Candi Frazier on Targeting Visceral Fat with Diet and Fasting

Candi Frazier's Daily Eating Habits

• 🍽️ Candi typically eats twice a day, aiming for around 200 grams of protein daily, split between her meals.
• 🥩 Her meals primarily consist of meat, including ground bison, steaks, chicken, and various fish like cod and salmon.
• 🧀 She avoids most dairy, including cheese, as it makes her store fat and is highly addictive.
• 🥦 Vegetables are consumed only occasionally (2-3 times a month), as they negatively impact her gut health.

The Role of Fermented Foods

• 🦠 Candi incorporates fermented foods into her diet, following Dr. Sean's advice to eat them with meat in the same bite.
• 🔬 She emphasizes diversity in fermented foods, aiming for small amounts of 8-9 different types with each meal.
• 🚫 She avoids most cheeses, even fermented ones, due to digestive issues and their tendency to promote fat storage.
• 💧 Consuming fermented foods and their brines is seen as a way to introduce beneficial microbes and combat exposure to potentially harmful ones.

Fasting and Insulin Management

• ⏰ Candi eats her meals in the first half of the day to align with insulin sensitivity, which is higher during daylight hours.
• 😴 Eating earlier allows the body to focus on restoration and cleanup at night, aided by melatonin, rather than digestion.
• ⚡ She highlights that moving during the day activates insulin, improving its processing of glucose and insulin.
• 💧 She drinks approximately a gallon of spring water daily, especially when consuming a lot of meat, which can be dehydrating.
• ☕ Coffee is avoided due to its dehydrating and toxic nature, requiring more water intake.

Extended Fasting Protocols

• ⏳ Candi follows a protocol inspired by Dr. Sean, including 48-hour water fasts weekly.
• 🔄 Currently, she is participating in a challenge with members who have completed her program, focusing on OMAD (One Meal A Day) between 11 AM and 1 PM.
• 📊 This experimentation with fasting protocols aims to understand individual body responses and optimize for zero visceral fat.
• 💪 She notes that achieving zero visceral fat is difficult, but significant reduction leads to incredible body transformations and improved health indicators.

Assessing and Targeting Visceral Fat

• 📊 An MRI is considered the most accurate method for assessing visceral fat levels, more so than DEXA scans.
• 🎯 The primary strategy for reducing visceral fat is achieving ketosis and managing insulin levels.
• ❤️ Heart fat is the first to be lost, followed by deeper visceral fat, which is crucial as it suffocates organs.
• ✨ Visible fat reduction, improved facial features, and reduced inflammation are indicators of successful visceral fat loss.