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Right after a few dirty carb ups over the last few weeks I have gained some fat but dont want to start a cut. So I was thinking of introducing a short fat flush period each week to see if it helps, I was planning on starting the flush friday morning through til saturday at around 6pm where I would then start my carb up until sunday night and back to MANS until friday. My idea is to have no workout on the friday and then my next workout after my high carb meal on saturday.

Do you think a short fat flush like this will help me slowly flush the fat over a few weeks? Of course I need to keep my carb ups clean from now on. Let me know if you've had good results with short fat flushes please.

Thanks

WHO AM I wrote:Right after a few dirty carb ups over the last few weeks I have gained some fat but dont want to start a cut. So I was thinking of introducing a short fat flush period each week to see if it helps, I was planning on starting the flush friday morning through til saturday at around 6pm where I would then start my carb up until sunday night and back to MANS until friday. My idea is to have no workout on the friday and then my next workout after my high carb meal on saturday.

Do you think a short fat flush like this will help me slowly flush the fat over a few weeks? Of course I need to keep my carb ups clean from now on. Let me know if you've had good results with short fat flushes please.

Thanks

I've done two 2-day fat flushes that weren't even very strict after my last two carb-ups, and I lost about 4-5 pounds each time. So, just enough to get rid of the bloat from the carb up. Definitely worth a try!

I thought I'd start it early so I'm doing a not so strict version today and tommorrow it will be the start of the proper one. It's great how you dont feel the hunger on low carb when trying to cut fat, thats one thing I love about it.

WHO AM I wrote:I thought I'd start it early so I'm doing a not so strict version today and tommorrow it will be the start of the proper one. It's great how you dont feel the hunger on low carb when trying to cut fat, thats one thing I love about it.

I don't find that to be the case for myself, but if it works for you, Mazel Tov! I never managed one day of perfect strictness, but I was close enough and didn't let some artificial standard for perfection derail me from doing my best. Hope that works for you too!

A fat flush is great for getting your body back on track after a dirty carb-up! For me, the caloric deficit of a fat fast is around 2,000 calories per day; a one-day fat fast is usually all that's required to get me back on-track if I really blow it on my carb-up day (or the day after).

Now if only I'd do better at sticking to my plan this week. I saw 209 last Saturday morning; I wanna see a number below 210 again, dammit!

--Matt B.

What is a FAt Flush ?

A fat flush is a concept from Total Six-Pack Abs. Google "Fat Fast Atkins" and you'll get the general idea. Mark modifies it just a little bit to suit a bodybuilding lifestyle, but it's very similar.

Regards,
Matt B.

Thanks mate

I'm thinking I should go ahead and buy Total Six-Pack Abs. There are a ton of references to it in the forum and it's a bit irritating because I want more information. I hadn't planned to buy it until I got my body fat down in the teens but think I'll just get it now so that I have it. I feel like I'm not one of the "cool kids" yet.

I think it's worth it because it changed my mind-set about how to lose fat. I did great following the program my first three months; I've struggled on the new version of TSPA because I keep blowing up on my carb-ups (and the day after, and the day after, and sometimes the day after that...). I also haven't been as diligent on the exercise front, or in meeting my daily protein goals.

It was worth $30 when I bought it. The fact is, all the knowledge within it can be found elsewhere, but it was worth my $30 (at the time) to have it nailed down in a concise, cohesive plan to achieve my goals. According to my calculations, I was somewhere around 40% body fat when I started at well over 250 lbs(way higher than I thought at the time, those bloody electronic meters can be useless if you're far from normal...). Today I'm close to 210, just ten pounds away from my original goal!

I'm not gonna have a six-pack at 210, though. With a lean body mass hovering around 165, the actual number would be somewhere closer to (165 / 0.9 = 183.3) 184 lbs or so. Unless I pack on more muscle

--Matt B.