Eat All Day Diet Review

Sounds too good to be true, but there's really nothing revolutionary about the Eat All Day Diet.

The concept of grazing - eating small meals at three to four hour intervals spread throughout the day - has long been recognised as a feature that many slim people exhibit.

Allied to a healthy, low calorie eating plan and you've the recipe for a safe, effective and satisfying diet that should help you to shed the pounds without constant hunger or a loss of energy.

So, let's see what makes this an attractive option for dieting without deprivation...

Eat All Day Diet Review - What is it...?

Now our Eat All Day Diet review would suggest that you won't be eating sugar and fat filled snacks, but choosing healthy, nutrient-rich snacks between meals, which can help you to lose weight.

You'll avoid the energy slumps that many diets cause mid-morning and mid-afternoon, you'll be less likely to snack on comfort foods late at night and you'll be free of the hunger pangs that spell diet death!

The result is that you'll lose weight whilst eating a lot of food and feeling full of energy.

Whilst you can choose what you eat each day, the key to the success of the diet is spreading your food out during the day, eating breakfast no later than one hour after you get up in the morning and never skipping meals.

A typical day would look something like this:

You simply choose from the large number of main meal and snack recipes that Foster suggests, all of which have a full calorie and nutrient breakdown, and construct a daily menu that gives you around 1,500 calories a day for a woman, more for a man.

The recipes are varied, delicious and in most cases easy to cook, cheap and family friendly.

For instance, how does a breakfast of blueberry and lemon pancakes sound? Or what about Nutty Passion Fruit Yogurt?

Lunch could be baked vegetable frittata, with Cheesy Lentil Pie for dinner and a snack of Prawn, Mango and Avocado Wraps as a snack.

Whilst generally comprising healthy, lower fat foods, this isn't a diet that excludes any food groups and you can eat carbs, some fat and even a little bit of sugar.

The key is balance and timing - just don't skip any meals or snacks!

So far, so good, but how does it work?

Eat All Day Diet Review - How Does it Work...?

The diet is based on a number of scientific studies. One study that is quoted in the book found that people who eat at least four times a day are 45% less likely to be overweight than people who eat three times or less a day.

Now there's a growing body of evidence that would suggest that eating smaller meals more frequently throughout the day is an effective weight loss and weight management strategy.

The theory is that by doing so, you speed up your metabolism so that you burn more calories during the day.

The problem with dieting is that your body equates it with starvation and responds in several ways.

It slows down your metabolism and burns muscle, which is responsible for most of the calories you burn each day. In this way your body conserves energy and protects its body fat reserves.

Leaving too long a gap in between meals excacerbates this effect.

The Eat All Day Diet aims to alter the balance between your fat burning and fat storing hormones.

The stress hormone cortisol is secreted when food is scarce, as when there's a long gap between meals.

Cortisol converts spare calories to body fat, a valuable energy store for when food is scarce.

When food is in plentiful supply, there's no need for your body to secrete so much cortisol.

Lowering cortisol levels is also important as it reduces your body's insulin production.

Insulin converts excess blood sugar into fat and works in conjunction with cortisol as a fat storing hormone.

By eating small amounts of food frequently you maintain your blood sugar levels, reducing the amount of insulin your body produces and the likelihood of calories being converted to body fat.

Eating small amounts of food frequently has also been shown to stimulate the release of another hormone called leptin.

Leptin is secreted after eating and acts as an apetite supressant. Eat more often, the theory goes and you'll find it easier to control your apetite.

So, does our Eat All Day Diet review conclude that it works...?

Eat All Day Diet Review - The Bottom Line...

Even though the science behind it isn't conclusive, it's pretty obvious that if you eat nutrient-dense, filling food every few hours you'll be less likely to feel hungry and snack or overeat.

Whatsmore, you'll be more satisfied on a psychological level - you're hardly likely to feel deprived and prone to a binge if you're constantly eating and feel full.

Foster claims that you'll lose up to 14lbs in six weeks, which isn't unrealistic at a safe level of 1-2lbs a week.

The only slight criticism I'd have is that there could be a little more emphasis on exercise.

Otherwise, our Eat All Day Diet review would conclude that this book is a winner and highly recommended as a healthy eating plan that you could quite comfortably follow for life!

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