Egg Fast!! Who's in?

. Instead you just turned it into a big joke.

Yep this is all one big yolk :laugh:

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?

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.

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...

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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...

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