What Is: The Every Other Day Diet?

Jon Benson created the Every Other Day Diet (EODD) as a way to have your cake and eat it too - literally. Diets involve a lot of sacrifice (you'll pry chocolate out of my cold, dead hands), but what if you could eat your favorite foods regularly and still shed unsightly fat?

Says Jon:

Diets involve deprivation. My "diet" allows me to eat my favorite foods several times a week -- burgers, pizza, desserts -- all at VERY specific times so they actually help me burn more fat (by regulating leptin receptors, restoring muscle sugar, known as glycogen, and by increasing metabolic rate).

In this case, timing is everything. And obviously you cannot just eat junk food every other day, all you want, and lose weight. But the great thing about EODD is that you CAN eat your favorite foods and USE them to lose more fat than normal. You eat less of them, of course, but you never feel deprived of any food for any length of time. This keeps the mind focused and makes dieting.... well, "easier."

The EODD is fully supported by members of Jon's team, with weekly emails, e-coaching and teleseminars.

Not all diets fit with each person, so Jon developed a "male" and "female" version of the Every Other Day Diet. Let's face it, men gain, carry and lose weight very differently from women. Men get a "beer belly" and pudgy face, while women carry weight in the abdomen, hips and thighs. Men also require a higher caloric intake than women. It's essential to have a diet suited to the person - one size does not fit all!

If you look at Jon's site, you'll find a series of helpful videos to get you started, even before you commit to the program. One of them is called the "caveman trick":

Cavemen ate a lot of meat - fat and lean - but didn't eat the same amount of the same foods every day. The "caveman trick" isn't about Atkins - it's about varying your daily caloric intake, and varying your diet. So the Every Other Day Diet requires you to eat fatty foods one day, and lean the next. Hence, every other day!