Hi all.
Was wondering if a full fruit day (just fruit salad five times a day)every third day and a vegetable day on the fourth could boost my weight loss plan. Of course, on lifting days that coincide with the fruit or veg days I will pay attention to pre and post workout foods. (nuts and eggs for proteins)

Any thoughts? :confused:


(I have dropped about 5 kilos of fat in the past six weeks with increasing my meal numbers and working out (I am currently 90 kilos, and 42 years old) but would like to ramp up the weight loss!)

That sounds like a recipe for muscle loss.

If you want to lose fat faster:

1) make your diet more optimal
2) add cardio

My thoughts are that you should be eating somewhere around a half-pound (quarter-kilo) of fruits and vegetables every day. Eating all fruit all day one day and all vegetables all day one day sounds a little extreme to me unless you're doing something like carbohydrate cycling.

Hi all.
Was wondering if a full fruit day (just fruit salad five times a day)every third day and a vegetable day on the fourth could boost my weight loss plan. Is this an attempt to lower calories on those days, or for some other reason?

I don't think that all fruit days or all vegetable days would be specifically helpful for body recomposition, but on the other hand, I don't think it will hurt your progress, if you have other reasons for wanting to do it.

There's a post about intermittent fasting on the forums that might a better idea than what you're trying to accomplish, but I'm not too sure.

If you're curious about temporary vegetarian lifestyles, you might be interested in the blog of Steve Pavlina, who did a 30 day raw food diet (http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/02/raw-food-diet/) and improved his body composition, but that was more like an unexpected side effect (and not necessarily because of the macronutrient change) rather than a specific goal of his.