Eating One Meal Per Day to Get Ripped? I Know it Sounds Crazy!
warrior diet, six meals per day, one meal per day, ori hofmelker, lose body fat
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Have you ever heard of the Warrior Diet? It is a diet based around the idea of eating only one meal per day and eating that meal at night. Yeah I know it MUCH different than the advice you normally hear about eating 6 meals per day. Believe it or not it actually works really well.
Here is a link to the Warrior Diet Website to do a bit of exploring. This site is dedicated to selling his book, but it gives you a really good outline of why the diet works.
http://warriordiet.com/
Won't Eating One Meal a Day Slow Your Metabolism?
I know you have been told that you need to eat every few hours or your metabolism will slow down. This is the whole basis of why people have been telling us for years to eat 6 meals per day. This is almost a fitness "commandment". Here is the deal...what they are finding is that metabolism slows over a period of days or even weeks. Your metabolism will slow if your daily calories are too low over a period of 7-14 days (not an exact number). Your body will not adjust it's metabolism over a period of hours.
What if You Ate the Same Amount of Daily Calories, But Just in One Meal?
You would think that eating a lot of calories at once would cause you to put on weight. I always thought that your body would only be able to absorb a certain amount of nutrients and the rest would then be stored as body fat. That certainly makes sense...right? Well what is interesting is that after a period of fasting, your body increases its ability to absorb nutrients. Also...your body increases its production of HGH (your body's natural fat burning hormone) in a fasted state. This one-two combo means that you will burn fat in this fasted state as well as create an anabolic environment once you eat. This way of eating is called "Intermittent Fasting" and believe it or not there are a lot of people using this as a way to get ripped while preserving muscle mass.
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on 3/6/2008
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Is Diet The Key to Burning Body Fat or Is Exercise the Answer
diet, exercise, cardio, hiit, lose body fat
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So when it comes to losing unwanted body fat, is diet or exercise more important? If you were to ask me 20 years ago, I would have told you that exercise was the key to a sexy body. While exercise is important, I think the real key to burning body fat and looking great is the result of a clean diet. If people ate properly, there would be many more toned people in gyms all over the world.
The Best "One Two" Weight Loss Combo is Both Diet and Exercise
Everyone knows that exercise along with a good diet is a great approach to losing weight. The challenge with exercising is that often times life gets busy. There isn't always time to exercise, but you always have time for a proper diet. My suggestion is to keep your diet clean at all times, and exercise when time allows.
"You Can't Out-Exercise a Big Mac"
A Big Mac has 540 calories. Do you realize how much exercising it takes to burn those calories? Well about an hour on the elliptical trainer at a moderate pace would do the trick! So after an hour of boring cardio, you are back to square one. You probably won't lose weight at all especially if you added the fries and soft drink. Large fries would be an extra 570 calories and a large non-diet soft drink would be an extra 310 calories. So how much exercise would you have to do to burn 1,400+ calories? Let's not even go there!
It Is Much Easier to Create A Large Calorie Deficit With a Clean Diet
A simple approach to losing weight is to create a daily calorie deficit. Basically, the idea is for your body to use more calories each day than what you consume in food calories. So, there are two ways to create this deficit; either consume less calories or burn more through exercising. Each pound of fat on your body is 3,500 calories. So to lose 2 pounds per week, you need to create a weekly calorie deficit of 7,000or a daily calorie deficit of 1,000. In my opinion it is much easier to create this calor... read entire entry
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on 2/26/2008
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Drink Beer, Have Fun, Enjoy Life, and Still Have a Rockin Bod!
keg stand, splurge, fitness tip, diet tip, junk food
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I have been torn apart on a few of the major diet and weight loss forums for putting a picture of myself on the front page drinking a beer. No other fitness site that I know of has a picture of the author drinking a beer. I have been called a bad "fitness role model" along with a few other things. I put that picture up for a reason. I'm just like everyone else in that I enjoy stuff that is supposedly "bad" for me.
I Firmly Believe that You Can be Extremely Fit in The Context of a Fun Life
I like beer. Let me rephrase that...I like beer a lot! I fell in love with the flavor of beer in my fraternity back in college. I drink it WAY less than I did back then, but I still crack open 1-2 beers a couple of nights a week. You may or may not like beer. Maybe you enjoy root beer floats, mixed drinks, banana cream pie, meat-lovers pizza, etc. I am here to tell you that you can have anything you want if you plan your diet properly.
People That Don't Splurge Are Dull!
It is crazy to diet while on vacation or trying to eat healthy during a family picnic. There are times when you should let yourself go and just "go for it". Seriously...see how much you can eat. You will feel kind of like a rebel when you do this. This past Christmas, I tried to see if I could eat 3 full plates of food...and then two plates of dessert. I probably ate 8,000+ calories in one meal...it was a blast!
When You Splurge, You Remember How Sluggish It Makes You Feel
I think eating a bunch of high calorie food is a bit like aversion therapy. You will feel extremely tired afterward with low energy. It will be a great reminder about how much better you feel when you eat healthy. The following days and weeks following a "pig out session", you will find it easy to remain on a strict diet.
So Don't Be Afraid to do the Occasional "Keg Stand"...Have Fun...Go Skinny Dipping (nothing to do with this post...I'm just a big fan... read entire entry
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on 2/8/2008
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