The Low Down

Eat Stop Eat is the work of Canadian nutritionist Brad Pilon. Brad has been working in nutrition since 2000 and in that time has become concerned with what is being given as diet advice.

Through his own and others research Brad has rediscovered the benefits of fasting. Not only in giving your body a break from digesting food, but also other benefits like increased hormone release.

You can read more about it on the Eat Stop Eat website.

My Experience

When I first stumbled across Eat Stop Eat on the Fitness Black Book site I was pretty skeptical. At the time I was just realising that the 6 meals a day diet was rubbish and was starting to eat larger servings but in less meals.

I had already come across fasting style diets when I read about the Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler. I had considered trying it out but was a little too scared because

it was so different from my then bodybuilding diet.

However, being that this was the second book on the matter of fasting I had come across I began to think that maybe there was something to it. So I went ahead and bought it, after all what’s $40 for a book right? [Read more...]