For well over a week now I've been eating all of my meals within a four-hour window of time, typically 4pm-8pm. This is the general precept of Ori Hofmekler's "Warrior Diet." My weight loss--about 9 pounds in the first 4 days--has turned around and I'm now headed, slowly, back up the scale, which is what I'd hoped for. That said, considering I'm presently at 159lbs, it's doubtful I'll reach my target goal of 170lbs by New Years.
Hunger pangs, mood swings, and fluctuations in energy have all but dissipated. Some days I feel hungry by four o'clock and some days I don't. In either case, within the undereating daytime period I typically consume 4-5 cups of coffee, black of course, as no caloric intake is technically allowed--that and I have standards.
Although this diet is a drastic deviation away from when I normally eat, the content of my meals is very much the same: meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar. On days where I do two or more workouts, I make sure to really up my fat intake--an extra avocado or cup of almonds or egg yolks, whatever--otherwise I feel considerably hungrier the following day.
On the whole, so far so good. I plan to let this play out at least until the new year.
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