Anybody on the warrior diet? Please share your experience!

penguinstuff

Hello! I found about the warrior diet a week ago, I got the book this Monday and I'm half way trough it. I decided there would be no need to completely finish it to start at least trying to implement it during the day. I'm a bit scared I'm doing it wrong though. Mostly I'm scared of eating too little in the underearing period (and respectfully - too much if I eat something every time I'm hungry).

I would love to hear anybody's experiences with it, did you ease into it or did you just jump straight to it? Are you following everything to the t?

I would also love to friend anybody on it to check out your diary and get me some motivation and ideas along the way.

It perfectly fits my schedule and I don't feel as hungry as I expected, but I'm a bit limited as to how much of the things I can do (about all the teas, herbs, supplements, etc). Today I had a couple of coffees, a couple of fres citrus juices, two tomatoes, an apple and about 300 grams of yogurt. (Edit, and a handful of sunflower seeds) Was that too much? Too little? Also, here the seasonal salad is mainly tomatoes with cucumbers, peppers and white cheese (brined? Something similar to feta) Is it too bad I'm adding fat to my salad at my main meal, along with the olive oil in it?

Any help is appreciated overall.

TeaBea

Weight loss is taking in fewer calories than your body burns....period. It's not meal timing, or special foods. Those things may help you stay within goal, but staying within calorie goals is how weight loss happens.

That said, I don't know what your daily calorie goal is, or the calorie total for the food you ingested was.....so I have no idea if you are under eating or over eating. With the little info you presented, it looks like a very low protein diet.

Large deficits (under eating) makes it harder for your body to support existing lean muscle mass. So you end up with a higher body fat % than you might like. Adequate protein is helpful to help support your muscle mass. You want to keep protein numbers up.

stanmann571

It's just another way to do IF.

You'll get more interesting and useful comments if you ask about Intermittent fasting/Warrior Diet plan

kommodevaran

That sounds overly complicated. Out bodies are tremendously capable of adapting to different eating patterns, but we have to feed it properly. Are you using your food diary? Hit your calorie goal, and if you're unsure whether you're getting in all you need, track macros as well. MFP's default is a good starting point, you can adjust later.

snickerscharlie

The premise of this diet is to confine yourself to one meal a day after you've finished work and then you can apparently stuff yourself senseless - just like our warrior ancestors did.

I'm not a warrior, nor do I intend to ever be one. This diet is overly complicated and includes a lot of ridiculous things like all of your produce has to be organic and don't use plastic containers because deadly chemical leaching, etc.

I'd give it two thumbs way down if for no other reason than the stupid name.

penguinstuff

Thanks to all who replied. The protein does come in the evening meal that is larger, this was just during the way. I wanted to see what the general opinion is precisely because it ended up being so complicated when I went in dept reading the actual book instead of just articles online. With IF I just wouldn't be able to last trough the day just on water so it looked pretty tempting as an alternative. I'll still give it a shot in a simpler way, I am filling my diary along the way so I'll check how it ends up looking at the end of the week. It's interesting to compare how many posts and videos there are on it but when you try to find a regular person doing it it gets tricky.

snickerscharlie

penguinstuff wrote: »

Thanks to all who replied. The protein does come in the evening meal that is larger, this was just during the way. I wanted to see what the general opinion is precisely because it ended up being so complicated when I went in dept reading the actual book instead of just articles online. With IF I just wouldn't be able to last trough the day just on water so it looked pretty tempting as an alternative. I'll still give it a shot in a simpler way, I am filling my diary along the way so I'll check how it ends up looking at the end of the week. It's interesting to compare how many posts and videos there are on it but when you try to find a regular person doing it it gets tricky.

I do IF, and have been for years. I do 16:8 and it's worked well for me. I simply skip breakfast (a meal I've rarely been in need of anyway), have a good lunch and dinner and a few evening snacks. Know that meal timing has absolutely no effect on weight loss - it's all about the calories.

If you do a search here for Intermittent Fasting, lots of threads will pop up.

Azdak

It's important to remember with any of these types of "diets" is that they are primarily Jedi mind tricks. They have no physiological advantage over any other type of eating.

In the end CICO is the only physical factor involved in weight loss.

Now that is not to disparage Jedi mind tricks per se. Psychology and behavior play significant roles in weight loss.

Bottom line: if you find that the "diet", etc, fits your lifestyle and motivates you to be consistent with calorie control, then go for it.

However, if it is too complicated or takes too much work, or you don't think it's something you can do long-term, then it's not worth it. There is nothing unique or magic about any diet or lifestyle plan that makes it better than any other and that justifies making a heroic effort to follow it.

Don't follow something that feels like a chore in the mistaken belief that it can do something that other plans can't.

rainbowbow

it's just another form of IF.

To me it's a little bit too extreme. Just like OMAD i found myself consistently binge-eating and falling back into a restrictive eating-disorder kind of mindset.

But if it works for you, go for it.

OliveGirl128

penguinstuff wrote: »

Thanks to all who replied. The protein does come in the evening meal that is larger, this was just during the way. I wanted to see what the general opinion is precisely because it ended up being so complicated when I went in dept reading the actual book instead of just articles online. With IF I just wouldn't be able to last trough the day just on water so it looked pretty tempting as an alternative. I'll still give it a shot in a simpler way, I am filling my diary along the way so I'll check how it ends up looking at the end of the week. It's interesting to compare how many posts and videos there are on it but when you try to find a regular person doing it it gets tricky.

You don't have to do a water fast/one meal a day to do IF- there's several IF protocols but the most popular one is 16:8IF and that just means you eat all your calories within an 8 hour window. When I do IF my eating window is from 11am-7pm and this works well with me because I'm not hungry in the morning. Really it's just normal eating, without all the extra snacks/meals that we seem to have added in recent years (I call it the Hobbit syndrome ).

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Vanguard1

I practice OMAD when I am trying to lose, it is Warrior Diet-ish. After my body adapted, it is really the easiest way I have found to control calories. I don't stuff myself silly, but I do fill my plate with a meal that fills me up physically, and pleases me emotionally. At maintenance I do IF at 16:8, but not very strict.

DX2JX2

Any diet with a specific name is probably going to be more marketing then fluff. It's not that they don't work but they're all just different ways of controlling calories. What works for one person might not work for another.

Warrior diet seems way too New Age-y to me and it kind of ruffles my feathers. Like men who jumped on the drum circle bandwagon over the past few years. Same with the Paleo diet - bone broth is not a new thing nor is it a super food! We non-Paleos call it stock and make it with the scraps from cooking other things.

Mr_Knight

penguinstuff wrote: »

With IF I just wouldn't be able to last trough the day just on water so it looked pretty tempting as an alternative.

IF covers a huge spectrum, from 12/12 to 22/2. Everybody can, if absolutely necessary, do any form of it, but that's not really the point. Finding a timing that you can consistently live with is far more important than finding any specific timing.

Good luck! IF can be an immensely liberating way of approaching food, for some of us, hope it works out for you!