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"What does a warrior eat?". That may sound a bit silly in this time and age, but the question still applies. Nowadays when people think "warrior" they probably think of athletic icons, people they see on television, the gym rat who is always at the gym, and a whole slew of other images of "warrior" that bombard us each and every day. While it may be true that those people are at the peak of athletic excellence, they are often the most un-healthy people out there. Between all the chemicals they put into their bodies, and the nutritionally shallow foods most of them eat, they are really not the ones we should look to for a model of how a warrior eats.

A warrior only eats things that are natural, whole, and nutrient dense. Lots of fruits and vegetables, plenty of plant based fats and protein, moderate amounts of lean animal protein, and water. In short, a warrior only eats things that will help him to be more healthy, and not things that will passively kill him.

This page of my blog is dedicated to articles reviewing diet books, warrior worthy food ideas, and my ideas on diet.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Day 16- Thoughts

I've been doing this thing for more than two weeks now. The first week I was dropping fat about a pound a day. Once I got to a certain body fat percentage, it seems like my body has adjusted to my eating style. I still eat whatever I want in the evenings (I've been following the carb/protein alternation plan) as much as I want. My weight naturally goes up a little the day after I carb-0-load, but it always goes back down the day after I eat more protein. It seems as if I've hit a plateau... I'm going up and down about 1.5-2 lbs a every other day. The good thing about this is, once I get to where I want to be, maintaining won't be hard. But since I'm not where I want to be yet, I need to make some changes to knock out that last 1-2 percent body fat.

I think carb loading is counterproductive if you want to lose fat. (at least the way I do it... pizza and cookies anybody?) So for a little while anyways, I'm going to try and make my meals higher protein (even if I do eat spaghetti or something, I'll have a protein shake or something with it). Also I want to improve the quality of my meals too.

Hopefully by making these changes I can lose those last few pounds of fat around my back/waist area. Once I get to where I want to be I'm confident that I can maintain.

Before I started this diet I at zero vegetables or fruits. I'd eat granola cereal in the morning and feel pretty healthy about myself. I went out to lunch almost every day. It wasn't until like two weeks before I started the Warrior Diet that I started even counting my calories.

My initial reason for starting this eating pattern was to loose fat. Now I would only call fat loss a side effect, the best thing about the warrior diet is increase in energy, without a doubt.

I'm not a big fan of Ori (the author of the warrior diet) but I will say he introduced me to the idea of intermittent fasting (which has been around long before he wrote the book) I think its the fact that he charges $300 for 30 min of talking to him on the phone about your diet. Some people think he's god or something on the forums, its pathetic really.