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You have it backwards. You eat more for 2 days.


But in order for it to be effective (and it is DAYUM effective) you have to calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and get your daily caloric intake figured. Otherwise you're just eatting.

With zig zag dieting, as you reduce your caloric intake and increase your caloric burn, your body fat percentage drops correspondingly. But so does your BMR. Then, to force your BMR back to a normal level, you begin eating normally again for a brief period.

What happens is your body fat level begins to climb back up again, but not as high as it was at the beginning. Then when you lower your caloric intake again, your body fat goes down again. Eat normally again, and up goes the body fat again. Except not so high as it was before. This process continues until your body fat percentage is at healthful levels.

By zigzagging your caloric intake like this, you allow periodic BMR adjustments to take place, bringing it back to a level that corresponds to your new (lower) bodyweight. Then it's easy to begin losing fat again–and again. If you simply try going down, down, down in body fat, your BMR never has a chance to adjust, and your fat loss efforts become harder and harder until you binge out in frustration and get fat again.

Zig Zagging will help you get over or avoid the phenomenon of plateas, in which you lose several pounds of fat, then stop losing. When most people hit a plateau, they normaly reduce their caloric intake, which is wrong. Of course we now know that this just adds to the problem by further dropping the BMR. Zigzag your calories up, and your BMR will be readjusted higher to burn more calories.