JRK- It’s going pretty well. It does feel like my new sort of IF “weapon.” I can do it for a day or two, and this how Mark Bell said he uses it, too. Sounds like Cari did something similar (I remember the Lemonade Diet, I think I tried it and went half a day or so). It’s great after a sort of “non-peaty” meal, like if you go out to a restaurant, which happens more frequently now that I live closer to my family.
While I like the IF nature of this, I completely agree that you wouldn’t want to go too long on low fat and/or low protein. I do think that holding those macros down for a day or two (or possibly longer, for some people), drive the benefits. By lowering things like serum BCAAs, inflammatory aminos, FFAs, and oxylipins and other acetylated fats, I think that can help improve metabolism, both in the short and long term. I am finding that if I try to push the “Sugar Fast” too much, I start getting to hungry for something other just fruit or candy.
Funny, now Cole Robinson has dropped the “Sugar Diet,” and is now all about low fat, low fat. I did low fat for about 2 months last year, and did see some interesting benefits, but was getting bored with it after two months. I always had at least one “cheat meal” a week, to help the gallbladder turn over, but all the people on the old RPF that did super low fat seemed to note that it was somewhere between 6-12 months when problems started to show up. I wasn’t even going to tempt that time frame.
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