Bulletproof Diet?

[CzechCzar]

Ever since somebody first clued me onto it, I have been on the bulletproof diet. Bulletproof coffee, grain fed lamb, and vegeteables. My energy is constant throughout the day - no post-lunch crash - which is very nice.

I am curious if any other people are on this diet? What have your experiences been?

[Roo]

No but you definitely made me look it up! You losing weight?

[crullers]

I've been on a ketogenic diet for almost a month. Looks like the same principle (fatsroteins:vegetables) as the bulletproof diet, just not as strict or structured. The goal is to keep carb intake to less than 20g a day. I've lost 15 lbs but seem to have stalled the last week or so. I've done a bit of research and it appears that I need to up my fat intake some more. Seems counter-intuitive but makes sense given the science behind the diet. I agree, no post-lunch coma is great and my energy levels are much higher than they used to be. The first week or so I was in a bit of a fog but after that I haven't felt better. Here is a site I use for reference purposes, it gives a good explanation of the science and acceptable foods: http://josepharcita.blogspot.co.uk/2...o-ketosis.html.

[CzechCzar]

Yes!! I am doing bulletproof intermittent fasting. Coffee, butter, and MCT oil in the morning, bulletproof diet from 2 - 8 pm in the afternoons.

A bit of backstory: I went to celebrate pesache with my fiancee's family from the March 22 to April 1. I ate like a pig, gained weight. While there, I stumbled across the BP website thanks to a comment on this forum. It seemed legit, so I got the coffee.

The coffee, oil, and butter give me an insane amount of energy, with no crash like normal coffee. I was still having a carb crash in the afterrnoon, so I started doing the BP dieting as well.

HOLY FCUK. I am ON IT all day long. 8 am - 11 pm, pure energy, no crash. It is really easy, because I don't really like sweets that much. Bread and grains I miss a little bit, but it is an easy sacrifice to make for this insane amount of energy.

I am doing weightwatchers, and I weighed in yesterday. 1 week of eating like a pig, followed by a few days of only bulletproof coffee, and a few days of the full BP diet. I am down 3.2 lbs.

I'll keep updating this thread as I progress. He recommends certain supplements, which I have ordered. Overall, the diet is incredibly easy, as I can have as many calories as I want. Day before yesterday, I ate 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 tablespoons of MCT oil in the morning with the coffee and 2 grassfed lambchops, including the fat, for dinner. I was completely stuffed and probably had 2500 calories easy. Yesterday I had the same thing in the morning, with $40 worth of nigiri sushi and sashimi for dinner. Again, with this amount of energy, I don't care at all about bread or sweets.

[CzechCzar]

Thanks for the link!

The BP diet is basically a ketogenic diet, with the addition of the elimination of mycotoxins. Here is the link:

http://www.bulletproofexec.com/

Coincidentally, nicotine is apparently very good for you in this diet. It seems he'd recommend it if smoking / patches weren't so harmful. Hmmmmmmmmmm...

I've been on a ketogenic diet for almost a month. Looks like the same principle (fatsroteins:vegetables) as the bulletproof diet, just not as strict or structured. The goal is to keep carb intake to less than 20g a day. I've lost 15 lbs but seem to have stalled the last week or so. I've done a bit of research and it appears that I need to up my fat intake some more. Seems counter-intuitive but makes sense given the science behind the diet. I agree, no post-lunch coma is great and my energy levels are much higher than they used to be. The first week or so I was in a bit of a fog but after that I haven't felt better. Here is a site I use for reference purposes, it gives a good explanation of the science and acceptable foods: http://josepharcita.blogspot.co.uk/2...o-ketosis.html.

[Ansel]

5 minute abs?

[CzechCzar]

“Where do I start?”

This is something lots of people ask about the Bulletproof Diet. I spent a lot of time getting the core Bulletproof Diet infographic into a simple format so you will at least know what to eat. But even then, information overload is always a problem, especially when you’re dealing with family, job, and the other things that make life fun.

Change is hard enough, but it’s worse when you haven’t even started yet. It’s about to get a lot easier.

Another common problem is forgetting to implement the entire Bulletproof Diet. Maybe you’ve been able to get rid of grains, but you still haven’t been able to find grass-fed meat. A lot of people feel like they’ve failed if they don’t eat perfectly, so they decide to ditch the entire program – bad idea, especially since you don’t have to do it perfectly.

That’s why I’ve created a step-wise approach to getting started on the Bulletproof Diet.

