The Fat Fast is detailed in the 2002 Edition of the Atkins Diet book.  It's largely been disowned by the low-carb community on line, so you might not find much about it.  I can scan and put up the pages from the book if anyone is interested.

Long Story Short:  It's five meals of 200 calories a piece with 75-90% of it being fat.

I also have some stuff I scanned about the diet Broda Barnes fed the obese.  He allowed a breakfast of bacon, eggs and a peeled orange.  The rest of the day an eggnog like beverage made of whipping cream, raw eggs (1 egg per pint of cream), spices and non-caloric sweetener was to be consumed.  Of this he says:

"Usually a quart of the formula would be enough for a day.  Most people consumed to more than 2/3rds of it.  It can be carried to work in a thermos bottle.  This may not seem very appetizing, but it's cheaper and more practical than hospitalization.  Ketone bodies appear in the urine within 24 hours and the appetite is markedly depressed"

Most people can only stand this for a few days, so he then transitions people to a high-fat diet of actual food.  It's the same breakfast, then lunch and dinner each consist of the following:  serving of meat, fish or fowl, vegetable with butter, salad with an "abundance" of dressing, one serving of fruit, one glass of milk, tea or coffee).

-Nicole



On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Ray Audette wrote:

> Dr. Atkins always recommended what he called a fat-fast for overcoming 
> weight-loss stalls.  By this he meant over 80% of calories from fat ( a modified 
> Kekwick diet).
> 
> Pemmican works well for this.
> 
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