Quote Originally Posted by BloozieStrat View Post
This is interesting. So does your body actually go into ketosis during the 16 hour fast, despite eating carbs during the 'feeding' phase? I'm excited to see how my body reacts to training fasted. I really enjoy fasted cardio, so hopefully the same applies to lifting.
Definitely not! Sorry, I don't want to cause any confusion. Ketones are by-products that are produced when fatty acids are broken down for energy. Your body can still produce and utilize ketones without being in ketosis. Ketosis is just the 'full blown' version; i.e. you are running on a fat burning metabolism because glucose simply isn't present.

During a fast, our bodies will burn bodyfat (which will produce ketones) as well as dip into glycogen stores in both the liver and muscle. We will never get into full blown ketosis after only 16 hours, however that is not the design of IF, so that's a good thing.

Hope this helps.

Bloozie - good info bro, and I agree with just about all of it. Did you happen to catch Baseline's post about the same? http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...-a-single-meal