Eating One Meal Per Day to Get Ripped? I Know it Sounds Crazy!
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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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