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by Guest Author October 10, 2013 6 min read
This article goes like:
(We decided to give you guys the results up front so we don’t leave you hanging for too long)
Back in April 2012 I was on the tail end of a debaucherous Fiji holiday (which was precluded by a stressful time at work so I hadn’t been taking v. good care of myself in the weeks leading up to it either - it happens from time to time!), being a fairly impatient person I felt like I needed a bit of a jump start to get back into the swing of things.
Enter the Bulletproof Diet “Rapid Fat Loss Protocol”…
Feeling fairly stress free on the tail end of the holiday the idea was to use the RFLP as a way to jumpstart my way back into a healthy physical state. The diet is basically a cyclic ketogenic diet with some systems thinking put into supplementation and food quality to ensure that it isn’t unnecessarily stressful on your body and also to address vitamin/mineral deficiencies that appear when you limit your diet to butter, Bulletproof Coffee and MCT oil. Cyclic ketogenic diets are pretty commonly used by bodybuilders in their cutting phase so I was confident that it would work, but I had never done anything that extreme so I was curious to see how I would respond.
I was pretty attracted to the thought of losing a LOT of weight in a short amount of time – its always nice to get to your goals in a shorter amount of time! Speaking of goals, at the time my initial thoughts on the process were:
Well I did lose a lot of weight! Especially the first couple of days when I dumped over a kg a day. HOWEVER this is all due to dumping water weight from drawing on my carb reservoir (for every 1 g of carbs stored your body stores 4g of water!!!). Think about that next time you see an ad on tellie promising 1kg / day fat loss in the first week, its not fat its just water – you will notice it because you’ll go to the loo about 100 times.
What really surprised me was that the weight loss continued at a pretty rapid pace throughout the 2 weeks, almost maintaining the 1lb / day rate talked about in the article. The experiment was a pretty considerable success considering that I wasn’t fully compliant with the protocol. See the table below for my scale measurements. (total weight loss ~6kgs in 2 weeks, pretty impressive. Note how pronounced the water re-gain is on the re-feed days!!!)
I’ve noted down some of the things that stood out to me throughout the process:
Overall it was a good way to lose a lot of fat in a short amount of time but it wasn’t without its challenges:
Questions or comments then let us know below :-)
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