egg fast diet? Water – and lots of it! Aim for at least 1. Can I drink diet soda or other calorie free drinks on the egg fast diet? Diet soda is inherently unhealthy for you. Don’t stop taking any medications! If you aren’t already supplementing with magnesium and potassium (lite salt added to your food works best), then you should start. Be sure to get plenty of sodium as well. These three things will help you avoid getting cramps, headaches, and help regulate your fluids to avoid lightheadedness, heart palpitations, etc.
His book, 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease' is an important contribution to the field of how cancer starts and can be treated. Seyfried's work is also heavily featured. Oxboy August 14, 2012. Attia and forum members: I. Blood glucose testing all my life had always been around 85. How will I stay “regular?”Magnesium is a mild laxative and will help with this if you’re supplementing (as you should be.) In addition, because you are eating so much fat, it should keep things running smoothly. Bulletproof coffee is your friend. Is any cheese ok on this egg fast diet plan? Any full fat, less than 1g net carb per ounce type of cheese should be ok. That may even mean eating more than this plan calls for – especially in the first couple of days. I couldn’t stand the thought of another egg by Day five. Moyer Instruments, Inc. Wellington Laboratories Inc. That being said, if you want to experiment with a handful of spinach here, a few romaine leaves there, some chopped onions and peppers thrown into your eggs, etc. I’m not the boss of you and neither is the egg fast. Here’s the problem – looking for loopholes and making eggceptions (sorry, couldn’t help myself and I should get credit for holding out this long with no egg puns by the way – it wasn’t easy, ya know!) with a little of this and a little of that is a slippery slope. Bruno's Marketplace offers gourmet food products from Northern California, including Bruno's Wax Peppers, Sierra Nevada Chileno Peppers, Waterloo BBQ Sauce, Bruno's. META-INF/MANIFEST.MFname/audet/samuel/shorttyping/ShortDictManager$BufferedStream.classname/audet/samuel/shorttyping/ShortDictManager.classname/audet/samuel. If you want to do the egg fast the way it was intended by the originators – you don’t eat any fruits or vegetables. The end. Got a question that’s not in the FAQ’s?? Can’t wait to hear your results – be sure to keep us all posted on how you’re doing through the week! Click here to download a printer friendly version of the plan! Egg Fast Menu Plan. Day One. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT oil or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter)(sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 1 String Cheese. Lunch. 1/2 cup Simple Egg Salad. Snack. 1 string cheese. Dinner. 1 serving Buffalo Omelette. Day 2. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT oil or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter)(sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 1 String Cheese. Lunch. 1/2 cup Simple Egg Salad. Snack. 1 string cheese. Dinner. 2 (or more) Snickerdoodle Crepes. Day 3. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT oil or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter)(sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 1 String Cheese. Lunch. 1 Cream Cheese Pancake, 1 Tbsp sugar free mayonnaise, 1 deli slice cheddar cheese. Snack. 2 Easy Deviled Eggs (4 halves)Dinner. Buffalo Omelette. Day 4. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT oil or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter)(sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 1 String Cheese. Lunch. 2 Snickerdoodle Crepes. Snack. 2 Easy Deviled Eggs (4 halves)Dinner. Salted Caramel Custard. Day 5. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter), (sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 2 Easy Deviled Eggs (4 halves)Lunch. Salted Caramel Custard. Snack. 1 string cheese. Dinner. 1 serving Fettuccini Alfredo. Day 6. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT oil or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter)(sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 1/2 avocado w/ lite salt and pepper. Lunch. 1/2 cup Simple Egg Salad. Snack. 1/2 avocado w/ lite salt and pepper. Dinner. 6 – 8 classic buffalo wings, celery sticks, 2 Tbsp blue cheese dressing. Day 7. Breakfast. Coffee or Tea – Black or Bulletproof (1 Tbsp MCT oil or coconut oil + 1 Tbsp unsalted butter)(sugar free sweetener if desired)2 – 3 eggs fried or scrambled with 2 Tbsp butter. Snack. 1/2 avocado w/ lite salt and pepper. Lunch. 1 serving Fettuccini Alfredo. Snack. 1/2 avocado w/ lite salt and pepper. Dinner. 1 serving No Chop Chili. Tbsp sour cream. 1 Tbsp chopped cilantro (optional)1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese. Pantry and Shopping Listground cumin (chili)ground coriander (chili)garlic powder (chili)onion powder (chili)dried oregano (chili)ground cinnamon (crepes)sugar free sweetener of choice (splenda, stevia, swerve, etc.)mayonnaise (sugar free)hot sauce (I like Frank’s Red Hot)green tobasco sauce (for the deviled eggs)blue cheese dressing (1g net carbs per serving or less)parmesan cheese. Shopping list(Go organic when and if you can)Produce. Dairy. 