The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse for High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

by Ori Hofmekler

Book Overview

Reshape your body and mind by eating light during the day and filling up at night--the core tenet of this revolutionary nutrition program based on survival science.

Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution--to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583942009
• ISBN13: 9781583942000
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Blue Snake Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Warrior Diet: too much info without enough depth

I was looking forward to reading this book but I was left hungry for more in-depth information. I agree with the principles of the diet but I find the book lacking in science based information. It’s definitely not directed at women, which further disappointed me because I’m a very active woman (weightlifting and cycling) and it seems most standard diets are geared toward sedentary people. I was already doing OMAD and the book definitely gave me a few new insights and advantages to eating less frequently.

The Warrior Diet

I finished reading The Warrior Diet a few weeks ago, and it works. I have found that I did indeed get used to eating only one big meal a day and that my frame has gotten a lot more wiry, and my muscles are much more defined. The Warrior Diet is easy to read, and all the difficult terms are explained. It's not a difficult diet to follow at all because you are allowed to eat whatever you want (besides anything with refined sugars and any artificial stuff).

If You've Tried Everything Else, This Could Work

In the past, I haven't had much luck with diets. I'm usually looking to drop that extra ten pounds or so, but I've tried Atkins, South Beach and The Zone diets with little success. The Warrior Diet is different. By changing the times that I eat (along with dropping highly refined foods), I've made steady progress towards my desired weight while maintaining high energy. It took me a week or so to transition into the system of fasting during the day and feasting at night, but once I got used to it, I found it to be almost a matter of instinct. After just a few weeks, I'm starting to lose that stubborn belly fat and I don't feel like I'm starving all the time. I am also following the exercise guidelines. This isn't a "Lose Weight While you Sleep," plan and it isn't a magic pill. It's just another approach to eating that seems to make a lot of sense.

A Fantastic Return to Instinctual Eating

While I do understand that not everyone will enjoy this diet, or even benefit from it, in my life it has altered my health and energy dramatically. I have tried eating the "clean" bodybuilders diet for the last 2 years to put on size. I have done my cardio, intervals and slow paced mileage. I don't care about that anymore. I want to feel alive, primal, loving, and in tune. And for me this diet is a cornerstone of that lifestyle. I have never felt the need to write a review of a book, this is my first, and it deserves to be read at the least.

THE BEST - PERIOD

I've read the other reviews and really don't want to be negative, but I've just got to say that everyone's BODY is different!!!!!! Speaking for myself, I've been following the -guidelines- for a year and I've lost 60 pounds!!!! This is a basic common sense "diet." All he's saying is eat healthy, watch your portions and exercise. The nutritionist I saw before I started the diet said the same thing. Ori says in the book to eat something during the day if you're hungry!!!!! Its just that over time, you'll find that you don't need to eat as much. On the exercise front, I joined a gym and specifically go to Spinning classes which was recommended to me by a former U.S. Marine. I recommend this book as a guide because of what its done for me. The key thing to acknowledge is that every BODY is not the same. You should do what works best for you!!!

Well... This diet is fantastic

i made a review on this diet about a year ago. I dont know how to remove it, so ill add a positive review. It turns out i was doing the diet totally wrong and that is why i was losing muscular mass. I am currently following this diet and i am much leaner. Heres a tip to maximize weight loss: Before your "meal" make sure you do ANY kind of workout to promote digestion and anabolism. It really helps. The thing this book didnt touch on isa that you need to work out before your meal or it is possible the food will just turn into fat.