Eat Anything You Want and Lose Weight Its Possible
Before one of his friends was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2013, London Native Paul White had been battling with being overweight. He went from 200 pounds to 372 pounds in a period of 20 years, thanks to his love for American food. White decided to make American his permanent residence after meeting the love of his life, an American woman. His initial plan was to stay one month in New York for a brief Wall Street stint.
Around the time of his friend’s diagnosis, White’s curiosity was piqued when he read about The Every Other Day Diet (EODD). It was a simple diet that limited you to a total of 500 calories (either throughout the day or as a single meal) on Diet Day and let you eat whatever you want on Feast Day. After dieting on and off for 60 days, White shed off 20 pounds. He’s 175 pounds lighter today.
The reason many other calorie-restriction diets fail often is the dieters languish in starvation for the rest of the evening after exhausting their calories by mid-afternoon. EODD words because people are only deprived of calories for a brief 24-hour period.
White had always been active, having played rugby in his university days. It’s work that slowed him down. So he’s been working out as he lost weight. His workout routine includes 600 push-ups and 1000 crunches in the morning, strength training, and three to five runs weekly.
His goals vary. Last year he aimed for a marathon time of under four hours. According to him, marathon training requires additional calories on Diet Days but he still stuck to his under-200 target weight.
Intermittent fasting need not be excruciating as long as you do it properly. To get the best results from your 500-calorie day, developer and co-author of the diet Krista Varady, Ph.D., suggests the following tips.
- Drink lots of water to avoid dehydration and headaches. Don’t rely only of food for your daily liquid consumption.
- Suppress hunger on fast days by eating 50 grams of protein.
- Workouts leave you hungry so save enough post-exercise calories on fast days. It is important not to exceed your 500-calorie limit.
- Remember, week one is the hardest because your body takes around seven days to adjust to the diet. Your body will fight you before it gets with the program.
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