What is eating QOD all about

• QOD means eating every mostly every other day
  (Q = every O = other, D = day).
• It is a new way to lose weight fast, but keep your sanity.
• With QOD diet, you limit food intake during your “OFF days” to 300 calories.
• QOD works because if you eat within reason during your “ON day”, your average caloric intake, which will be your (“ON day” calories + 300) divided by 2, will be low enough to lose weight.
• QOD is different from other conventional diets like the South Beach diet or the Atkins diet, although we also recommend limiting intake of carbs during the ON day, especially those containing fructose and also desserts.
• QOD diet may prevent or delay your body from going into starvation mode and from reducing your metabolic rate, though this remains to be proved.
• You choose foods during your OFF days to keep your sodium intake at 1500 mg/day, and your potassium intake at a similar level. Continued intake of sodium and potassium and some high-biologic-value protein during your OFF day helps keep you feeling strong and well during this day of mild fasting.
• You also need to take calcium supplements and multivitamins during both ON and OFF days, but especially during your OFF days.
• During your OFF days, you learn to break unhealthy eating habits (emotional eating, timeclock eating, or absent-minded snacking) and reacquaint your body with true hunger for specific foods.
• During your OFF days, you also give your body a rest, both metabolically and spiritually, and give yourself more time to pursue activities that interest you.
• Low calorie intake during your OFF days depletes your body's glycogen stores. This does two things: First, tt makes it easier for you to lose fat during your OFF day, overnight, and morning of your ON day, since normally the first place your body looks for energy when you lower food intake is your glycogen stores. Second, during your ON day, you start with depleted glycogen stores. So if you eat a bit too much during a given meal, the extra calories go to replete your glycogen stores instead of laying down body fat.