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 by Ori Hofmekler

The Warrior Diet is based on a daily feeding cycle of “undereating” during the day and “overeating” at night.  The “Undereating Phase” during the day maximizes the Sympathetic Nervous System’s (SNS) fight or flight reaction to stress, thereby promoting alertness, generation of energy, fat burning and the capacity to endure stress.

The “Overeating Phase” at night maximizes the Parasympathetic Nervous System’s (PNS) recuperation effect on the body, thereby promoting calming down, relaxation, digestion and the utilization of nutrients for repair and growth.  This feeding cycle stimulates the production of cellular factors such as Cyclic AMP or GMP, which stimulate hormone synthesis and fat burning during the day, as well as protein synthesis and growth during the night, respectively.
 

Most people in America can’t keep a diet. We are the most successful nation on earth. It puzzles me how millions of intelligent people who manage with great skill their professional careers can’t manage their own diet. The statistics are staggering. Diet related blood sugar problems including diabetes, impotency, infertility, high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases are at an all time high. Notwithstanding all the data on nutritional science and health, most diets fail.

Men and women suffer from Stubborn Fat related problems (the fat that is almost impossible to remove). Moreover, diet related mental issues such as eating disorders, food phobias, guilt and feelings of failure lead people into depression and despair. Women are of special concern. Social pressures and unrealistic models for self-image and obsessions with body weight lead many women to follow any fad diet that promises a quick fix. Human common sense, logic and instincts that are necessary for all other life activities all but disappear when it comes to diets.

Common knowledge says that diets fail because of a lack of self-esteem on behalf of those who try dieting. The truth is far from that, as I will soon argue. Diets fail because they’re wrong. Mainstream diet gurus tell you to eat many small meals during the day. They tell you not to overeat, undereat or to skip a meal. They tell you to avoid meats, dairy, bread, caffeine and chocolate. I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Why Diets Fail

Diets fail for two major reasons:

- Most diets ignore the biological time factor
- Most diets disregard human instinct

Let’s examine these two topics in more detail.

Most Diets Ignore The Biological Time Factor

Eating at the wrong time interferes with the body’s endocrine and nervous systems. The three to six meals a day plan blocks the body’s ability to detoxify, burn fat and ignite energy during the daily hours, at a time when the body needs it most. During the day the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) dominates. This is the part of the Autonomic Nervous System that regulates the fight or flight mechanism that enables you to react under stress. The SNS keeps you alert, focused and agile. This is the time when your adrenals are high and most of your energy should come from fat burning.

Eating full meals during the day (such as breakfast or lunch) antagonizes the SNS by over activating another part of the Autonomic Nervous System called the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS). The PSNS regulates digestion, elimination and other metabolic pathways that slow you down. Daily meals block your brain barrier. The fewer nutrients that reach your brain, the more sleepy and sluggish you feel. Energy crashes, headaches and low blood sugar are all common symptoms of post-daily meals.

The common idea that you need food for fuel during the day is misleading to say the least. The truth is that while undereating during the day, the body is forced to use fat storage as a source of fuel for maximum metabolic efficiency. Eating during the day will stop this process and block the body’s ability to detoxify. The removal of toxins and waste away from the body is imperative for your health. Detoxification is the number one factor that determines how young you look.

Most Diets Disregard Human Instincts

Most diets disregard human survival instincts and therefore make no biological sense. Instincts keep us alive. Among many essential body functions, they regulate the ability to control healthy eating habits. It is the instinct to survive that gives us a real sense of hunger. A primal hunger for food to survive is a component that is missing from most diets, which are based on three to six meals per day. The body reacts instinctively by adaptation to life stressors. Undereating forces a natural adaptation of the body to times when food is not around. Under this condition, the body reaches peak potential to assimilate nutrients while acquiring a real sense of hunger for food to survive.

Any diet that saturates your body with too many meals, will deny you from having this primal sense of hunger. Without it, you lose your ability to manage instinctual eating habits. Without primal hunger, people don’t have any real sense of what to eat, how much and when to stop eating.

What is the Right Diet?

Minimizing your daily eating to mostly fruits & veggies, coffee or tea, and eating as much as you want from all food groups at night

By now you probably know where I’m going with this: The right diet is a diet that makes biological sense. A diet that is based on our primal need to cycle between undereating during the day and overeating at night. A diet that was followed by ancient peoples thousands of years ago. Nevertheless, a diet that is as effective for us today.

Our body isn’t biologically built to eat much during the day. Ancient people were naturally forced to cycle between periods of shortage in food supply and periods of prosperity. By doing so, human bodies adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to cycles of undereating and overeating. Follow it, and your body will be forced to activate a full spectrum of essential hormonal and enzymatic activities which otherwise won’t be activated. In other words, your body will be forced to redesign itself for a better metabolic efficiency. Eating at night as much as you want from all food groups will give you a feeling of full satisfaction with a great sense of freedom. Overeating at night and still losing weight sounds too good to be true but in this case, it isn’t. Overeating, in fact, increases metabolism. Historically night was the time to eat. Dining was a social event. Eating together was and still is a way of tightening social bonds. Night is the time to relax from the stress of daily activities. Following instinctual eating if nothing else will give you a great sense of being in control of the way you feel and the way you look.

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