Set free the REAL you!

• Learn how to fool your body to keep it from switching into starvation mode.
• Regularly lower your glycogen stores to help you burn fat, and to avoid laying down new fat.
• Use the kidneys’ “salt secret” to markedly lower food intake without feeling woozy or washed out.
• Avoid problems linked to protein-rich ultra-low-carb diets
• Learn to identify your body’s specific food hungers.
• Enjoy the mental and spiritual benefits of periodic, comfortable, fasting

QOD is a term used by doctors from Latin/English to designate doing something every OTHER day (“Quaque Other Die”). In the QOD diet, Daugirdas, a physician, comes up with a plan where you eat most of your food every second day. On that day you eat well, but not to excess. On the days in between, you eat only 300-400 nonprotein calories, but you keep up your intake of key minerals, including sodium, potassium, and calcium, 60 g of high biologic value protein, as well as vitamins, to keep you feeling strong and well.

The goal of the diet is to fool your body a bit. By eating a normal amount of food every other day, your body does not think that you are going into starvation mode, and this keeps your body from turning down its energy-burning thermostat. This makes it easier to lose weight while only modestly restricting total average intake of calories.

The QOD diet allows a person to restrict their AVERAGE caloric intake, and yet not have to feel like they are constantly hungry or deprived of food. Daugirdas shows how the diet worked for him, and discusses the scientific thinking behind this new approach to dieting.