100 Reasons why you should try Eat Stop Eat
The first few are from me, the rest are written by you 
1. Obviously, the weight loss.
2. Productivity – (It’s amazing how much we can get done when we aren’t preoccupied with eating every 3 hours)
3. Because if weight loss really is this easy, why not give it a try (It’s easy)
4. You’ve been eating every 3 hours for the last 10,30,50 years off your life, a 24 hour break might do you a lot of good.
5. Every 24 hour fast saves 5-25 dollars that you would have spent on food you really didn’t need to eat in the first place.
6. Every 24 hour fast involves you NOT creating some sort of food packaging waste (Eat Stop Eat is environmentally friendly)
7. Every time you complete a fast, its a mini-victory.
8. It’s a private diet. If you are private person, no one needs to know you are dieting (sure beats carrying around tupperware everywhere you go)
9. It’s flexible!
10. You learn why you eat. It really exposes your eating habits.
OK, that’s my ten, feel free to add on!
BP
Mine would be:
“You lose fat but don’t lose Muscle”
“You don’t have to buy any supplements to make it work”
- Because of the burst of energy you’ll have afterwards
- Because for 24 hours, you can concentrate on something OTHER than eating every 3-6 hours
- No breakfast or work lunch to prepare = sleep in for 15 minutes!
- Because you’ll learn what it feels like to really be hungry, and those other “hunger pangs” will be more easily ignored.
I’m sure I’ll think of others…
Another of mine would be
“You might realize you actually like workout fasted better” (at least I did)
13. An easy tool to help you stay in a calorie deficit if fat loss is your goal.
-To really understand how much of your eating is HABIT, not hunger
14. Because once you body gets used to IF, you are NEVER ‘starving’.
“You might learn that you actually like the taste of plain ol’ water”
It frees you from obsessing about what/when/how much you eat.
It helps you better connect your mind and body.
It empowers you to understand what you’re feeling – are you really hungry?
Bigger picture of #5: enables you to cut your food costs by 28.5% (that’s 2/7)
@Cath
agree completely!
Mine are:
You can lose fat in only 1-2 days instead of having to cut calories for 7 days or more!
You can still eat foods you enjoy, even holiday goodies!
There is good science to back it up
Because when you DO eat you get to eat REAL FOOD that tastes SO much better than food tasted on a grazing, 300 calories every 2 hours, OMG why am I hungry AGAIN, typical American diet!
It’s brainless! No counting calories, watching portion sizes, worrying about protein/carb ratios, or anything. It’s like dieting on auto-pilot.
@skinnychick907
Awesome – Eat Stop Eat – the Brainless way to lose weight – I love it
I like showing my food who’s boss.
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*Because it almost makes you want to try other foods because you aren’t worried about eating so often.
*Because you can enjoy that piece of cake (or whatever you prefer) with your significant other.
*It’s simplier then trying to figure out all kinds of special diets and cheaper then buying special foods for your “diet”.
*The health benefits other then the fat loss…
Implying customer stupidity sure worked for pushing that weird “Weight Loss 4 Idiots” diet … you hear about that one everywhere. LOL
Because man wasnt meant to live on tuna and chicken breasts.
because you never have to feel like a “cheater” ever again. the vicious cycle of guilt and binging.
*The health benefits other then the fat loss…
This is a big one, the whole SIRT2/longevity/anti-inflammation thing
Your previous fears and mood swings from slipping into a “hypoglycemic” comas while missing one meal will seem RIDICULOUSLY silly.
Regular food flavor improves.
You’ll only want to workout fasted.
Never have to say you’re on a diet.
You might find you don’t have to live with IBS.
Because life is too short to eat broccoli.
because the feeling of accomplisment after completing a 24 hour fast bleeds over into other spheres of life!
Because other religious practices have also been shown to be healthy (meditation, prayer, fellowship).
