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JMB:

--- Quote from: shmokes on July 13, 2011, 10:59:50 am ---
Also, I've been doing it, and I feel great.  My fat is disappearing quickly, and I go through the entire day with lots of energy and alertness, entirely free of periods of sudden sleepiness. 

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What does your typical day work out to be like for food intake? Nothing until a big meal later in the day?

shateredsoul1979:
Well my brother just realized one day that he was eating past the point he was full, ever since then he stopped eating once he felt full. He lost weight, and changed his eating habits, but now it's something that comes natural for him... dunno if I'd count that as a diet. Any change in the way you eat is too broad of a definition me thinks, I think of a diet as a temporary change or a change to lose weight on purpose or due to medical reasons.


--- Quote from: shmokes on July 13, 2011, 10:59:50 am ---
--- Quote from: shateredsoul1979 on July 12, 2011, 11:14:30 pm ---I don't believe in special diets.. really It's about eating more veggies and fruits than usual and reducing portions overall.

Of the diets the paleo diet aka caveman diet seems doable (lots of veggies and fruit, very little carbs), and the zone is really annoying (weighing your food? really!?)



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Any time you change you make an ongoing change to your diet that deviates from your normal eating habits, or from the way you want to eat, I'm pretty sure you're on a diet.  And considering the rate of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc., in America (and elsewhere), I'd say dieting is kind of an imperative right now.

The Warrior Diet, which has a stupid name, is based on the premise that evolutionarily, we are not meant to eat multiple meals per day.  As hunters/gatherers, we used to spend the day hunting and only had a big meal at the end of the day once we were safe from harm.  Wild animals behave in generally the same way.  But when captured and put in captivity they will eat and eat and eat until they get fat, sick and die.  So zookeepers have to ration their food and manage their diets to protect them from themselves.  The warrior diet is based on the premise that humans are, in a sense, in captivity.  We no longer have to hunt for our food.  We're not in danger.  We live sedentary lifestyles.  And we behave, dietarily speaking, as if we are living in captivity.

I won't say that I buy it lock, stock, and barrel (I simply don't know enough about us), but it is intuitively appealing at least.  It's an interesting and plausible idea.  Also, I've been doing it, and I feel great.  My fat is disappearing quickly, and I go through the entire day with lots of energy and alertness, entirely free of periods of sudden sleepiness. 

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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on July 13, 2011, 10:59:50 am ---The Warrior Diet, which has a stupid name, is based on the premise that evolutionarily, we are not meant to eat multiple meals per day.  As hunters/gatherers, we used to spend the day hunting and only had a big meal at the end of the day once we were safe from harm. 

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As hunters/gatherers we used to have a lifespan of 35 years.  As part time hunters/gatherers we had a lifespan of 50 years.  Factoring out truly advanced medical care what would the average lifespan be now?  60?  We evolved away from many things because we found better ways to do them.

CCM:
Eating one big meal a day pretty much goes against anything I've ever read about proper eating/nutrition.

Donkbaca:
The stupid thing is that all of these diets/nutritional guidelines talk about miniscule differences that don't matter in the real world.  There are a hundred different diets that claim to work in a hundred different ways, in reality they all are succesful for the same reason: they cut your intake of calories.  What ever rules you set up that help you do that is what will work best for you.  Low carb works because most high-carb foods are calorically dense and not very filling all these other diets are trying to accomplish the same thing, wheter its spreading out smaller meals throughout the day or whatever other trick, its all the same principle - get more active and eat less junk

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