Aloha,

I just finished a couple of “free” weeks (no controlled diet plan).

This week, I’m doing another grape fast to see if the results are consistent.  The rules:

1. Drink as much water as desired.  Can have some lemon or lime juice in the water.

2. Eat as many seeded red grapes as desired.  Eat the seeds.  Chew them up.

So far, this has been the most effective weekly plan in the entire list of weekly plans that I’ve tested (including a straight water fast).  We’ll see if the results are consistent.

Of course, for nutrition reasons, I’ll probably follow it up with a meat plan or something far away from a fast next week.

-James D. Brausch

I’m cutting the meat only week short a bit.  As you can see, it worked out just as well as it has in the past.  It’s a good one week plan when doing the swap diet.

We’re traveling next week and wanted to get a full week of a new eating plan in.

This one is pretty radical… rather more like a fast.

The only things allowed are grapes and water.  We have a wide variety of grapes available here in Costa Rica, so I’ll be sampling them all.

-James D. Brausch

Aloha,

I finished up with the raw vegan eating plan for a week.  The weight loss was quite remarkable and I felt very good the entire week.

This week’s eating plan is meat and eggs only.  I will be using seasonings, but 98% of what I’ll be eating this week will be meat and eggs.

This is a repeat eating plan that worked well the last time, but to see the results required a scale that showed body fat %.  I don’t have one available here in Costa Rica, so we’ll just be monitoring weight and possibly blood pressure since I have an appointment to get blood and urine chemistry results this week.

The other reason for a meat only plan this week is that it is so diametrically opposite to last week’s plan.  That has two major advantages:

1. I can make up for any nutrients I missed last week (if any other than B12).

2. It plays on the entire swap diet plan of constantly keeping your body adjusting so that it never gets used to a diet plan and weight loss never levels off.

We’ll see how it goes.

-James D. Brausch