* No Mid-Day carb crash
* You notice an immediate improvement in the abs, especially if you are already pretty lean
* You prove the “starvation mode” people wrong and make them question their belief system
* Your breath doesn’t smell like your last meal when you workout
* Easier to do intense intervals on an empty stomach, because you aren’t burping up food
* “Everybody who is anyone is doin’ it…”All the cool kinds are doin’ it”
ha ha, like them all. i’ll add:
– feel awesome – i’ms fasting today hand i really feel awesome
– love food more – it seems to taste better i guess absense makes the ….
In addition to losing Fat, Because of the Satisfaction Feeling of Accomplishing a 24 Hours Fast !!
- Because you can still eat that lovely, black-brown, fudgy, squishy, crunchy piece of chocolate brownie cake every now and then and still loose weight! (Before ESE, those indulgences tipped the scales in my disfavour, and made the weight creep on even when otherwise eating rather healthily.)
- Because you may experience that tendencies to heartburn while working out disappears after you start working out fasted (at least that happened to me, no idea if this was coincidential, but I suspect not)
Would you suggest the ESE method to someone who is already extremely thin and lean (BMI = 20) but who wants to be healthier and feeling better improving digestion, mood and physical resistance?
Because it works !
1. Because I never breathe as clearly as I do on fasting days;
2. Because my skin is clearer than it normally is;
1. Beacuase ESE is degigned with longevity in mind.
2. Because everything else that i’ve tried hasn’t worked.
Designed*
It’s the only way to investigate your true relationship with food and begin to fix this relationship if you feel that it needs work.
No more sucking at the teat of the “Diet Industry.”
less inflammation
more growth hormone
less food obsession
more glucagon
less cooking
more energy ,, sorry brad , tried to make an “eatstopeat” haiku
@Daniel
I don’t think you’d do yourself any harm at BMI=20 … my guy is BMI=17 and I wouldn’t recommend it for him
Because I feel like a friggin’ winner after I complete a fast!
@kjtten
Would you suggest just one fast(instead of two) weekly to your guy?
If the fast has such beneficial effects, maybe it is needed by
underweight people to finally gain some healthy weight, by fixing
their organism or something. What do you think?
1. ESE is the ultimate Anti-Diet!
2. It’s primal: food is fuel, plain and simple.
3. Most people are slaves to food. ESE gives us the upper hand.
@Lillea Woodlyns
Exactly!
It works (I’m on my 5th month of ESE and have lost over 10 kilos of fat and 5 inches off my waist – no noticeable muscle loss or strength)
It doesn’t require calorie counting or food weighing
It fits in perfectly with my lifestyle and occupation
It’s free and actually saves me money
It builds my self-control
It puts me ‘in tune’ with my body
It might make me live longer (see calorie restriction research)
It puts me in a happy mood
It’s improved my sexual performance
It makes me more alert
It makes me think clearly and creatively
The best seasoning for food is hunger. All food tastes better.
Because eating is a feast after a fast, I take the time to enjoy it more. I find that I eat slower and in the end, eat less then I did before ESE even on eating days.
Not drinking soda all the time is better for my teeth. (I find I drink less even on nonfasting days.)
I don’t have to plan meals for fasting days… leaving me with more time that isn’t food centric.
No cheating guilt.. ever.
I never ever ever will have to weight and measure out my food in detail and spend hours looking up points or calories and recording them ever again.
I save money on food.
I have more energy, especially in the afternoons.
I don’t have to turn down opportunities to have a meal with others out of fear I will go over my budget of calories for the day.
Because ESE appears to have done in one month what 3 years of endocrinologist visits, weight loss attempts, and prescription drugs have failed to accomplish – regulate my hormones and normalize my cycles. I’m so happy I could cry! Other results – I’ve lost about 4 lbs and 9 inches (overall, but 2 of those inches came off of my waist).
Because food shopping whilst fasting and then putting it all away, followed by sitting down with a glass of water is a “twisted perversion” you grow to like!
because waiting to break a fast is like a childhood Christmas all again.
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