I've been doing this thing for more than two weeks now. The first week I was dropping fat about a pound a day. Once I got to a certain body fat percentage, it seems like my body has adjusted to my eating style. I still eat whatever I want in the evenings (I've been following the carb/protein alternation plan) as much as I want. My weight naturally goes up a little the day after I carb-0-load, but it always goes back down the day after I eat more protein. It seems as if I've hit a plateau... I'm going up and down about 1.5-2 lbs a every other day. The good thing about this is, once I get to where I want to be, maintaining won't be hard. But since I'm not where I want to be yet, I need to make some changes to knock out that last 1-2 percent body fat.
I think carb loading is counterproductive if you want to lose fat. (at least the way I do it... pizza and cookies anybody?) So for a little while anyways, I'm going to try and make my meals higher protein (even if I do eat spaghetti or something, I'll have a protein shake or something with it). Also I want to improve the quality of my meals too.
Hopefully by making these changes I can lose those last few pounds of fat around my back/waist area. Once I get to where I want to be I'm confident that I can maintain.
Before I started this diet I at zero vegetables or fruits. I'd eat granola cereal in the morning and feel pretty healthy about myself. I went out to lunch almost every day. It wasn't until like two weeks before I started the Warrior Diet that I started even counting my calories.
My initial reason for starting this eating pattern was to loose fat. Now I would only call fat loss a side effect, the best thing about the warrior diet is increase in energy, without a doubt.
I'm not a big fan of Ori (the author of the warrior diet) but I will say he introduced me to the idea of intermittent fasting (which has been around long before he wrote the book) I think its the fact that he charges $300 for 30 min of talking to him on the phone about your diet. Some people think he's god or something on the forums, its pathetic really.
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it sounds like you and I have come to similar conclusions:
1. Focus on quality diet
2. Energy and focus is best part of the diet.
3. Eating a ton at night is fun too.
4. Ori isn't God.
I don't think there's anyway to lose that last bit of fat by eating crap. You need a quality diet that probably limits processed carbs.
I think you're right. My plan of attack for this week is alternating days of eating no carbs, and eating a little bit of carbs. Tonight I'm going to try having a salad/steak/nuts or something like that.
While the warrior diet is somewhat new to me, IF isn't - I own brad pilon's Eat Stop Eat and have messed around with IF from that.
I avoided buying the Warrior Diet book b/c my limited experience with the author hasn't left me terribly impressed. He seems a bit combative and I find his explanations a bit confusing and even contradictory at times. I tried listening to this "radio show" and it was a lot of meandering. I didn't find the video of the fox news interview (posted recently on his blog) terribly flattering either.
At any rate, I ended up buying his Warrior Diet book b/c of some of the good things said on fitnessblackbook.com about the diet and b/c I felt it was the right thing to do since I was using some of his ideas (even if I don't find his reasoning terribly convincing). I do think IF is a solid approach though, mostly from reading Eat Stop Eat which does a great job of presenting the benefits of IF for the average joe.
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