Top 10 Diet Rule Experiment: How To Tell If a Diet Will Work For You
By Brad Pilon, MS

www.eatstopeat.com
If you and I went to the local magazine stand and scanned the covers of the fitness magazines we would find dozens of ‘weight loss’ rules.

In fact we could spend the rest of the week reading magazines about the latest greatest weight loss tricks many of which may actually work for someone. But realistically there’s just no way you could actually follow ALL of them. So how do you know which ones are right for you?

The easy answer is you have to decide which rules fit best for YOUR life and then try to stick to just one or two that will make the most sense for you and have the most benefit.

This may be the first time in your life you become a scientist, and your experiment is you. Here’s what you do…

Browse any of the popular magazines, blogs, websites or anywhere you like to get fitness information. Read up on the diet and weight loss tips and tricks, these could be simple changes like not drinking calories, or a bigger philosophy like limiting the amount of carbs that you eat.

Make a top 10 list of diet strategies you’d like to try, and that sound doable to you. At this point add one new diet strategy to your life for two weeks. Record your bodyweight at the beginning of the two weeks and again at the end. If you haven’t lost any weight this strategy doesn’t work (for you). Discard it and move on to the next one.

This is the simplest way to tell if something will work for YOU. If the strategy you picked sounds like a good idea but seems too difficult for you to manage then it’s simply not a good fit for you in this stage of your life. If it worked for your friend but not for you that’s ok, there will be one that works just for you, this is why you make a top 10 list and try each of them, one at a time.

Let’s suppose you find one that works over a two week period and you don’t want to stop. That’s fine, just add the next one in the list, if you can handle more than one strategy at once more power to you and you’ll probably lose fat even faster. My guess is that sticking to more than one or two rules will be almost impossible, so it will be pretty easy to tell which strategy is really working.

For me the simpler the diet is the better, (which is the main premise behind Eat Stop Eat).

Even when you are following the Eat Stop Eat lifestyle you can still use the top 10-diet rule as a way to guide how you eat on your ‘eat days’.

The top 10 diet rule experiment is the fastest way to find dietary habits that work for you – after all you’ll never know until you try.

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Brad Pilon is a nutrition professional with over eight years experience working in the nutritional supplement industry specializing in clinical research management and new product development. Brad has completed graduate studies in nutritional sciences specializing in the use of short term fasting for weight loss.

His trademarked book Eat Stop Eat has been featured on national television and helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat without sacrificing the foods they love. For more information on Eat Stop Eat, visit www.eatstopeat.com

The  “5 Common Myths That Are Preventing You From Losing Weight”

You’ve probably either heard of them or actually bought into them yourself.
These terribly counter-productive myths are:

MYTH #1 – Low Calorie Diets Work
The Truth: You can’t lose weight by starving yourself because your metabolism will detect that you are starving and adjust itself by burning fewer calories.  Prolonged low calorie diets will cause your body to hold on to fat energy for survival instead of burning off the fat.  Needless to say, this really kills your metabolic rate.
Plus, if you eat less calories, you will end up battling hunger throughout the day. You may be able to keep it up for a week or two, but soon you will lose control and binge, setting you back to square one.

MYTH #2 – Low Fat Diets Work
The Truth: Studies show that people buying expensive “low fat” foods end up eating much more of that food because they believe it’s low fat. But in reality, you will gain more weight because you lose control. Many people think “It’s low fat, I can have a couple more!”

Low fat diets are also not recommended because there are some fats that you actually need to eat and are essential for healthy weight loss.

MYTH #3 – Low Carb Diets Work
The Truth: Low carb diets make you feel miserable because your body needs a certain amount of carbs for energy.  You end up feeling drained and unable to sustain your normal activity level.  Plus, low carb diets are not balanced and are therefore unhealthy long term.

MYTH #4 – Expensive Popular Diet Programs Work
The Truth: Studies show that even programs like Weight Watchers™ have a 97% recidivism rate. That means that once their members lose weight, they revert back to their old habits again and ultimately regain the weight. The classic yo-yo diet.

You have to pay to be involved and the process is extremely slow. Many people only see a 2-3 pound weight loss per month! That rate will zap your enthusiasm, motivation, and commitment and lead to gaining the weight back faster than you lost it.

MYTH #5 – You Should Stick With The Same Exercise Routine Each Month
The Truth: If you do the same exercise routine each month (such as walking to work), eventually your body will adjust and your results will gradually diminish.  Many people refer to this as a plateau or “hitting the wall.”  To keep getting fantastic results, you need to alternate your routine after a certain period of time.

Now That You Know What Doesn’t Work,
Let Us Show You What Does…

The Truth About Diets – Revealed!
Have you ever wondered how some “lucky” people can eat just about anything and never put on any weight?  Wouldn’t you like to be able to do that yourself?

The key to losing weight in not eating foods you don’t like, spending countless hours in the gym or starving yourself. That simply leaves you miserable.

The secret to losing weight is to increase your metabolism in an effective way that will allow you to continue losing weight even while you rest!

Your BMR, or basal metabolic rate (metabolism), is the energy (measured in calories) expended by the body at rest to maintain normal bodily functions.  This continual work by the body makes up about 60-70% of the calories we use (“burn” or expend) throughout the day.  By strategically speeding up your BMR, you will burn about 2/3 more calories than you would with today’s popular diet plans.

Our program will show you how.