This seems like a good approach in that you get long fasts and also don't have big "feast" blowout every day. I am currently trying something like the "Every other day diet" aka JUDDD diet except I don't eat "whatever you want" on the "up" or high calorie day but do eat carbs. Seems to be working. The idea is to switch on the SIRT1 gene also known as the "skinny gene." I have tried the Warrior Diet for several years on and off with a 20 hour fast and 4 hour eating window but it did not really work--and I was kind of baffled given the reasoning behind the diet. But the reason it did not work, as I am reading elsewhere, was the opposite of what I might have guessed: likley the problem was not that I fasted too long, for 20 hours, but that I did not fast long enough. The "every other day" diet has longer fasts, more along the lines of 36 hours with one small, solid meal thrown in.
Currently I am doing one day of full-on eating, then fasting all night and the next complete day except for a solid but small dinner. As the diet mentions, while you are definitely hungry, you don't want to just chow down on the eating day despite what you might think. And maybe best of all you feel like you are off the roller-coaster of constant eating and frequent meals, however "healthy" the food in those meals may be. You get off the up-down blood sugar loop, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, caused by excessive insulin output by too-frequent eating.
Overall the idea is that while you can't just starve yourself all week, some people may really need to stretching out fasting times longer than 20 hours to give their body the "signal" for the SIRT1 gene to kick in. In a "hard loser" like myself, that may be what it takes!
Every other day diet
http://www.eoddiet.com/
Alternate day fasting
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/06/08/alternate-day-fasting.aspx
Here's a good FAQ
http://juddd.livejournal.com/44295.html
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