Eat Stop Eat Review

This is going to be long but well worth it so make sure you read the entire thing and see what kind of FREE bonus I'm offering at the end.

In the beginning of January, I made a New Year's Resolution.

Looking at the state of the world, everything seemed so negative. The economies are tanking, people are being laid off in droves, technology is moving forward but, it seems we're kind of at a stand still when it comes to obtaining something earth shattering, and the waistlines of Americans just increased by at least 2 inches each person from the holiday feeding.

The resolution that I made to myself was to keep an open mind about any approach health and fitness related. Don't discard something simply because it doesn't follow what you've read in the past.

Really, this is nothing new to me. Back a number of years ago, I was following the same mantra that everyone else was: Dietary fat was bad, don't eat it. Dietary fat will turn into body fat. If you want to lose weight, take the dietary fat out of your diet.

But then I stepped outside that box and read a book called The Testosterone Advantage Plan. There's some great insight in that book and changed my tune on dietary fat. Dietary fat turns out to actually be essential and is part of the solution of reducing body fat, not the problem.

So I followed the eating plan and did the workouts. Nine weeks later, I was seven pounds lighter.

So I had come to a great discovery that when it comes to losing and gaining weight, it's not the dietary fat's fault, it's the extra calories that you consume that is the main issue.

I learned more and more. Learned about eating 6-7 meals a day instead of the standard three, learned about starvation mode that it was best to eat every 3-4 hours or your body was going to think it was starving and start eating off your hard earned muscle.

I learned about the importance of getting a good protein drink mixed with fast acting carbs after a workout to help fuel the muscle recovery process.

I learned that you should be getting roughly one gram of protein per pound of your body weight.

I learned that you need to do exercises that involve the movement of your biggest muscles such as rows, deadlifts, squats, lunges, bench presses, and pull ups.

I even re-evaluated concepts that I blogged about recently such as starvation mode and ketosis that I had previously shunned.

Back a number of weeks ago, I came across a book mentioned on another blog that I had never heard about, called Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.

Basically, the book outlines an eating plan that is very very simple: Eat normal, but for one or two 24 hour periods a week, do no eat anything at all.

Let me say that again, no eating. Nothing. Nada. No can do. No consuming of calories (including calories from liquids) for 24 hours.

At first, I thought "No way, this guy is crazy. Starving yourself is the absolute worse thing you can do."

But, I remembered that I was going to keep an open mind and to read things that are outside of my "box" to at least see something from a different perspective.

So I bought the book, and read it in a couple of hours (it's not that long of a read).

Then I decided that I needed to use myself as a guinea pig with this approach and see what happens. So I started on my journey of fasting for 24 hours, twice a week and I was going to do it for four weeks to see what kind of results I would get.

But, before I reveal what my results were, there's one important part: You have to do resistance training 2-3 times a week. Doing this resistance training is what is going to preserve that muscle of yours. The resistance training could be anything from bodyweight exercises to full blown barbell squats. All that matters is that you do some kind of resistance training. Not long steady state cardio. Not an aerobics class. Resistance training (although intervals are fine to add in, and I found the I Hate Mike Interval Workout did a pretty good job).

A Typical Fast Day

Here's an example of a 24 hour period that I fasted:

Monday night around 8:30 pm - Had some lowfat cottage cheese and a TBSP of natural peanut butter

Before bed - A cup of Melissa tea

Tuesday Morning around 5:15 am - woke up, got ready for the day

7:00 am - started drink water, had a hot cup of green tea

8:00 am - felt hungry, had another hot cup of green tea

Drank in total about 4 liters of water during the day and whenever I felt hungry, made a hot cup of green tea

4:00 pm - Completed the I Hate Mike Interval workout

Drank more water

6:30 pm - taught my group class

8:30 pm - time to eat. Had a half a can of tuna rolled into a multi-grain pita and ate an orange

Before bed - 1/2 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, a TBSP of natural peanut butter, a hot cup of Melissa tea

Results

Here's a breakdown by week of how much weight I lost:

After week 1: lost 2.5 pounds

After week 2: lost another 1.5 pounds

After week 3: lost another 2.5 pounds

After week 4: lost another 2.0 pounds

Overall weight loss: 8.5 pounds. That equates to a loss of over 5% of my bodyweight in 27 days.

