EAT QOD
QOD is medical slang for every other day. The QOD Diet, created by kidney specialist Dr. John T. Daugirdas, advocates a strict, calorie reduced diet on alternating days with a regular diet. This diet provides recipes and meal plans to support those days when you are dieting. It emphasizes mini-meals and does not allow bingeing.
Foods Emphasized: Nothing is really restricted or encouraged; you may eat what you like on ‘full meal’ days
Foods Discouraged: Desserts are frowned upon and so is binge eating
Premise and Guidelines: Quaque Other Die, a Latin-based term meaning every other day, is the basis for the diet’s acronym. Physicians typically use it in medical shorthand to indicate patients are to take their medication every other day. The Eat QOD Diet is touted as a quick weight-loss strategy that works because you only eating full meals every other day. On the QOD day, you should only consume 300-400 calories. On your regular days you may eat whatever you want within reason– except that binge eating is forbidden.
On days when you eat normal calorie consumption, desserts should be limited to one per day. This seems it may be unrealistic, as after the day of calorie restriction, most dieters would be more inclined to binge. This type of dieting could create a negative relationship with food, and making the diet a stumbling block instead of a more natural lifestyle adjustment. Dieters on this program admit that their weight can fluctuate by 5-6 lbs as your body burns and creates glycogen stores. Although the diet claims that by using the alternate method you can prevent your metabolism from kicking into starvation mode and preserving calories, weight variation of 5-6 lbs doesn’t sound healthy for your metabolism. This diet could be a real juggling act; something you could probably do on your own, and burn more calories!