Easy Diet Tip for the days you aren’t fasting:
Eat one small meal
Eat one medium meal
Eat one large meal
Have a couple snacks when you feel like it.
It doesn’t matter which meal is which size, so play with it and see what you like best.
My personal routine is typically medium breakfast (600-ish calories), Small lunch (300-400-ish Calories) big dinner (800-1000+ Calories) and a couple snacks
Obviously what is ‘small, medium, and large’ depends on you, your goals and your activity levels…so you need to personalize it a bit, but regardless this is a great tool for preventing every meal from becoming a feast.
Simple and effective.
BP
This entry was posted by Brad Pilon on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 8:39 am and is filed under
Weight loss, weight loss success
Hey Brad,
Great post! Very succinct.
How many calories do you typically take in during the meal after your fast ends?
We all grew up with dietary guideline and schedules as set forth by health and diet experts, but when abandoned them and learned to listen to my body’s true hunger and ate when I wanted, how much (or how little) I wanted, and not feel guilty about skipping a meal or three, I actually lost fat (down to ~5%) and rarely feel hungry and definitely never ravenous. I’ve maintained about 5% for over a year now and I’m not even trying.
When I was competing in bodybuilding, getting down to even close to 5% bodyfat was brutal in every aspect… eating chicken and brown rice or broccoli every 3 hours. Doing cardio between weight training, etc. Thank goodness those days are long gone.
I recently cut down to just 2 days of lifting a week. The rest of the time I just go walking or enjoy a hike with my wife and the dog. And I eat whenever and as much (or as little) as I feel like. Sometimes when the fridge is empty, the wife and I just skip eating until the next day when we have a chance to go to the grocery store. (No more frantic panic to go to a local crappy restaurant just because there’s nothing to eat in the house!) BTW, my wife has lost 20 pounds of fat doing the same… something she hasn’t been able to do for over a decade by following other generic diets.
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Brad,
Recognized your image on this website and was wondering if you knew about it.
http://www.doug-is-ripped.com/
Isn’t that an image in which you were showing how to fake a before and after shot. Too sad the lengths people will go to to make money on people who just wanna be thin.
Matt
Once again simple yet extremely valuable advice from Brad.
Hi Al,
Completely depends on when my fast ends. I simply go back to eating exactly as I normally would – I never change anything because I have fasted.
B
“When I was competing in bodybuilding, getting down to even close to 5% bodyfat was brutal in every aspect… eating chicken and brown rice or broccoli every 3 hours. Doing cardio between weight training, etc. Thank goodness those days are long gone.”
I had the exact same experience, when I finally let go and relaxed about this stuff, I got leaner without all the extra effort.
B
It’s unbelievable. What is worse is that people like Fbook and MySpace continue to allow these people to advertise on their sites.
I get a hard time if I ever want to advertise Eat Stop Eat, but people with fake, stolen, before and afters? They’re allowed to do whatever they want.
Sad, Sad times.
B
Thanks Benn
B
MAN I LOVE THIS BLOG! This post made so much sense to me on so many levels. I love your idea of keeping your diet and you workout seperate from eachother in terms of doing their job: eat less for fat loss and workout for strength or size, etc. Thanks Brad.
This is a good suggestion. I’ll try these.
I was recently reading a book where the author treats the daily food intake as a bank account. Your tips seem to go along with this. No strict calorie counting or planning, just knowing that you need to adjust the size of your meals based on what you’ve already consumed or plan to consume later in the day. An easy concept and will be especially helpful going into the holidays when we all have more “feasts” to plan around.
Matt,
I saw that website too and thought it looked like Brad… shameful.
I like this strategy and come to think of it my setup is similar – medium, small, large.
Dave
So, do you work on about 2000 calories a day to maintain your composition or is that enough to build muscle as well?
I like these ideas but I still need to work out how many calories are in a particular meal…. or am I obsessing too much?
I liked it. So much useful material. I read with great interest.
Great, simple idea. Over the last couple of days I’ve been experimenting with eating a few snacks and then a relatively big dinner, or a couple of small meals and dinner. So this is in line with what I’ve been tinkering with. Christie’s idea of a bank account is excellent, as well. I tend to eat more over the weekend, and really look forward to eating less on Monday! lol.
Brad,
i usually eat medium meal everytime i eat, but i do 3 times fasting a week. how do you think?
Before I try this approach, what kinds of snacks would you recommend?
Snacks depend on the person.
For me, snacks mean coffee, the occasional donut, and finishing my daughters cheerios…
To other people it might mean a brownie, or a handful of almonds.
really completely depends on the person.
B
easy loss weight…
I have been following up on this blog for a while and I find it very impressive. I plan to add it to my rss feeds….