Dana Carpender - Fat Fast Cookbook: 50 Easy Recipes to Jump Start Your Low Carb Weight Loss

I am really impressed with the recipes in this book. Dana & Co. did a great job. The recipes are fun, innovative, varied and easy. If one must do the fat fast, this book is a blessing.

Jacqueline Eberstein, R.N.

Controlled Carbohydrate Nutrition , co-author of Atkins Diabetes Revolution .

Are you ready to burn some fat? A Fat Fast is an effective way to start the fire. Dana Carpender and the CarbSmart team have cooked up some really tasty tidbits to keep hunger at bay while you rev up your metabolism with the magic of nutritional ketosis. You might think eating 1,000 calories a day, with 90% of them from fat, would require a lot of discipline. You may even doubt that you could do it. This book will change your mind. The authors show you how to eat a rich and varied diet while eating in a way that lets you access your stored fat for energy. These are recipes you will continue to use long after you have reached your ideal weight. Who would have guessed you could lose weight eating like this?

Judy Barnes Baker

Author of Nourished: A Cookbook for Health, Weight Loss, and Metabolic Balance and Carb Wars: Sugar is the New Fat .

Looking to ditch the junk in your trunk, thin your thighs, and whittle your middle? This comprehensive guide not only shares why everything you thought you knew about fat-fasting was wrong, readers will glean extensive information, recipes and pictures so sexy youll want to dress them in fishnets and spank their little bottoms. This book is a must-read for moving the scale in the right direction.

Jamie VanEaton,

CarbSmart Press
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Las Vegas, NV 89125-0635

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Photography Copyright 2013 by Amy Dungan & Jeff Guyer

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All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, address , CarbSmart, Inc., P.O. Box 635, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0635 . The information and recipes contained in this publication are intended to be helpful for those following a low-carbohydrate diet like the Atkins Diet and for anyone preparing meals following a low-carbohydrate dietary approach. While the publisher, the authors, and CarbSmart, Inc., believe the material in this book to be reliable, they make no representations or warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of its contents, and specifically disclaim any and all warranties of any kind, expressed or implied. The information and recipes contained herein may not be suitable for every reader, as each individual s general health condition will differ. Each reader should consult his or her medical or health-care professional before adopting a low-carbohydrate diet. The publisher, authors, and CarbSmart, Inc., specifically disclaim all responsibility, liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, which may be incurred as a result, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.

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Everyone I know following a low-carbohydrate diet hits a plateau. Everyone. For some people, the weight-loss stall lasts for a few days and for some it lasts for a few months. The last thing I want is for anyone to give up on the low-carb lifestyle because of these stalls.

This book is dedicated to everyone who wants to break a low-carb stall and continue to succeed on a low-carb diet. These recipes are written for you.

This cookbook is also dedicated to Marcy Guyer who has worked with me for many, many years and who works very hard behind the scenes at CarbSmart to keep our business running.

by Dana Carpender

For decades we have been told that fat makes us fat. After all, the logic goes, since fats have nine calories per gram, while proteins and carbs have four calories per gram, if we slash the fat from our diets, well be able to eat the same or an even greater volume of food and lose weight. After all, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Right?

Wrong. Prepare to have your mind blown.

A Fat Fast is a diet in which a) caloric intake (joules, if youre in that part of the world) is strictly limited, and b) the vast majority of those caloriesideally 90%come from fat. In Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution , Dr. Robert C. Atkins recommended using a Fat Fast of 1,000 calories per day, 90% of them from fat, to break through metabolic resistance to weight loss.

A really brilliant crazy idea, and one backed up by research.

For over 30 years, we have been told that all that matters is calories-in versus calories-out; if we wish to lose weight, limiting calories is all that matters, not where those calories come from. Thats why we have 100 calorie packs and ads for everything from yogurt to breakfast cereal to soup that tout, not how nutritious they are, but how few calories they contain. But is the calorie theory correct?

Theres little doubt that most people will lose weight if they restrict calories sufficiently, regardless of the source of those calories. If you ate just 200 calories per day of Moon Pies, you would very likely lose weight. Also your energy, your health, your muscle mass, and possibly your hair. But hey, youd lose weight.

But will you lose an equal amount of weight with the same degree of caloric restriction, regardless of the source? Will the same percentage of pounds lost come from your stored fat mass, rather than your lean body mass? Or does the kind of calories you eat make a difference in how much fat you burn?

I assume that youve guessed by now that it does, or I wouldnt be writing this. How big a difference? A really, really big difference. Dig this:

In 1956, a groundbreaking study appeared in the highly respected medical journal The Lancet . Two British researchers, Prof. Alan Kekwick and Dr. Gaston L. S. Pawan, decided to look at this question of whether the type of calories consumed affected fat burning. A few years earlier, Dr. Alfred Pennington published an article in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition regardinghis experience treating obesity with a calorically unrestricted ketogenic diet. Pennington asserted that his patients did not experience the drop in basal metabolic rate that usually accompanies caloric restriction, because ketosis allowed them to access their stored body fat, giving them all the energythe caloriesthey needed to maintain the higher metabolic rate. (Ketosis is a physiological state where, because youre not feeding it glucosecarbsyour body is running on fatty acids (fat burning, yay!), and a by-product of fat burning called ketone bodies , or ketones for short. Most of your bodys tissues can run on fatty acids, but some, especially the brain, cannot, but can burn ketones just fine.) Kekwick and Pawan wanted to expand on this information.