Every Other Day Diet (EODD) Review
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In this article I review The Every Other Day Diet Plan (EODD), which promises to shed pounds of fat while allowing you to eat your favorite foods every other day. We actually purchase and read every diet plan we review, so feel free to ask us questions in the comments section at the end of the review. The Every Other Day Diet (EODD) is a web-based diet plan, which means that once you’ve purchased the diet you’ll receive a user name and password that gives you access to the EODD Diet Guide, bonuses and tools.
What You Get:
The Every Other Day Diet (EODD) includes:
- The Every Other Day Diet Guide eBook (118 pages)
- The Radical Fat Loss Blueprint (116 pages)
- 30 Days of Free Email Coaching
- Unlimited membership to Jon’s Fitness Member’s Support Forum
- Jon Benson’s weekly newsletter to keep you motivated
- Free monthly teleseminars with special fitness guests
Plus six additional bonus eBooks no additional cost:
- Perfect Posture
- Cholesterol Lies
- NaturaPause (menopause guide)
- Skinny Mini-Meals Recipe Book
- Female Power
- The No Struggle Plan
You’ll also be offered the optional upgrade of Jon’s 7 Minute Body eBook. While the 7 Minute Body workout is a great compliment to the EODD eating plan, it is also very intense. If intense workouts aren’t your thing, you may be better off using a milder exercise plan with the EODD diet. We recommend you read our brief review of 7 Minute Body at the end of this review before adding this upgrade.
The Every Other Day Diet: The Basics
The EODD focuses on two major diet concepts that work together: interval eating and the SNAPP System of Eating. Both concepts are summarized below:
1) Interval Eating – This is the central concept of the Every Other Day Diet plan, where you alternate your caloric intake every other day, alternating between what the author terms ‘Burn Days’ and ‘Feed Days’.
Here’s a rough outline of how interval eating works. First, you determine the calories you require for weight loss, using an online calculator that the author gives you. Then your first day of eating is a Burn Day: on this day you eat unprocessed, smaller meals, five times a day. The Burn Day is pretty calorie restricted, and gives you about 70% of your calories required to lose weight. For example, if you need 1,500 calories per day to lose weight, on the Burn Day you’d only eat about 1,000 calories.
The second day is a Feed Day, where you eat pretty much the same plan as the Burn Day, except that you are allowed to eat whatever you want at the lunch time meal. For example, you could eat lasagne, a burger and fries, or whatever you can eat reasonably within a half hour period. (In other words, no going back to a buffet three times and dragging out lunch). On your Feed Day you might consume 1,900 calories, but the bulk of those calories will come at lunch time.
After two days, you start all over again. Using alternating Burn Days and Feed Days your total caloric intake for the week will still come out low enough so you’ll lose weight. For example, if you need to normally eat 1500 calories per day, to lose weight, you would still arrive at those 1,500 calories per day when averaged out over the week.
The obvious question here is, since calorie restriction is central to this plan, how do you track your caloric intake? That’s where the SNAPP System of Eating comes in.
2. The SNAPP System of Eating – The SNAPP acronym refers to the diet plan where you eat five meals per day, and where your calories are automatically restricted. The SNAPP plan also allows you to easily memorize the meal schedule, by using the letters in SNAPP.
Let’s look at the meal plan. We don’t want to divulge too much, but for example, the S stands for a balanced Shake, which is your first meal of the day, and has a balanced recipe included. The rest of the letters signify foods that you’ll eat for the remaining four meals of the day. Most of the five meals are whole, unprocessed foods, except for the ‘cheat’ lunchtime meals on the Feed Days, where you can have whatever you like.
Next, we look at the portion or calorie control that SNAPP offers. Rather than counting calories, the author gives you a few calculations that you memorize. For example, let’s say your average meal is 200 calories, and one of the meals includes nuts. The author tells you to measure the nuts just once, so going forward you automatically know how many nuts you can eat during that meal. Of course, all of his calculations tie to your particular caloric weight loss requirements.
