Eat Stop Eat Review

Eat Stop Eat — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:02:02 +0000

Eat Stop Eat – How to Build Muscle and Lose Fat by Fasting

I first read about fasting in Steve Justa’s book Rock Iron Steel. He recommends fasting once a week for 20-24 hours. This would make you stronger and clean your body by getting all the toxins out of it.

A few years later I tried Ori Hofmekler’s Warrior Diet. On this diet you alternate daily 20h fasts with 4 hour feedings. I quit this diet after a few days because getting all your calories within a 4 hour time frame didn’t suit my lifestyle.

I didn’t give fasting much consideration after this. Until a few weeks ago while preparing the post How Many Meals Should You Eat Daily. Researching how meal frequency affects your metabolism got me interested in fasting again.

Studies show that eating every 3 hours doesn’t increase your metabolism. Less frequent meals or fasting doesn’t decrease your metabolism neither. Fasting can actually boost your metabolism during the first 36 hours.

But that wasn’t why I wanted to give fasting another try.

Your Relation with Food. For years I ate healthy from Monday to Saturday. On Sunday I ate mostly junk foods. This is now called the Cheat Your Way Thin diet: eating junk food this way accelerates fat loss and keeps you motivated.

I knew that the 2 reasons for the junk food consumption on Sunday were my laziness to cook, but also a need for variety. It seemed I needed a break from cooking rituals and whole foods once a week.

Fasting. This is what eventually got me to fasting. Too lazy to cook on Sunday? I would fast from now on instead of eating junk food. Fasting also teaches you to control your hunger & cravings. Sounded perfect.

I started looking for books on fasting. I discovered there weren’t a lot of useful ones. Most of them saw fasting only as a detox tool — advising fasting for up to 10 days — and didn’t consider the perspective of weight lifters.

There were only 2 approaches that could work: Martin Berkhan’s Leangains and Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat. I was tempted by Leangains, but since it’s similar to the Warrior Diet (16/8h fast/feed vs. 20/4h), I wasn’t sure I would like it.

Eat Stop Eat is a downloadable eBook. It counts 90 pages and has the most up to date research about fasting, 46 references to be exact. Brad debunks myths on fasting, gives you all the benefits and explains exactly how to fast.

Eat Stop Eat is easy to apply. The only thing you need to do is fast 1 or 2x a week for 24 hours. You choose which days fit you best. Here are some of the benefits you can expect from Eat Stop Eat:

My Experience with Eat Stop Eat. I’ve been fasting 2x per week since almost 2 months. Sunday 8pm until Monday 8pm & Tuesday 8pm until Wednesday 8pm. I lift weights Tu/Th/Su, so 2x the day after fasting.

I haven’t experienced any strength loss. I actually feel stronger the day after fasting. I asked Brad if he had an explanation for this. His reply:

The fact that you no longer worry about nutrition, or put as much… dependency … into your nutrition, would let you concentrate on what really matters…

I’ve only lost about 1lbs/0,5kg. But that’s because I eat more carbs to meet my caloric needs. Body fat hasn’t increased although carb intake is higher. Grocery bill has dropped by 20%. Sunday’s junk fests are history.

The biggest benefit for me is increased productivity. I get more work done on the days I fast. Main reason is that those days are longer: no cooking and no eating saves me 3h/day. And I don’t need to worry about food.

Eat Stop Eat & StrongLifts 5×5. If you’re doing StrongLifts 5×5, here’s how your week could look like this when you do Eat Stop Eat:

Monday: StrongLifts 5×5 + 8 nutrition rules
Tuesday: rest + 8 nutrition rules
Wednesday: StrongLifts 5×5 + 8 nutrition rules
Thursday: rest + fast
Friday: StrongLifts 5×5 + 8 nutrition rules
Sunday: rest + fast

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