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.