After seeing a few interviews with Ori Hofmekler on youtube, I decided to give his diet, the "Warrior Diet" as he calls it, another chance. I had done it once before back in high school, a time when I was still consuming huge amounts of sugar, carbohydrates, and processed foods in general. I don't remember how long I followed it, but clearly my enthusiasm for it did not last.
As of last Friday, I have only been taking food during a five (sometimes four) hour window of the day, either 3 or 4pm to 8pm. While it's true that I would love nothing more than to shatter some of my CrossFit PRs by being smaller and faster, weight loss is not my goal. The eight pounds of fat I've dropped since starting the diet I hope to regain (plus about 5 more pounds) in lean muscle.
My real goal with this dietary experiment is to find better and more sustained energy levels for my day-to-day living. So far, it's been a mixed bag. Today I feel great and will be able to break the fast without intensive hunger or craving, BUT after doing lengthy and intensive workouts like yesterday's "Whitten" or "Fight Gone Bad"--which I did on Saturday at CrossFit Kirkwood--my mind feels pretty foggy and my body feels wiped clean. Eating seems to cure the fogginess and exhaustion. Depending on how this pans out over the next couple of weeks, I may decide to inject my own post-workout nutrition into the diet's fixed timetable. We'll see.
Go, go paleo! Seriously, no other diet compares.
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