The reasons I stick with the WD...since 1999.

Right off the bat, sorry for not posting for a while...working for a living can be frustrating. Anyway, if anybody is interested why I stick to the Warrior Diet, I can sum it up in 3 reasons:
1) After 2 months on the WD, you will heal faster. Why? Simply because you're allowing the body to perform all it's functions without digestion getting in the way. By timing your meals properly, it also helps to shuttle all your food to the right places...microtrauma, enzymatic functions, protein synthesis.
2) Detoxification and prioritization: At the risk of sounding the same as reason #1, the body's priorities about how it conducts everyday actions is changed. Hormones and precursors, liver enzymes and blood pH change as the body gets a chance to detoxify. Which means for me that when I work out, the result is quality muscle - not muscle covered with fat that later I have to work off, but decent muscle. Eight pounds of muscle a year is much better than gaining 25 then having to diet to find out where you put it.
3) A great adjunct to lifestyle: I've been doing this since November 1999, made some mistakes, but what I learned kept me doing this since it only enhanced everything I'm getting out it. A lifestyle like the WD has to force you to look at your nutritional requirements and your exercise requirements. The first thing I learned is that nutrition is paramount to success with the WD. That means vitamins, antioxidants, protein intake...you find what works best for you, because you end up absorbing everything differently. You'll have to take my word for it, or I will be writing a novel by the time I'm done.
You NEED exercise to make the WD work...how can you manipulate all those hormones without taking advantage of them? I learned to do intervals instead of running continuously, plenty of sprints and faster running. It's not for everybody, but find something that gets some Lactic Acid going, and Growth Hormone will be your friend. Weight training is great too...I'm 44 now and exercise feels no different from when I was 19...wait, strike that...it feels better now since with experience comes wisdom (sometimes). Quite frankly, I like the free time at lunch too.
I'm hoping to generate some discussion here...the WD is not for everybody, that is, if your looking for shortcuts to losing weight. The work you put into it concerns discovering what timing you need for meals, supplements, food, rest. I like to think of it as a lifestyle change, and it has certainly worked for me.
I'm planning on resuming my regular comments to this site as time permits. Thanks.

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