Egg Fast!! Who's in?

paperpudding

. Instead you just turned it into a big joke.

Yep this is all one big yolk :laugh:

FIT_Goat

While this is certainly not exciting, it's not as nutritionally unbalanced as people make it sound. Heck if you have 8 eggs, a whole stick of butter, and 4.5 oz of cheese... you're at around 1,900 calories and pretty good on a lot of micro nutrients. Throw in a multi-vitamin, a magnesium supplement, and use "lite" salt (for some potassium)... and you're hitting 100% or very close to 100% on just about everything but Vitamin K. Use butter from grass fed cows, and you're probably getting 100% of that too (since Vitamin K is found in higher amounts in grass fed butter than standard butter).

The magnesium and lite salt are pretty standard for low-carb people (especially at the start where supplementing when them helps a lot with the transition).

You could probably get away without using the vitamin or the supplements with little issues. But, when you throw them in with grass fed butter, this is shockingly nutritionally complete.

This is a link to images of the nutritional profiles I mention above. One is without the supplements. The other is with them.
http://imgur.com/a/NuLUK

I doubt doing this for 3 days would cause any harm. Not sure if it would be more beneficial than other food combinations that gave the same macros. But, if this is something that appeals to a person, it doesn't look as horrible as the description makes it seem. Also, I left out the avocado in the above. Adding that (either in place of cheese/butter or in addition to it) would only improve the nutritional profile).

Sarauk2sf

While this is certainly not exciting, it's not as nutritionally unbalanced as people make it sound. Heck if you have 8 eggs, a whole stick of butter, and 4.5 oz of cheese... you're at around 1,900 calories and pretty good on a lot of micro nutrients. Throw in a multi-vitamin, a magnesium supplement, and use "lite" salt (for some potassium)... and you're hitting 100% or very close to 100% on just about everything but Vitamin K. Use butter from grass fed cows, and you're probably getting 100% of that too (since Vitamin K is found in higher amounts in grass fed butter than standard butter).

The magnesium and lite salt are pretty standard for low-carb people (especially at the start where supplementing when them helps a lot with the transition).

You could probably get away without using the vitamin or the supplements with little issues. But, when you throw them in with grass fed butter, this is shockingly nutritionally complete.

Fiber?

brianpperkins

When you depend on throwing in this supplement, that supplement, and a multivitamin you're making the case why this diet has serious flaws even for just three days.

FIT_Goat

Fiber?

I consume as little fiber as possible, intentionally, already. It only causes me to be gassy and constipated. You can certainly survive without it. It's not essential. I wouldn't consider it something to worry about. If you really can't think of living without fiber, you can consider that as another supplement (a little sugar-free Metamucil in water a 2-3 times a day).

When you depend on throwing in this supplement, that supplement, and a multivitamin you're making the case why this diet has serious flaws even for just three days.

The diet doesn't depend on throwing any supplements in. Take a look at the breakdown (edited to add the images), without any additional stuff. Take a week's worth of food (without any supplements) of your own and put it in. Chances are, there would be a couple or more days where you don't get close to 100% on everything. Getting 100% on everything is harder than it looks. You've likely got several days that look the same or worse than the egg fast.

And, being short on a few nutrients for 3 days is certainly not going to kill anyone. If you were going to do this forever, then the spots where the diet falls short would need to be considered for supplementation. And, it doesn't take much to get where you need to be across the board.

Edit: For that matter, I'm willing to bet most people here take at least a multivitamin. And most ultra-low-carb people take additional magnesium and potassium in some form. When you initially adapt, all that water weight you lose takes a bunch of sodium, magnesium, and potassium out of your body and can leave you short. After adaptation, you don't need to supplement any more (because you're not losing large amounts in urine anymore). If they haven't continued to supplement, they would probably still have these on hand and could easily add them for 3 days to make the diet nearly perfect.

Edit 2: All that said, I am certainly not in. I don't see how it would benefit me, and I would just end up sick of eggs. I just don't think it's as bad as it seems at first glance. On the surface, it seems horribly unbalanced and nutritionally void. When investigated, it's not really.

abadvat

You are only allowed to eat chocolate for 3 days.... you will lose 20lb guaranteed! :laugh:

I have started a variation of your diet - bacon and chocolate, alternate every 3 hours (but 20 minutes is also fine) chocolate and bacon. You can do it for 3 days (but 15 is fine too!)!

So I can't eat chocolate and bacon together!?! Maybe if I eat every 40 minutes

That might trigger a counter reaction - fat and sugars together is similar to eating carbs after 6 PM... you might get fat / put all the weight lost till date back on overnight!
Try by switching the lights off when you eat - maybe if you don't see what you eat your body will react differently!

stewartcarden

This sounds eggcellent.
I'm very eggcited about this!!

On second thoughts, please eggcuse me.

I may have eggagerated my interest.





Was I hell reading through 7 pages of comments. Just posted a few in case no one else did, or if they missed a few...

=D

SEAFOODMAN

Is that the famous seafood diet- sea food and eat it? :laugh:

Sorry OP, I like eggs from time to time - but no way I want to eat half dozen every day, let alone follow all the other silly rules.

you got it.........I see it, I eat it! :laugh:

riley_s

Wow so many misinformed people on here, towing the line of old knowledge. Check out Time magazine, National Geographic, how many other new studies showing that high fat, low carb is very beneficial for your health.

Eggs are as close to a perfect food source as we have. And incredibly satiating . If you can't eat anything else you restrict your options, feel full, eat less. To help you break through a weight loss plateau, it's worked for others, it's full of nutrition, why not? And it's only for a few days..

Trying to attack / make fun of the poster and saying it's silly without knowing / researching any alternatives to how you yourself eat, come on...

Lleldiranne

Wow so many misinformed people on here, towing the line of old knowledge. Check out Time magazine, National Geographic, how many other new studies showing that high fat, low carb is very beneficial for your health.

Eggs are as close to a perfect food source as we have. And incredibly satiating . If you can't eat anything else you restrict your options, feel full, eat less. To help you break through a weight loss plateau, it's worked for others, it's full of nutrition, why not? And it's only for a few days..

Trying to attack / make fun of the poster and saying it's silly without knowing / researching any alternatives to how you yourself eat, come on...

Nice necro.

And claiming Time or National Geographic are any sort of authority when it comes to research... :huh:

Strong first post :ohwell:

(And FWIW, I dont' think there's anything wrong with fat, or with eating eggs. But I do have issues with any sort of restriction diet, whether it's "close to a perfect food source" or not.)

gvrbabygirl

yikes, this forum is not at all low carb friendly...good luck on your egg fast..

crisb2

@gvrbabygirl this post is from July, but I'm curious if @missliv85 1) actually went through with it, b) if she was already keto-adapted and 3) what was the result.