The Bulletproof Diet is (as any healthful diet should be) an abrupt departure from the Standard American Diet (SAD). One of the most common questions I receive is whether or not the Bulletproof Diet will work if you discard some of the principles and consume non-organic vegetables, conventional meat, farmed seafood, etc. Basically, will a few of the Bulletproof Diet principles be enough to notice any difference?

The answer is always the same: “Yes – but the more you do, the better it works.” However, you’ll be healthier and stronger by making even the smallest changes.

For some people, it’s easier to use a check list when making dietary changes. This is the step-by-step guide to changing from a Standard American Diet to the Bulletproof Diet.

This list does not include exercise or other lifestyle recommendations, which can be found here.

These steps are cumulative; the farther you go, the more Bulletproof you’ll become. Start wherever you are and move forward. All these steps are built in to the Bulletproof Diet infographic too – sign up to get it via email – and stick it on your fridge so you can check how Bulletproof a food is.

14 Steps To Eating The Bulletproof Diet

1. Eliminate sugar (including fruit juices and sports drinks that contain HFCS, honey, and agave) .

2. Replace the sugar calories with healthy fats from the Bulletproof Diet such as grass-fed butter, ghee, and MCT or coconut oil.

3. Eliminate gluten in any shape or form. This includes bread, cereal, and pasta. Do not make the mistake of resorting to gluten free junk food, which can be almost as bad.

4. Remove grains, grain derived oils, and vegetable oils such as corn, soy, and canola. Also remove unstable polyunsaturated oils such as walnut, flax, and peanut oil.

5. Eliminate all synthetic additives, colorings, and flavorings. This includes aspartame, MSG, dyes, and artificial flavorings.

6. Eat significant amounts of pastured, grass-fed meat from big ruminant animals such as beef, lamb, and bison. Pair this with fish, eggs, and shellfish.

7. Eliminate legumes such as peanuts, beans, and lentils. If you must have your beans, soak, sprout (or ferment), and cook them.

8. Remove all processed, homogenized, and pasteurized dairy. High fat items can be pasteurized, but they should be grass-fed. Full fat, raw, whole dairy from grass-fed cows is okay for most people.

9. Switch to grass-fed meat and wild caught seafood. Eat pastured eggs and some pork, chickens, turkeys, and ducks.

10. Switch to organic fruits and vegetables. This is more important for some plants than others. See this site for details.

11. Cook your food gently, if at all. Incorporate water into your cooking whenever possible and use low temperatures. Do not use a microwave or fry.

12. Limit fruit consumption to 1-2 servings per day. Favor low fructose containing fruits like berries and lemons over watermelon and apples.

13. Add spices and other flavorings from the Bulletproof Diet. Favor herb based spices such as thyme and rosemary over powders. Use high quality ones, recently opened.

14. Enjoy your food.



Key Points

• If you have to have some form of cheat/junk/fake food, have it, and don’t act like you’re “off the wagon”. The more you venture from the Bulletproof Diet, the less you’ll benefit. The more you stick to the Bulletproof Diet, well, the more Bulletproof you’ll be. Small variations are fine and do not constitute failure.
• If you experience allergies, acne, or other negative effects after consuming dairy, switch to ghee as your only dairy, and eat coconut oil and animal fat.
• Do not count calories in an attempt to lose weight. Eat until satiety and then stop.
• Try not to snack. Bulletproof intermittent fasting is encouraged, though not mandatory.
• Limit fruit consumption to 1-2 servings per day to avoid high triglycerides. There are other reasons to limit fruit consumption, but it won’t kill you.
• High healthy fat intake is optimal. General ranges are 50-80 percent fat, 5-30 percent carbohydrate, and 10-30 percent protein.
• Eat as little polyunsaturated fat as you can. Supplement with fish oil or krill oil if you don’t consume fatty cold water fish like salmon on a weekly basis.
• If you can’t find grass-fed meat, choose the leanest cuts of grain-fed meat possible. If you can find grass-fed meat – choose the fattiest cuts possible.
• “I don’t have time” is not an excuse. Nourishing your mind and body is not optional. Anyone can make soft boiled eggs and Bulletproof Coffee.
• If you do this mostly right, you’ll set yourself up for a low inflammation, high performance, high energy lifestyle. If you don’t make time to take care of yourself now – you’ll have to make time to be sick later. Eat Bulletproof. Be Bulletproof.

[CzechCzar]

Not quite? I haven't started working out yet, but I have always heard that abs are almost completely dependant upon how low you can get your percentage of body fat...

