Could you outline the benefits of fasting for me to save me spending money on another book?
Ok, here's what the blurb on the back says (in a nutshell):
"You have a 'skinny gene' and now there's a way to activate it, with a simple & effective technique called alternate-day dieting: eat normal portions of your favourite foods one day, and diet the next. You never feel deprived, and you don't suffer from diet fatique, the reason most diets fail.
Every other day calorie restriction works because it accepts the compulsion that leads us to cheat on diets that eliminate our favourite foods and require constant calorie restriction. The alternate day diet makes overall calorie reduction much easier, and easier to sustain over time.
Most important, intermittent dieting triggers the 'skinny gene' (SIRT1) and prevents fat storage inside the cells, where it does the most damage. SIRT1 also improves fat metabolism and slows the aging process. At the cellular level, activating SIRT1 may reduce free-radical damage, a major cause of most chronic disease, and alleviate or eliminate symptoms of asthma, allergies, arthiritis, colds and infections, and peridontal disease".
The website is nearly as informative as the book actually, so might be worth a check
www.AlternateDayDiet.com
On there you can use the calculator to work out what calries he would recommend on an up day or down day, but what I am thinking is that for me, unless I was combining low carb, sensible eating, paleo (ish) and fasting it wouldn't work. This is because I feel that if I were given that free reign of eating whatever I wanted on the up day, it really wouldn't be helping me to educate myself in eating a sensible amount and type of food. I like the thought that, even if low carb wasn't seeing me lose too many pounds, but I was gaining the health benefits that I know I do when low carbing, then the 2 fasting days a week at sub 500 cals would actually even out my weekly calorie intake quite nicely (not to mention releasing the SIRT1 and slowing the anti aging process - HURRAH!).
Also read an interesting article here
The metabolism miracle: The revolutionary diet that can help you stay slim forever | Mail Online which includes some nice low carb recipes at the end.
If you fancy the Alternate Day book just shout and I'll send mine down to you.