Putting it all together – The important features of the plan are its ease of use and its flexibility. When you combine the interval eating and the SNAPP system, your metabolism remains at its’ optimal fat burning level, while allowing you to enjoy some of your favorite foods every other day.
The EODD Bonuses:
There are six bonus eBooks included in the EODD package, plus the Radical Fat Loss Blueprint. They aren’t written by the author, as has partnered with various fitness and weight loss experts who have each written one of the books. That being said, they do bring excellent nutritional and fitness information, and complement the EODD plan.
I also read through the Radical Fat Loss Blueprint, which the author did write. It’s a separate diet for the super committed – those who want to lose 21 pounds in 21 days, and are willing to commit to a radical dietary and fitness plan in order to accomplish this goal. The author warns against misuse of this plan, and recommends it be followed only every so often as it can be hard on your body to lose that much weight that quickly.
Pros:
- Easy to follow SNAPP System of Eating; no calorie counting but still get results
- Interval eating gives dieters the opportunity to eat favorite foods every other day
- Email support included, large number of free bonuses
- Credible author: Well known in the diet industry, also partners with 3 experts
- Maintenance version of the plan is designed for long term lifestyle
Cons:
- Every other day your calories are restricted to an extra low level
- Some carb restriction as well as sugar, alcohol, processed foods
EODD Diet is right for you if
You appreciate the science behind the newest diet industry trends and are looking for a diet that is a little ‘out of the box’. If you have a tough time on diets that restrict your favorite foods for long periods of time, the easy SNAPP system and alternating feed days may be a solution for you.
Our Take
Author Jon Bennet brings us an all-star lineup of fitness and health professionals in his Every Other Day Diet eBook, which he co-authors with Holly Rigby, CPT. Holly is the designer of the popular FitYummyMummy plan. John also brings in co-authors Daniel Topkis, M.S., and Dr. John Berardi.
You may have heard of Jon Bennet, as he is known for writing the bestseller Fit Over 40!, which he co-authored with fitness expert Tom Venuto. Jon’s own personal success is impressive, as well. His interest in fitness and weight loss began with himself, as he was a self-proclaimed “fatty.” He shows un-retouched Before and After shots of himself which demonstrate that he lives by example. Jon Bennet is over 40 years old and is in fantastic shape!
If you are looking for the newest, nutritionally-sound, fat burning results that the diet industry has to offer, while still enjoying your favorite foods every other day, the Every Other Day Diet is a solid diet program that we recommend you look at closer.
Review of The Fitness Guide, 7 Minute Body
7 Minute Body
So what’s in the guide? It starts with an in-depth discussion on the topic of psychophysiology – the power of visualization and hyper mind focus for top results. It then describes a history of the various traditional strength trainer’s methods, which run 45-90 minutes long. Finally, the book discusses several studies which prove that a modified high-intensity, short-interval strength-training workout can give you the same or better results as traditional, lengthy workouts.
If you want to follow a disciplined plan, (which even uses a stop watch in its structure), you could effectively cut your workout time in half or less by using ’7 Minute Body’. It is a very solid value, as it includes pictures of each recommended exercise, as well as a link to videos to help you use proper form. Interval training is used by most top athletes as it can help you get in great shape quickly. If you’re unfamiliar with interval training and workouts, 7 Minute Body is a good introduction and combined with EODD might be the perfect diet and exercise program for you.
Thank you for this review. It’s very useful information to have in making a buying decision. Jon Benson is great, but I don’t think I would want to do this kind of limited caloric intake.
I think the diet sounds fantastic, I am seriously considering going on it. Indeed, I like the science and the psychology of it. It is important to note that it is caloric restrictive, which every (true, medical & physiological) expert will tell you is need for weight loss. This diet just does it in a smart way. If you can’t go a day without pigging out you have deeper problems.
Hi Frank, thanks for your comment. EODD is a very smart diet plan and Jon Benson did his homework before designing it. If you do use it, we’d love to hear how well it works for you. Good luck!