The Stiver Warrior Diet

06/26/2011

Days until Con : 67

So for half of this week I've tried out my own version of the Warrior Diet. As today is weigh in day I was shocked to find that I lost 3.6 pounds. For awhile I'd plateaued to losing only 1 or 2 pounds, so it's nice to see a number like 3.6.

What have I been doing?

I start the day off with a banana, and then I almost always wish I had had more food for breakfast, but alas I am one of those people who make a million excuses as to why they cannot have a bigger breakfast. I carry with me three pieces of fruit, or fiber one snack bars. Honestly fruit is the better choice but the fiber one bars I'd purchased in bulk awhile back and wanted to get rid of them. I eat every two hours until lunch. For lunch, I eat whatever I want, which honestly is still fairly healthy stuff. I mostly make my own salads, complete with lean proteins. Then I stop eating for the day.
Around 7 or 8 pm I work out anywhere from 30 minutes of intense resistance training to 1 hour of general aerobic activity. Intense resistance training though is the key, because you burn calories well after the workout. Also, you have to work out somewhere in the middle of the fasting period, which is why I say to work out around 6 or 7 hours after lunch.

This process I started around Wednesday, and I weighed myself on Wednesday and hadn't lost any pounds yet that week.

Anyways, so far I'm not feeling starved or weak, the 12 hour daily fasting cycles feel almost natural and trust me when I say I get plenty of food an in enough intervals as to not send my body into a starvation state. I do have to warn you, and myself, that a daily fasting diet can be dangerous, and if done wrong you will send your body into a constant starvation state which means you'll actually gain weight instead of lose weight and your insulin levels will become somewhat chaotic.

The exact diet I'm on is something more than a few doctors have debate about, but the results are amazing. In most weight loss scenarios you plateau after a month and begin losing very little, but all the research for the diet I'm trying (and modified) shows people losing just as much weight in the beginning as the end. I've decided to give it another week to see if that's true.

The basics of the warrior diet, as modified by Stiver.

* Eat every two to three hours from the time you wake up to lunch.
* Be calorie aware but not calorie counting
* Sometime between lunch and before you go to bed, work out. Preferably resistance training and preferably in the middle of the fasting time, so about 6pm. (it's a scientific thing I don't quite understand)
* No pastas, very little breads and rice. Though I work off the 80 percent rule, which means out of a week you can allow yourself 20 percent failure of your goal foods. So you decide when the 20 percent applies.


That's about it. If you decide to try it, let me know if you have any success. Or if you're a guru who believes what I'm doing is terrible for my body, then also let me know. Questions about the Stiver Warrior Diet? Let me know.