4 oz sour cream (for day 7)8 oz cream cheese. Grocerylite salt (half potassium half sodium)caramel extract (for the custard)MCT oil or coconut oil (if making bulletproof coffee)Meat. Frozennone. Prep List. Notes. The Fettuccini Alfredo and Buffalo Omelette are best made right before serving. Make 1 batch of Simple Egg Salad. Make 1 batch of Easy Deviled Eggs. Make 2 batches of Salted Caramel Custard on the evening of Day 3 so that they are chilled and ready to go by Day 4 and Day 5 when you’ll be eating them. Make 1 batch of Cream Cheese Pancakes to have on hand for Day 3 lunch that uses one, and the others as a backup for when you need something quick and don’t have time to cook. That’s a discount of over 3. GET ALL FIVE BOOKS (over 1. FOR JUST $1. 9. 9. Only $1. 9. 9. 9!!!! Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. By Dr. Mercola. Each year during the anniversary week of Mercola. Game Changer; someone whose work stands as a great service to humanity by making a significant contribution to improving people's health. This year, we present the Game Changer Award to Thomas Seyfried, Ph. D.,1 a professor of biology at Boston College and a leading expert and researcher in the field of cancer metabolism and nutritional ketosis. Seyfried's work is also heavily featured in Travis Christofferson's excellent book, . Worldwide, we're looking at a death toll of about 2. So many of these deaths are unnecessary — they're preventable and treatable. Seyfried is one of the pioneers in the application of nutritional ketosis for cancer; a therapy that stems from the work of Dr. Otto Warburg, who was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant biochemists of the 2. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1. Warburg also held a doctorate in chemistry and was personal friends with Albert Einstein and many of the most prominent scientists of his time. His life's mission was to find a cure for cancer, and he actually did. Unfortunately, few were able to appreciate the importance of his findings. Seyfried has followed in Warburg's scientific footsteps, and is conducting important research to advance this science. He has in fact exceeded Warburg's initial supposition, shedding important light on the metabolic underpinnings of cancer. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease The traditionally held view or dogma is that cancer is agenetic disease, but what Warburg discovered is that cancer is really caused by a defect in the cellular energy metabolism of the cell, primarily related to the function of the mitochondria, which are the little power stations within each cell. The mitochondria were not well understood in Warburg's time but, today, we have a much better understanding of how they work. In my view, this information is the game changer that not only treats cancer but virtually every single disease known to man, because at the core of most serious ailments you find mitochondrial dysfunction. As noted by Seyfried. The problem with dogma is that sometimes it blinds you to alternative views and sets up ideologies that are extremely difficult to change. All of the major college textbooks talk about cancer as a genetic disease. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) website, the first thing they say is cancer is a genetic disease caused by mutations .. It permeates the pharmaceutical industry, academic industry and textbook industry, the entire knowledge base. There's very little discussion of alternative views to the genetic view. The argument now is that, yes, metabolic problems occur in cancer cells. But these are all due to the genetic mutations. Therefore we must maintain ourselves on the established track that all of this metabolic stuff could be resolved if we just understood more about the genetic underpinning of the disease. Now that would be well and good if it were true. But evidence is accumulating that the mutations we see that are the prime focus and the basis for the genetic theory are actually epiphenomenal. They're downstream effects of this disturbance in the metabolism that Warburg originally defined back in the 1. If defective mitochondria are responsible for the origin of cancer, and defective energy metabolism is responsible for the majority of the phenotypes, i. In my view, one of Seyfried's most magnificent contributions to this science was his compilation of research from independent and well- respected scientists within various disciplines, who conducted valuable experiments but had no clue how to interpret the results. Seyfried put all of their work together, forming a strong scientific foundation for the theory that cancer is indeed a metabolic disease, not a genetic one, and that genetic mutations are a downstream effect of defective energy metabolism in the mitochondria. They were considered anomalies. They were not consistent with the view that cancer is a nuclear genetic disease .. I bundled all those observations together in a new light, looking at the conclusions of those experiments in light of whether the results would support a nuclear gene- based theory versus a mitochondrial metabolic theory .. It was just interpreting a series of experiments in light of the origin of the disease, and then asking what conclusion would these experiments support. Would it support the nuclear genetic theory of cancer, or would it support the mitochondrial metabolic theory of cancer? In each of these cases, the results more strongly supported the metabolic theory of cancer than the nuclear genetic theory. The