On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Todd Moody wrote: > The basic idea is to overfeed for about two weeks, then restrict > calories for two weeks, thus doing a rapid cycle "yo-yo" diet. > The theory is that during the anabolic phase you gain muscle and > fat, and during the catabolic phase you lose muscle and fat. But > by limiting each phase to two weeks the net result is gaining a > bit more muscle than you lose and losing a bit more fat than you > gain. The cumulative result after a series of cycles is an > increase in one's muscle:fat ratio. > Fred Hatfield calls this the zigzag diet, details of which can be found on his site at :- http://www.drsquat.com/articles/zig.htm This is not a paleo link, however. Andy.