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What I changed about EODD 2.0 SNAPP!

By Sarah,
http://www.trainwithsarah.com

Jon Benson wrote EODD. He then listened to his readers and clients and changed it to EODD 2.0 SNAPP! which is a … well, it’s a snap! However, no plan is perfect; no one plan is going to be the plan for everyone. Jon therefore told the readers of EODD 2.0 to feel free to adapt the plan to suit them, but more importantly, to submit the information of what they changed to him, telling him not only what they did, but why and also how it worked for them in terms of fat burning and muscle building.,

Let me start by saying that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Plans in the EODD 2.0 e-book. Jon provides 4 separate nutrition plans, and most people will have enough choices just with those. What made me change a few things, was the seasonal temperatures first of all.

Living in Canada, and starting SNAPP at the beginning of the cold season (temperature wise, not illness), I quickly found that the cold shake first thing in the morning wasn’t going to cut it for me. After a week, I started craving something warm, anything! I did want to stick to the SNAPP! plan and sequence of meals, so I therefore devised a plan for a warm shake …

I’ve never seen any recipe for warm shakes anywhere, so I had to figure that one out on my own. Protein powder put into something warm will clump and curdle, not very appetising to say the least. But there was a way around it:

1.     1.   I warm up 250 ml of rice milk (or skim milk)

2.     2. In the blender, I put 2 Tbsp blueberries, 1 tsp psyllium husk, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 Tbsp Salba seeds, 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder and 1 scoop protein powder (23 gr protein) with a little warm water (because the berries are frozen).

3.     3. Blend up the ingredients in point 2, then add the warmed milk

This works great because the warm liquid is best for the psyllium husk to swell and do its’ fiber-work, and in addition I get the hot chocolate taste and a warm start to a cold day, without the protein curdling as the warm liquid is added slowly while the blender turns.

I do my weight training at 9 am, for now it’s Jon’s 7 Minute Muscle program because I really enjoy it, I’m not bored with it yet, and it’s giving me the results I want at the moment – maintaining muscle mass rather than adding any more until I’ve reduced the bodyfat as far as I want to and can see where I could need more muscle definition.

I stick to the meal and ingredient order of the SNAPP program during the morning, mid-day and afternoon with very little adjustment made to the original program. Supper is easy as well … lean protein, veggies and/or salad, spices, herbs … no problem with this at all, nothing I’ve felt the need to adjust here either.  There are simple calculations in the e-book as to how many nuts, how much protein you should have per day according to your weight, and once you know that there is really nothing to it at all. A real snap!

Since bed-time is about 2½ hours later, I rarely have anything after supper. If I do, it’s either a few baby carrots with a little ranch dressing, or I take a shake-sickle if I feel like something sweet (1/8 of a protein shake).

A tip on ranch dressing. I haven’t found a light version, so I either mix it 50-50 with 0% fat yoghurt,  or 75-25 with skim milk/ rice milk.

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A couple of weeks into the new SNAPP! Challenge, I found that  I had to change the pace a little because I actually gained weight keeping the extreme SNAPP! plan.  I therefore switched to three days Extreme SNAPP Plan pure, and three days with a little more food; alternating these plans every other day.  Sundays usually follow a pattern of a slightly more “traditional” breakfast as I make either waffles/pancakes (with protein) or lean bacon/sausages – never both – and the rest of the day is usually following the SNAPP plan.   

When we do go out, it’s mostly Friday night – either family meal which is “healthy” with vegetables, except when they decide to cook with honey and brown sugar, even the veggies and salad dressings, so we limit our portions to a polite minimum. Otherwise we sometimes go to a local restaurant and have just the salad, no rice or potatoes, and bring half the serving of protein home in a doggie-bag because restaurant portions are just too big on this side of the Atlantic!

Having made these minor switches in the EODD 2.0 SNAPP! program, I have dropped to the lowest weight I’ve seen on the scales in over 15 years – and for information: all the dropped weight has come from excess bodyfat. Ladies, if you are like me, you may have trouble zipping up knee-high winter boots … I’ve been condemned to wearing ankle boots that fit, or knee-highs that were too large in the foot because of my calves. Well, this winter I’m zipping ‘em up again and loving it! You may have heard an interview Jon and I did some weeks ago, where I said I’d dropped a shoe size. This is not a joke, and I wish I’d have taken a photo of my feet not fitting into my old size 38 shoes some months ago, yet fitting perfectly today. Some due to fat accumulated on the feet, some due to water retention around the ankle and foot; either way, it’s all gone.

Looking and feeling elegant and/or sexy isn’t just about that “pooch”, it’s also about double chins, swollen feet and legs, ham-sized upper arms; and I had them all! The sleeves of my blouses are no longer tight, I can wear turtle neck tops without looking like I have no neck, and like I said, the shoes are back on my (almost) dainty feet. As a bonus, that “pooch” is all but history, and it will be by the end of the SNAPP! Challenge at the end of January 2009.

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Frankly, you owe it to yourself to check out the EODD 2.0 SNAPP! e-book. It can be used as is, or you can adapt it to suit your lifestyle and aspirations. How many plans are there where the author tells you to make changes and let him know so he can implement those in the next edition of his book? This, I believe, is the only one; and to top it off, the author has himself been overweight and is still watching his nutrition like a hawk. He was where you are, he is where you’re going – he is where you are if you’re already lean, and knows how hard it is to stay there … a real-life person with the same issues and joys we all face.

Sarah CPT for AtoZfitness.com