5 minute abs?

[Zimobog]

That looks pretty cool, and definately compatible with all the wild meat and fish in my freezer.

[squeezyjohn]

It sounds so good - I wonder why everyone in the world isn't doing this?

What would be the ecological/agricultural impact of most of the people in the world changing their diet to something this different?

Is the world capable of producing bacon, eggs, grass-fed butter, grass-fed meat, coconut oil and freshly caught fish or fish derived oil in the same calorific quantities as legumes, fruit, honey, grains and vegetables currently just about sustaining humanity?

My guess is no ... in fact all the suggested things take far more resources for the world to produce and if we have to increase production of those to cope with demand for a new western diet - then we can produce less subsistence crops for the poorest people in the world who are already struggling.

So - are you saying that this perfect diet is only for the privileged few?

And the rest can go and jump?

Or am I missing something?

Or is it just another fad?

[Skell18]

Once you are on this it looks like you can never come off it, as you would just balloon in weight, also looks like it costs a fortune too! I have had butter in coffee too and sorry, its vile! Fair play if it works for you and you're happy with it, but I have dropped 1st in a month just by altering what I eat, this looks like a rehashed dukan or atkins diet, and your breath still reeks on this diet!

[Burnsey]

It sounds so good - I wonder why everyone in the world isn't doing this?

What would be the ecological/agricultural impact of most of the people in the world changing their diet to something this different?

Is the world capable of producing bacon, eggs, grass-fed butter, grass-fed meat, coconut oil and freshly caught fish or fish derived oil in the same calorific quantities as legumes, fruit, honey, grains and vegetables currently just about sustaining humanity?

My guess is no ... in fact all the suggested things take far more resources for the world to produce and if we have to increase production of those to cope with demand for a new western diet - then we can produce less subsistence crops for the poorest people in the world who are already struggling.

So - are you saying that this perfect diet is only for the privileged few?

And the rest can go and jump?

Or am I missing something?

Or is it just another fad?

Good ethical questions. I'm vegan, so I have already answered them for myself. Anybody know the long term results of a high animal fat diet? That is not a rhetorical question, I am curious about this. I lost 65 pounds of blubber in nine months on my vegan diet, my combined cholesterol is around 105, I sleep five hours a night, and I feel kick ass.......

[squeezyjohn]

Don't get me wrong ... I'm not as ethical as I could/should be - I do eat and love meat ... and it has to be good meat/dairy for me or it's not really worth it. That just means that I can't afford it every day and have to go veggie inbetween the treats!

And that's really where the nub of the "healthy diet" thing comes in ... here in the west we have unprecedented access to almost as much food of any type available to us 24/7 - but we still have to genetic urges to consume all the rare things in a natural hunter-gatherer lifestyle whenever we can get them. Those things are protein, sugar, fat and salt ... in the wild humans could normally find just about enough fibre, vitamins and calories to survive from constantly collecting plants - the protein, fat, sugar and salt came about very rarely naturally and our instinct is to just eat as much as possible whenever we can get them.

The only solution to a bad western diet would come from restrictions to our ability to get those 4 food groups on demand as we currently can from companies that prey on our natural instincts.

If people are able to control themselves in diet enough to go for this un-natural bulletproof diet then they can also commit to just choosing not to eat loads of fat, salt, protein and sugar. They can also commit to just not eat so much!

We are not meant to be bullet-proof! We are also not designed to live much beyond 40 ... anything else is a bonus!

[squeezyjohn]

I also hate to see fad diets where people on them get so excited by them that they're literally saying "how come you idiots are not doing the brilliant thing I'm doing"

Especially when they have not thought through the consequences of everyone taking them up on the offer!

There is no way this world could possibly cope with even just a fraction of the current population taking up this ridiculous diet - so these people better have a good answer to my questions before they talk so strongly in favour of everyone doing it!

[crullers]

There is nothing ridiculous about drastically reducing carbohydrates from your diet. We didn't have or need them as we evolved as a species, they are not a part of our natural diet, they make you feel like shit and make you sick. They are at the root of so many ailments, but they are widely available because it is cheap to produce high sugar, high carbohydrate foods. If you are genuinely interested, read the link I provided above, it contains a wealth of information and several links with further information. All I know is that I haven't felt better in years. I'll be damned if I am going to go back to eating spaghetti-o's and crullers because there may be a negative impact on agriculture. If everybody were to adapt to this diet, agriculture would adapt to the circumstances.