Anyone try The Every-Other-Day Diet
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Ctmikey1980
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My sister sent me this link regarding the every other day diet. Just seeing if anybody has tried this with success? The book’s author is Krista Varady. The basics are you eat 500
Calories one day, and the next day you eat whatever you want, then you repeat, etc etc.
Calories one day, and the next day you eat whatever you want, then you repeat, etc etc.
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if i ate 500 calories one day no one would want to me near me and i'd likely be fired :P
but this ONLY works if you are eating at a calorie deficit at the end of the week. i can see many people going crazy on eating day especially after having starved themselves the previous day and eating more than enough to keep gaining or maintenance.
There is no magic way of eating. to lose weight you need to be in a calorie deficit. if for someone they can eat a reasonable amount of calories on eating day then sure this could work for weight loss.
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Ctmikey1980 wrote: »My sister sent me this link regarding the every other day diet. Just seeing if anybody has tried this with success? The book’s author is Krista Varady. The basics are you eat 500
Calories one day, and the next day you eat whatever you want, then you repeat, etc etc.
It's just version of intermittent fasting similar to 5:2 (same idea but you eat at maintenance for 5 days of the week and ~500 cal for 2 days). The key is you are building a calorie deficit over the week with the low calorie days and eat 'normally' at maintenance the others.
Some people enjoy these versions of IF, but you still have to be mindful not to overeat on your maintenance days so that you keep a deficit over the week.4 -
if i ate 500 calories one day no one would want to me near me and i'd likely be fired :P
but this ONLY works if you are eating at a calorie deficit at the end of the week. i can see many people going crazy on eating day especially after having starved themselves the previous day and eating more than enough to keep gaining or maintenance.
There is no magic way of eating. to lose weight you need to be in a calorie deficit. if for someone they can eat a reasonable amount of calories on eating day then sure this could work for weight loss.
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Sure fire way to easily wipe out a deficit on the "eat whatever you want" days.
Edited to add: Easy to wipe out a deficit if the person is not already actively aware of how many calories they were eating daily prior to starting a specific way of eating. They could be used to eating over 2000 calories a day, and by restricting so much, on those 'eat anything' days they could easily over eat and increase that intake by much more if they were already eating over their maintenance level.3 -
I'm doing the 9 day watermelon-egg fast diet this week. if it doesn't work I'll try the every other day diet next week.40
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I'm doing the 9 day watermelon-egg fast diet this week. if it doesn't work I'll try the every other day diet next week.
why? why all the fancy hyped up things. seems like an exercise in futility.
just log your food and eat at a calorie deficit. practice good eating habits you can keep for your life (aka "maintenance")22 -
Ctmikey1980 wrote: »My sister sent me this link regarding the every other day diet. Just seeing if anybody has tried this with success? The book’s author is Krista Varady. The basics are you eat 500
Calories one day, and the next day you eat whatever you want, then you repeat, etc etc.
Back in the day when I followed it, it was called JUDDD-Dr. Johnson's Up Day, Down Day Diet. Dr. Johnson was before Mosley and Varady took ADF/IF to the mainstream. ADF was what I did for my active weight loss phase and it worked well for me-lost the extra weight with little fuss and transitioned into maintenance fine. Now that I'm a few years into maintenance I've gotten away from IF but I have nothing bad to say about my experience with it2 -
Ctmikey1980 wrote: »My sister sent me this link regarding the every other day diet. Just seeing if anybody has tried this with success? The book’s author is Krista Varady. The basics are you eat 500
Calories one day, and the next day you eat whatever you want, then you repeat, etc etc.
How about 5:2? Eat 500 calories just 2 days a week and then maintenance the other 5. Deficit is less steep. Aggressive weight loss makes a larger % of lean muscle loss more likely.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/100058-5-2-fasting
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/8628-5-2-diet3 -
I'm doing the 9 day watermelon-egg fast diet this week. if it doesn't work I'll try the every other day diet next week.
It is not a fast if you are eating. You can't do a 9 day diet in a week. Most of what you will lose is water weight so if working to you mean a scale loss you will likely see it but it won't last because the water weight will come back. Basically there is no point in doing it.8 -
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Yeah, I know what you mean. I was tempted to Google the diet, but then thought better of it. I'd like to not know whether it's an actual fad diet or not.4 -
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »
actually, I was being totally facetious. Just my luck it turns out to be a real diet. smh35 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
actually, I was being totally facetious. Just my luck it turns out to be a real diet. smh
My optimism is restored.8 -
There is probably very little out there that has not been tried as a magic bullet. Who knows how many people have been out on their front lawn grazing to lose weight.4
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I'm doing the 9 day watermelon-egg fast diet this week. if it doesn't work I'll try the every other day diet next week.
Quite a combination there.
Um ewww no.
My friend did the alternate day diet. And of course she regained everything she lost when she went back to "normal eating".1 -
New_Heavens_Earth wrote: »
I did ADF and have now been maintaining my loss for over 5 years. After I transitioned into maintenance I switched to 16:8IF for a few years and that worked well for me, for that time.
The long term success rate for maintaining weight loss is dismal, regardless of what plan is used for the weight loss phase.7 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
actually, I was being totally facetious. Just my luck it turns out to be a real diet. smh
That’s so funny and very sad at the same time.6 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »
actually, I was being totally facetious. Just my luck it turns out to be a real diet. smh
That’s so funny and very sad at the same time.
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