hypothesis is that if cancer is nuclear- gene driven and the phenotype of cancer is dysregulated cell growth, meaning if genetic mutations are responsible for the observable characteristics of the disease, then those abnormal genes should be expressed in the new cytoplasm. But that's not what happened. Again and again, what was observed was that when the nuclei of a cancer cell were transferred into a healthy cytoplasm, the new cytoplasm did NOT form cancer. It remained healthy and normal. That abortion seems to be related to how many mutations were in the nucleus that was transferred. Rather, they were causing abortion at some developmental point of the organism that had those nuclei .. On the other hand, when the normal nucleus was transferred back into a cancer cytoplasm . When they transplanted normal mitochondria (with its nuclei intact) into cancer cell cytoplasm, it caused the cells to stop growing abnormally. It downregulated the oncogenes that were alleged to be driving the tumor and made the cells grow normally again. On the other hand, when they took the mitochondria from a tumor cell and moved it into a very slow- growing type of cancer cell, the cancer cells began growing very rapidly. As noted by Seyfried, . Li- Fraumeni syndrome,2 which raises your risk of developing cancer at a very young age, and BRCA1, which raises your breast cancer risk are two examples. So inherited mutations through the germ lines that cause cancer to affect the mitochondria, it is . It just so happens that the defect is coming from an inherited gene rather than a chemical carcinogen, radiation, viral infection or an infection of some parasite or whatever, all of which damage respiration; all of which can cause cancer. Clearly the origin of the disease is a disturbance of the respiratory capacity of that cell which then, if the cell is to survive, must upregulate genes necessary for fermentation. Many of those genes are the so- called oncogenes. The oncogenes are simply fulfilling a rescue event of that cell to function in a fermentation metabolism rather than an oxidative metabolism. We can downregulate oncogenes simply by putting in new respiration.? As explained by Seyfried, once the cells' respiration is damaged, that damage then leads to a compensatory fermentation, which requires the upregulation of oncogenes (cancer genes). Damaged respiration also produces large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and secondary free radicals that damage DNA proteins and lipids (fats inside your cellular membranes). The ROS also cause mutations in the nuclear genome. So the mutations are the result of defective respiration and subsequent exaggerated ROS production. Why the War on Cancer Has Not Yet Been Won. At present, the cancer industry is focusing on the downstream effects of the problem, which is why the . You're not going to be able to target all of the different cells using these kinds of approaches. Even though you may get success for a few months, or even a year in some people, the majority of people will not respond effectively to these kinds of therapies for the most part. ROS are mostly generated through the coenzyme Q couple in the electron transport chain. Both glucose and fatty acids produce FADH2, which can generate ROS. In contrast, fat- derived ketone bodies produce only NADH, which increases the redox span of the coenzyme Q couple and reduces production of ROS. Hence, ketone bodies are considered a more . Today, most people are burning glucose as their primary fuel, thanks to an overabundance of sugar and processed grains in the diet and a deficiency in healthy fats. If you have less ROS being generated in the mitochondria, you end up with less mitochondrial damage and less DNA damage. So not only is switching the fuel you're feeding your body the key component of cancer treatment, but in my view it's the primary way that you prevent cancer from occurring in the first place. One of the things that trigger cancer is inflammation. Chronic high levels of blood sugar create inflammation. This you see in a lot of situations. Glucose itself is not carcinogenic, but elevated dysregulated glucose metabolism can lead to inflammation, and can cause a number of other disturbances in the overall metabolism of the body. Your insulin levels go down. The body starts to metabolize fat for energy. But the fatty acids themselves are only one component. The major components of course are the ketone bodies .. They are water- soluble fat products. They readily enter cells and they're metabolized to acetyl- Co. A through a series of steps. These steps generate nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), which is a reducing equivalent. But they also keep the coenzyme Q couple in an oxidized state. This is very important because it's that coenzyme Q couple where ROS are in fact generated in the first place .. Ketones are clean fuel only in the sense that they suppress the formation of ROS, especially when blood sugar levels are low. Because if you have very high ketones AND high blood sugar, you have ketoacidosis, which is a life- threatening event. It's rare for a person with normal physiology to elevate their ketones above 7 or 8 millimole (mmol). If you have DKA, your ketones will be about 2. Additionally, your blood sugars will be very high, while in nutritional ketosis blood sugars are very low.
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