| Alternate day calorie restriction diets are all the rage | | | | ingest. This will help facilitate faster weight loss |
| in 2010. Alternate day diet blogs are popping up | | | | according to the creators of this alternate day diet |
| everywhere. This article will tell you about the | | | | plan. |
| different alternate day duets and how they work. | | | | Up Day Down Day Diet |
| More importantly, you will find out how well they | | | | This diet takes the Qod Diet a little farther because it |
| may work for you. | | | | does not require using so many supplements and |
| What Exactly Are Alternate Day Diets? | | | | potions to help with weight loss. It starts with the |
| This type of diet is based upon "calorie shifting" | | | | induction phase where you are on "Up Days and |
| principles. Calorie shifting is a scientifically proven | | | | Down Days" (sounds familiar right?). During induction |
| method of losing weight by eating more calories one | | | | you will be restricted to 500 calories and you are not |
| day and less the next, The diets we will examine | | | | as constrained by sodium and potassium. This makes |
| here follow these principles, but do so in different | | | | the diet a little easier than the QOD. On down days |
| ways. The biggest advantage of eating this way is | | | | you are allowed to eat regularly as long as you don't |
| the effect it has on your metabolism. By making your | | | | "purposely over eat" |
| body think it is not dieting, your metabolism will | | | | That last statement is a little more ambiguous and |
| continue running highly and your weight loss will | | | | tough when you are starving yourself the day |
| happen faster and for longer periods. All of these | | | | before. |
| diets require some exercise, but they can all be | | | | After the induction phase you go to the maintenance |
| considered cardio free diets. | | | | phase where your down days are eating 50% of |
| Below are descriptions of the most popular | | | | your normal eating routine. |
| alternative day fasting diets: | | | | The Every Other Day Diet (EODD) |
| QOD Diet | | | | The EODD goes even further towards the ultimate |
| The QOD Diet is a diet program based on a book | | | | alternate day diet. The EODD has different phases |
| that is all about on days and off days. On your "On | | | | like the Up Day Down Day Diet, but they work the |
| Days" you are allowed to eat fairly regularly, but you | | | | same in each phase. The reason this diet is more |
| must watch your sodium and potassium intake. On | | | | refined is that it incorporates the SNAPP Eating Plan |
| your "Off Days" you are relegated to eat only 500 | | | | which tells you exactly what to eat. So on "Burn" |
| calories and only 200 of them are allowed to come | | | | days you eat exactly what the SNAPP Plan tells you. |
| from protein. Again you are asked to limit sodium and | | | | On "Feed" days you can eat pizza, hamburgers etc. |
| potassium. | | | | as long as it is during the times outlined in SNAPP. |
| On top of that you are asked to take supplements | | | | The rest of the meals you eat whats told in the plan. |
| and protien powders to help regulate what you | | | | |