Instead, I'm going to try a month long experiment. I've been reading this guy's blog. www.bulletproofexec.com He basically is a body-hacker guy who is ripping off paleo dieting, leangains IF, and some other biofeedback stuff to try to squeeze more performance out of his body. I have no issue with the ripping off other than he's trying really hard to monetize it. He has some pretty far-out hippy shit that he talks about too. 'Earthing Mats' and stuff... Not sure what to think about that stuff.
One of the most captivating things is his 'bulletproof coffee' which basically amounts to butter, coconut oil, and 16 oz of coffee in the A.M. His logic is that the short/medium chain triglycerides are brain fuel, filling, and allow you to make it through to your first meal more easily and with more energy. He talks about how sluggish you can feel doing an IF and grumpy, etc. I have experienced this with my 2x a week 24 hour fasts that I've been doing for several months. I'm intrigued enough to try this method.
In conjunction with this, he uses a 18 hours fasted, 6 hours fed IF protocol. This is done daily. So you just don't eat till 2pm, then you eat the foods on this diagram in the 'green section' until 8pm. I don't expect that I'll be eating only grass-fed beef/butter/ and broccoli, but I will comply to the feeding window.
Another weird thing he recommends is taking salt immediately upon waking. 1/2 Tsp with 16oz of water. He argues that it helps in the AM when your body needs sodium to help 'wake you up'. I haven't dug into this at all, but salt is good so I'll try it.
He also talks about myotoxins and fungi on coffee beans. I'm going to go ahead and disregard that as well. The crux is that you feel fed and energized during those crucial waking hours when you feel like having a bite.
I am a little concerned with the extra calories that 2 Tbl of butter and 1 Tbl of coco oil adds. I'll see how it affects me. I'm going to attempt to not change anything else to see if the daily fasts mixed with calories from butter change anything for the better.
The greatest reason I expect it to work is that my fasted state goes PAST my jobs standard lunch hour. I'll miss out on a LOT of lunches at restaurants. More savings, less crap food, more fat loss. If the coffee keeps me sated for those first hours until 2pm, then even better.
His main gripe with non grassfed butter is that it has lower amounts of D, CLA, and assorted other vitamins. I supplement Vitamin D, take a multi, and have Conjugated linoleic acid, so I'm not sweating that too much. Also... come at me myotoxins.
My current weight is 190.4lbs.
Daily supplements (when I remember):
multi, D3, fish oil, ZMA before bed
Will report back.
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