Does anyone follow this way of eating?
My husband is a great athlete, and has always been in shape biking, swimming, running, and weight lifting for as long as I have known him. He alway followed a diet like Body-For-Life. He loves Bill Phillips, and believed in everything Bill believed in.
Now he come upon a knew way of eating, called the warrior deit. He does not do it to lose weight, as he is already very cut, lean, and healthy. He has been doing it for several months now, and he has gotten very cut, and he looks great. He feels even more energetic and alive than he used to, and that is saying allot considering he was always on the go. He researched it, and believes this is a great plan.
I am a little skeptical, and wanted others opinions. He still believes his old way of eating (BFL style) is great, but that this new way is even better for him. He thinks I should try it with him for a while, and I will understand.
Anyone here do it? You basically eat small amounts during the day, snacking on fruits and veggies, then for dinner have a large dinner of large amounts of healthy foods. My husband eats a huge dinner, and even ice cream sometimes, and he just keeps looking better, and more muscular.
Oh jeez...I read about that one in T-Mag quite awhile back.
Personally...I think that guys can tolerate a bit more, um, dietary creativity than gals. I received an email last year from a cyberbud of mine, who is VERY buff and also competes...here's a portion of it...(BTW this was when I was on a competition diet last year...)
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Your diet IS going to suck. I'm not some pig, BUT from what I can tell from other females I know, that compete, men can get away with alot more starches than women. Meaning, you are gonna really not like the diet..but who does? LOL I'll tell you right now, even with all the starches I was eating, I was dead for about 4 full weeks. I mean no energy - closed eyes on the treadmill, dead.
Now this is just my "free" opinion, but it's what I have seen from other women...maybe you are different, but make sure you pay close attention to your body and how it responds to the diet and cardio.
And ya gotta eat.....even if you have to decrease meal sizes, I think 6 or 7 meals really helps. I think for my next show, I may end up going to 8 or 9 meals a day. Smaller but more frequent - like 2 hrs. But like I already said, listen to the body. Me, I was starch boy. And my body got to a point it was so "fast" that I was hungry within 5 minutes of eating - and thats a REAL annoying thing to deal with.
What I'm trying to say here is that IMO (as well as my correspondent's opinion) men can handle more carbs and food punishment than women. The Warrior Diet *might* work for SOME guys, but for women and people in general that want to burn fat? I don't think so. You say your hubby has always been lean...so he can do something radical like the Warrior Diet and not really see any effects.
Anyhooo...T-Mag has quite a bit of info on the Warrior Diet (I daresay that's probably where your hubby picked it up). They ran an interesting article called "The Diet Manifesto" and had a synopsis of the diet as follows:
Synopsis: Man, this one got people excited. We've received more e-mails about this diet than any other diet we've posted at T-mag. The diet was written by the editor of the now defunct Mind and Muscle Power magazine, Ori Hofmekler.
Here's the skinny: Don't eat all day long. Workout in the evening, then come home and stuff yourself with just about anything you want, just like the romantic warriors did it in olden times. Oh, there's a lot of talk about warriors, instincts, and anthropology, but that's the gist of it.
The concept flies in the face of so many of bodybuilding's accepted maxims, that the diet was either going to be revolutionary or a total flop. Among other things, this one-meal-a-day plan is supposed to stretch your glycogen reserves, increase your sensitivity to insulin and boost your protein efficiency.
Reader Feedback: Very mixed. About half who tried it said it was a failure. The other reported fat loss and really liked the convenience of not worrying about eating all day. We received no feedback that I can remember concerning muscle gains during this diet.
Conclusion: This one is a coin toss. Try it at your own peril. Ori was supposed to come out with a book on this diet, but now than M&M Power has folded, I'm not sure if the book is still in the works or not.
Again...please let me stress to you that MEN ARE DIFFERENT...IMO they can tolerate more drastic stuff like this than us women can. Us gals are FAR more efficient at storing fat - and I know what would happen if I starved myself (or just ate tiny amounts) all day...the outcome would be a giant binge in the evening. I know this because I've lived it - and that's one of the ways I got to 265 pounds.
That is what I told my husband when he was trying to convince me. Hello??? I am female whose body LOVES storing fat lately... you (my husband) are a man who has metabolism like the energizer bunny.... something tells me my results won't be the same as yours (my husband). lol.
I told him today that I would stick with the tried and true... for me.
A few friends of mine who are serious about weight training have described similar diets used to keep the bulk on. They've basically said that all of the weight training can cause rapid weight loss so they need to consume a lot in order to keep their weight stable.
Big meal at night? I don't think so!!!! I'm saying this because I lost a friend two days ago, a very fit Boston Marathon runner, to a pulmonary embolism he got at 8 PM after eating dinner. Many heart attacks occur after big meals.
I think we were meant to eat small portions throughout the day (especially to control blood sugar). And even if a warrior tribe did kill a buffalo, they shared it with everyone and dried the rest so no one got to pig out at one meal anyway. Humans should not eat like snakes.
Bodybuilders go through bulking phases when they gain fat and muscle, and maybe that's what would benefit your hubby in order to build more muscle. You can too if that's your goal, but pray the fat part comes off again! After the bulking phase you have to eat super clean, small meals frequently to get cut.
The Warrior Diet
lol.
