Definition of diet: something short term. Because it’s used like 'I'm on a diet.' Like 'I'm on a trip.' Or 'I'm on a killing spree' so you come back from your trip/get your spree ended.
Alright the idea of this reverse diet is that you eat more, yes let me repeat: you eat more. ~5 meals a day. With exercises you maintain this lifestyle, until you are tired of it or decide to come off it. You stop and go back to 3 meals a day.
What happens is that now your body thinks that you are on a 'diet' and u are dieting eating 3 meals a day! Hence you might lose weight.
Disclaimer: I am no nutritionist, and I am just sharing my 'experience’. I eat 5 meals a day, but cause of work this past week, I did not have time to eat in between meals, and people told me I look smaller! This made me though of such theory!
The theory behind it
The athlete's diet
Many athletes eat like in 2hr intervals. Why do they do so? It is to provide a constant flow of energy. This is probably because they might have to perform at different times or they want to avoid injuries from lack of energy. Therefore, their body is constantly burning something to give them energy (metabolism increases).
Let us compare this with a regular diet one that I hear most often from peers.
· They skip breakfast (nothing to burn, hence body runs on 'low energy mode' )
· Feel hungry.
· Have lunch.
· Feel hungry around 4-5+ and bear with it until dinner. (body slows down again)
· Have dinner.
When you feel hungry, your body will adapt to it, burning less for energy, since they have to conserve it. They are not really smart to know what’s for dinner. So when you burn less, you have more surpluses. As your body is not an economy, surplus is not really a good thing.
So assuming that you consume a similar amount of calories from this diet, since you are eating small regular meals and your body is burning more, you are burning more calories!
Summary:
1) Never skip breakfast – you want your body to start running ASAP
2) Eat small, regular meals – with around 2 hours intervals
3) Exercise, since you should feel energized throughout the day – no excuses
4) Eat properly, since this is still a diet.
Extra:
Taking Caffeine
They give you energy (so you will get off your butt and hit the gym!). However, those sensitive to caffeine should beware. I take a cup of GREEN TEA when I get to work with NO SUGAR, NO MILK.
Go google ‘Benefits of caffeine’ to find out more
Swapping brown rice
I think this is the biggest swap, I heard white rice gives you more crap. So it is better to take brown rice. Brown rice could be harder, but just use more water when cooking it! It tastes the same, and you get that extra skin which I personally like, as it makes chewing more fun!
My meals:
0715 Breakfast
0900 Breakfast 2
1200 Lunch
1600-1700 Tea break
1800 Tea break 2 (if gym)
2000 Dinner (protein shakes before and after if gym)
2200 Dinner (if I went to the gym)