Was it easy? At times yes, but at other times no but after a couple of fasts, you almost forget that you're not eating.

Even though I'm a bit regimented on what I eat on days I wasn't fasting, the overall concept of eating what you "normally" eat when you're not fasting and then simply adding some resistance training makes it a lot less stressful in that you don't have to count calories or measure things out or eat this or eat that. All you do is stop eating two times a week for 24 hours and then the rest of the time you just "act normal."

I'm sure this question has entered your mind: Won't I just gain the weight back when I stop cycling fasts?

After I was done with this experiment for four weeks, the following week I ate normal (and worked out four times during the week) and actually saw my weight drop another half a pound.


How YOU Can Lose Weight Like This

So here's the bottom line on what you can do to get results like I did (or even better): Buy Eat Stop Eat.

As an added bonus for buying the product, I will give you a FREE copy of my diary that I kept for the 27 days following Eat Stop Eat.

The diary will give you EXACTLY what I ate and will tell you EXACTLY what workouts I did. If you follow the guidelines set out in Eat Stop Eat as well as in my diary YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. Whether you've got that 10 pounds of fat left that is just hanging on for dear life or have already lost a significant amount of weight and are stuck at a plateau or you're looking to start losing weight from scratch, this plan WILL work if followed properly.

Click on this link to buy Eat Stop Eat and after you purchase it (it's an e-book so you get the book instantly), forward a copy of the e-mail receipt to me at: eatstopeat@leanbodyfitness.com and I will send you a copy of my diary.

Workout Options

In my diary I list out exactly what my workouts were. You don't have to do exactly what I did. I was using equipment such as a lat pulldown machine, barbells, dumbbells, and a stability ball.

But there are some other options to programs you can do along with Eat Stop Eat that would be a great combination.

1. If you have no equipment available, I would suggest Craig Ballantyne's Turbulence Training Bodyweight Cardio v2.0 workout that you can find here.

2. If you have dumbbells available to you, I would suggest any of Craig Ballanyne's Turbulence Training Workouts that you can find here.

The workouts that you can buy from Turbulence Training are extremely affordable at less than $10 and are some of the most effective workouts I've ever done so you won't be disappointed.

3. If you live local to me, you can sign up for the NEW Lean Body Fat Loss Training Program that I'm offering that would be a perfect fit with Eat Stop Eat.

In Perspective

When I started following Eat Stop Eat, I realized that I was saving roughly $10-15 a week in groceries. So in the course of a month, I saved between $40-60.

What this means is that at minimum, the amount I saved in groceries paid for Eat Stop Eat and at best I actually saved $20 in groceries for the month after paying the cost of the book.

So if you bought both Eat Stop Eat and either Craig Ballantyne's Bodyweight workout or one of the other Turbulence Training programs, they would AT MINIMUM pay for themselves over the course of 6 weeks.

Final Thoughts

There was something very free about not eating all day. I had initially thought that I was going to feel weak and tired without eating for 24 hours but, it turns out that I never felt that way and after the first couple of fasts I actually felt MORE energized.

What it also can teach you is how to adapt to the feeling of hunger. Meaning, once you've fasted a few times, you noticed on other days that you're not fasting and have a busy day and scheduled eating times take a back seat, that after 8 hours of not eating, you're fine. You're not craving or "starving" like you have felt in the past.

This was an eye opening experience for me and quite frankly is without a doubt the best program that I've put myself on that has resulted in weight loss so consistently and SO QUICKLY.

Honestly, I am currently at the weight I was (although a lot leaner) when I was in high school (for those that know me know how long ago that was and for those that don't know me, I'll give you a hint: This guy was big on the music scene at the time...unfortunately..).

I'm going to continue experimenting with this approach some more to get an idea of how it affects other health issues like blood cholesterol and glucose levels so keep checking back to this blog to find out more.

And, I will continue to keep a diary of everything I eat (or don't eat) when following Eat Stop Eat, and all of my workouts and if there are any updates to the FREE diary that you get from me for buying Eat Stop Eat, you will get those updates at ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE.

Give it a try and let me know how your experiences are with it.

Don't wait. Click here to order your copy right now.

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