The Eat Stop Eat Diet Review

Are you looking for a drastic and ground breaking method to lose weight? Are you sick of counting calories everyday? Are you too busy to cook 6 meals per day? If that’s your case, you should definitely try the straightforward, but not effortless Eat Stop Eat weight loss method.

What is Eat Stop Eat?

In short, the Eat Stop Eat method is a short-range (24 hour) fasting and strength training method for durable weight loss. It is also known as intermittent fasting. It was released back in 2007 by Brad Pilon and Eat Stop Eat is right now the leading online manual on reaching optimal fitness with flexible and alternating fasting.

In addition to learning the ins and outs of the Eat Stop Eat lifestyle, this manual will teach you about alternating fasting and the metabolism, physical condition, body composition, hormonal fluctuations and more.

Brad Pilon, the author of this book, says that you will not slow down your metabolism by fasting and you will suffer no muscle losses. In fact, an entire battery of tests was conducted in the University of Guelph, in Guelph Ontario, Canada, by a team of scientists to study the effects of this diet.

The results of his research were compiled and named "The Metabolic Effects of Short Periods of Fasting in Humans and its Potential Application in Weight Loss".

More on Brad

Brad Pilon is a scientist from the city of Toronto, who specializes in the field of muscle building and fat loss. The Eat Stop Eat method is the outcome of the Graduate research he conducted at the University of Guelph. Prior to that, Brad worked in a major supplement company for approximately 7 years.

Employed as a research & development manager, he had to travel regularly to various parts of the world to meet prominent researchers in the world of body building and weight loss. Brad Pilon also had the chance to meet Mr. Olympia winners, enjoy a meal with Arnold Schwarzenegger and training sessions with 400 pound men.

How Does the Eat Stop Eat Method Work?

The majority of people use the terms “auto-pilot” and “brainless” to describe the Eat Stop Eat diet. Anyway, Mr. Pilon asserts that no secret methods are used in the Eat Stop Eat diet, with the exception of one rule – “the only scientifically proven method to shed body fat is by provoking a calorie shortage. And alternating fasting is an easy way to cut calories for weight loss.”

An aspect that separates the Eat Stop Eat method from the rest is it recommends that you count calories every week rather than on a daily basis. This characteristic gives this diet a strong psychological edge over other methods.

While usual diet methods force users to follow day to day – even hour to hour in some cases – caloric guidelines, which can add stress to the dieter’s life, the Eat Stop Eat method only asks users to follow caloric recommendations over the course of a week.

For instance, if you need to eat 2000 calories everyday to stabilize your body weight, that means that you’ll be required to cut 250 calories from your diet each day if you want to lose half a pound in a week.

Another feature of the Eat Stop Eat diet is that you are allowed to eat regularly for 6 days out of the week as long as you fast on the seventh day. This way, you will still remove 1750 calories from your diet, and you’ll burn half a pound of body fat.

You will also be able to eat all the foods that you like without having to calculate calories every day. This way, the weight loss process is much more easy-going. When you only have to count the calories on a weekly basis rather than on a daily basis, the process is a lot less demanding. As a matter of fact, one of Eat Stop Eat’s slogan is “Think weekly, because nothing changes in one day.”
Most men and women that follow the Eat Stop Eat method usually go trough 1 or 2 fasts a week in order to shed fat, and do some extra strength training to build muscle mass if it’s needed.

Novice dieters can begin with one fast per week; while more advanced dieters can go for 2 fasts per week. Very advanced dieters can even go trough complete workouts during their fasting days.

Is the Eat Stop Eat the right choice for me?

The Eat Stop Eat diet is perfect for people who want to enjoy life while getting outstanding weight loss results.

Brad Pilon is against any method that requires that you live an unbalanced lifestyle in order to lose weight. People who are looking for flexible and pragmatic eating plans that work well with their way of living should definitely give this one a closer look.

You probably won’t lose 5 pounds in a week with this diet. There are plenty of extreme dieting methods that can get you these types of short-term results. The issue with these practices is that they usually lead to an awful yo-yo effect…

The first few days you will go without food, chances are you will get strong hunger pangs. This will take some time to get used to. However, the good thing is that once you’re accustomed to it, you will start shedding these few unwanted pounds very fast.

Please note that if you need finely structured plans that tell you exactly what you should eat, this diet is probably not for you. This diet is not an exhaustive meal-to-meal program.

The 4th version of Eat Stop Eat

Brad Pilon released the 4th version of Eat Stop Eat in September 2010. The manual is almost double the size of the original version of Eat Stop Eat. Brad included some new information and additional research on the consequences of fasting on cortisol, testosterone levels, leptin, inflammation, training while fasting, effects of fasting on the brain, workout planning plus whole new chapters on the effects of fasting on blood glucose levels.

So if you think alternating fasting is for you, and if you’re interested by the science behind it, the lifestyle or just view it as a good method to shed unwanted pounds and maintain a lean body, then you should definitely give this program a try.

You can get the latest edition of the manual at the official Eat Stop Eat site.

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This article was written by Will from Sprained Ankle Institute. For more, read his article on 3 day diet plan.