Pro's and con's of the Warrior diet

[bigdamray]

I went ahead and went full out on this and only ate one meal per day. I liked the book and I liked the theory but the actuality of it did not impress me.

Pro's:

1) I was more awake, responsive and alert during waking, fasting hours.
2) It was very convenient because I didn't have to pack any food for work.
3) I enjoyed eating untill I was full in the evening
3) I enjoyed the control over the hunger pains during the day

Con's:

1) School starts Monday and I won't be home in the evening to prepare and eat a huge meal.
2) This diet encourages overeating, so for someone that has an eating disorder it is too easy to binge. I binged twice last week and that's something that I hadn't done in 3 months prior.
3) I did feel like that my metabolism slowed down from eating only once a day.
4) I also found it difficult to take my supplements the way I was suppose to because I am used to taking them before or with my meals.

Conclusion:

I'm going back to the anafit method. I will stick with all natural, all organic foods, no artificial sweeteners or anything of that sort. I will stick with easily digested protein during the day and save the chicken or fish for my last meal. I hope this analysis helps someone but to be fair, I really didn't do it long enough to give it a fair shake. It just wasn't working well for me.

[Ulter]

[Beverly McD.]

Originally Posted by Ulter

Ditto!

[strawberryriddick]

Originally Posted by bigdamray

I went ahead and went full out on this and only ate one meal per day. I liked the book and I liked the theory but the actuality of it did not impress me.

Pro's:

1) I was more awake, responsive and alert during waking, fasting hours.
2) It was very convenient because I didn't have to pack any food for work.
3) I enjoyed eating untill I was full in the evening
3) I enjoyed the control over the hunger pains during the day

Con's:

1) School starts Monday and I won't be home in the evening to prepare and eat a huge meal.
2) This diet encourages overeating, so for someone that has an eating disorder it is too easy to binge. I binged twice last week and that's something that I hadn't done in 3 months prior.
3) I did feel like that my metabolism slowed down from eating only once a day.
4) I also found it difficult to take my supplements the way I was suppose to because I am used to taking them before or with my meals.

Conclusion:

I'm going back to the anafit method. I will stick with all natural, all organic foods, no artificial sweeteners or anything of that sort. I will stick with easily digested protein during the day and save the chicken or fish for my last meal. I hope this analysis helps someone but to be fair, I really didn't do it long enough to give it a fair shake. It just wasn't working well for me.

Wow, eating once a day? That's pretty crazy. Stick with the anafit one. My mom went on the warrior diet to help her lose weight, but I didn't think it was all that healthy for her to start. Your anafit one sounds much better.

[Biter]

Bumping this up to share my experience with this diet. I started it at the middle of August, and for 3 weeks interspersed the Anti-Estrogenic Diet in, also by Hofmekler.

My experience was a bit different than Ray's. While I did share the energy, wow did my strength just plummet. Granted I have been injured, but I tried some lifting where I avoided my shoulders and wow, my strength was nearly cut in half.

The good part was the convenience as Ray said. It was easy eating kefir, yogurt, etc.. although the organic part that is pushed really made it expensive. I also felt I gained great control over the hunger too.

I experienced a lot of the issues Ray did with overeating on the diet, right off the bat. The good part was that I eventually got control over that and I felt like I didn't want to go overboard after awhile. I ate a good portion of food at night, but did so slowly and really gauged my hunger.

The best part, overall, was the Anti-Estrogenic Diet. While I'm hesitant to recommend the Warrior Diet, I have to give a huge thumbs up to the AED. This guy is on to something here. It's overall the same diet as the Warrior Diet, but with a few major change ups in the food choices. The overall idea is to rid the body of synthetic estrogens, while cleansing the liver out.

I'm not sure how it works. I'll say this though, my metabolism kicked up a notch. I started dropping a bit more stubborn fat. Something I did during it was needed though, for sure - I felt better afterward.

I added in some pills with Milk Thistle too, as well as a cup of unsweetened cranberry juice a day. It was only 3 weeks too - it's not meant to be a full time diet.

Overall, the Warrior Diet can be a nice change of pace, but I wouldn't marry myself to it. And the AED is a nice thing to try for sure, but isn't long term.

[bigdamray]

Thanx for the update bro!!