Re: Warrior Diet HELP/TIPS

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On 7/14/05, e Sheehan <e.Sheehan@...> wrote:

> Hey guys...I looked up " Warrior Diet " on onibasu lastnight and it came up

> with just under 1700 messages!!! And looking thru several, they are mostly

> not even much to do with that diet, no rules, tips, advise, etc.

Are you sure? The WD was discussed an *awful lot* on this forum and

I'm really not surprised at the number it turned up. I'd expect a lot

of the discussion to be WD tangents, but you'd probably have to read

the threads to see how they're all related.

> Or is anyone willing to tell me whatever they can/want about it. I'm

> thinking that it would be a way to save $ so I can buy better quality food

> for that one meal. Is this a realistic thought?

The idea of the WD isn't to eat less food. It's to change the eating patterns.

The crux of the WD is this:

- eat raw foods during the day, and foods that don't stimulate much

insulin, and eat less than you usually would

- set aside a 4-hour block in the evening for overeating. eat

whatever healthy foods you want, and eat at a leisurely pace, but also

make sure you are truly " overeating " and " feasting. " if you want to

lose weight, Ori says eat your starches last of everything.

For the undereating phase, Ori's interpretation of his own principles

is to focus on raw fruits and vegetables. My interpretation of his

principles is to consume the majority of your undereating phase

calories from virgin coconut oil, consume small snacks of raw animal

protein foods (excluding milk) such as egg yolks or steak, and to get

your water-soluble vitamins from low-carb fermented veggies such as

raw sauerkraut.

> I also searched on google and mostly what came up was their site (not much

> info), and a bunch of " reviews " of it...there's NO sites out there by ppl on

> the diet that has help on it. That kinda worries me.

The main site is www.warriordiet.com.

> Here's me: quite a few health problems I'm trying to help/cure. Only have

> about 10-15 more lbs MAX to lose...just need to tone what I have left (which

> is hard with my health problems).

I have no idea what you mean by " tone. " If I understand the way the

word is typically misused, it means to increase muscle definition or

something, which is really fat loss. Muscle tone in actuality is a

transient characteristic that one cannot acquire on a semi-permanent

basis. You cann't " get toned " the way you can build muscle or lose

fat. " Tone " is just the contraction of your muscle at the moment.

When you exercise, you're going to be more " toned " for 20 minutes

afterward, maybe an hour, depending on the workout, etc. Right now

you have a good amount of " tone " so your, say, liver doesn't fall

down.

If you want to lose fat, the addition of coconut oil to your diet

might help speed up your metabolism (I'm not sure what you're eating

at the moment.) Lifting weights should help, especially focusing on

the larger muscle groups-- exercises like freeweight squat, deadlift,

bench press. Kettlebells are a super-power fat-melting tool, I find,

but if you have health problems that make exercise difficult they're

probably too intense for you right now.

I don't know if the WD is good for fat loss or not... maybe when more

people answer the questions I posted we'll get a better idea.

Chris

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> Hey guys...I looked up " Warrior Diet " on onibasu lastnight and it

> came up with just under 1700 messages!!!

:

> Or is anyone willing to tell me whatever they can/want about it.

> I'm thinking that it would be a way to save $ so I can buy better

> quality food for that one meal. Is this a realistic thought?

Kris,

Basic Warrior Diet Rules:

- Under-eating phase of the day:

duration 20+ hours

food eaten (if any) should be low carbohydrate

If you're hungry, you should eat. The under-eating phase shouldn't

be a fast unless that's what your body wants.

- Over-eating phase of the day:

duration max. 4 hours

AT THE END OF THE DAY

eat high protein/fat foods before high carb/high glycemic index

foods

eat enough to be truly satisfied. If you don't, this is just another

very low calorie diet (VLCD).

Some interesting links that support this kind of eating schedule:

frequent eating contributes to tooth decay...

<http://www.lakshdeep.com/diet.htm>

intermittent fasting (alternate day fasting) in mice results in

" increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity,

and increased life span " INDEPENDENT of calorie intake or change in

body weight.

<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/1035720100v1>

<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/5/2911>

meal-skipping in mice improves glucose metabolism and may provide

protection against diabetes...

<http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease

s/PR20030428MealSkipping.

htm>

Hope this gives you the basic info. that you need.

Jan

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Thanks a bunch for the replies guys. I don't think that diet is for

me. But who knows. Nothing else has made me feel much healthier.

It's so different that maybe it would worked. But it really seems

like a more athlete type diet. And all I meant by tone was

to even out the fatness, the outer layer fatness. Excuse me for not

using the right terms, I wasn't being technical, just trying to

describe where I'm at with my weight.

Kris

> The crux of the WD is this:

>

> - eat raw foods during the day, and foods that don't stimulate much

> insulin, and eat less than you usually would

> - set aside a 4-hour block in the evening for overeating. eat

> whatever healthy foods you want, and eat at a leisurely pace, but

also

> make sure you are truly " overeating " and " feasting. " if you want

to

> lose weight, Ori says eat your starches last of everything.

> > I have no idea what you mean by " tone. " If I understand the way

the

> word is typically misused, it means to increase muscle definition

or

> something, which is really fat loss. Muscle tone in actuality is a

> transient characteristic that one cannot acquire on a semi-

permanent

> basis. You cann't " get toned " the way you can build muscle or lose

> fat. " Tone " is just the contraction of your muscle at the moment.

> When you exercise, you're going to be more " toned " for 20 minutes

> afterward, maybe an hour, depending on the workout, etc. Right now

> you have a good amount of " tone " so your, say, liver doesn't fall

> down.

> > Chris