Success Stories


Hey Ori,

There are no words to express how much I appreciate everything you have done for me and my family's life. I started the warrior diet at the age of 17 and have been faithfully living the warrior lifestyle ever since. I am 23 now and have no intent of living any other way. By incorporating all of your magnificent products including the Warrior Whey and following CFT program, I have obtained astonishing results. I started at a weight of 120lbs and have increased my lean body mass to 170lbs all while never going above a 9% fat percentage. I feel stronger and more resilient than ever. It has been fun to see the improvement of all the top shelf products you sell. I have faithfully being purchasing all the kits for 6 years, I started back when Warrior Whey was called Warrior milk. The products have always been top quality, and when i felt it could not get any better, you and your team release an even more outstanding product. I have a burning passion for everything you and Defense nutrition do. I love influencing others by showing them the light of how positive this lifestyle is. My parents and several friends have now begun their warrior path in life. I run circles around kids younger than me who are on the high school basketball team. I am devoted to influencing others and living this way for the rest of my life. I have a whole lot of appreciation for your great inspiration, products and the magnificent gift of your knowledge i have been able to learn from. Warrior for life!

Best Regards,
Nick LoScalzo


Here is my story,

One day near the end of 2006, when I finally got the courage to step onto the scale I was schocked to see me weighing 93 kgs. And this with only 175 cm body height. At the time I already had many physical complains like, constipation, acute headaches at least once in a week, snoring at night, waking up tired every morning, sore joints and so on. My doctor found fat around my liver during a check up (although I never took alcohol at that time) and the health markers were not in good shape either for a 35 year old guy. I ate a lot of junk and fast food (chocolates, sweets, corn flakes, fruit yoghurts, crackers, chips) during the day. As for sports I played basketball for 2 hours once in a week but that didn't helped much to get on shape. I had to do something...



While searching for a way out I came upon an article saying that the enemy in our diet was sugar and mainly HFCS. That made sense to me and I decided to give up on all the sugar in my diet except for fruits. The results showed up quickly and I started to loose some weight. In the course of the next six months I was weighing around 85 kgs. But it stopped right there. I started jogging every other day for 30 min but hat only helped for another 2-3 kgs but that was all. However hard I tried I couldn't break the 80 kgs wall. While searching for a solution I came upon the Paleo Diet saying to get rid of the grains also. So I did that. That helped me to loose another 7-8 kgs. This time I hit the 76-77 kgs resistance. My body shape improved very much and I started to get compliments from all around. Many of the complains talked above started do disappear. I was on the right path but the there was no way to get rid of the stubborn belly fat and the constipation. Then finally 8 months ago I got onto the Warrior Diet and life style over Dr. Mercola's website. Fasting during the day, eating one meal at night and eating the right food when you eat to get full satisfaction was the key. You have to combine this with a 2-3 times week CFT... This was the path for reaching the best shape of my life at the age of 40. Belly fat gone, constipation gone and liver fat all gone thanks to Ori and his revolutionary Warrior Diet.

Thanks,
Murat Kuzey Yilmaz
Ankara, Turkey


Hi Ori,

I read your book when I was doing research for a fitness challenge I started in January. I was doing a fitness challenge on a bet with my sis that I could get ripped like the guys in the 300 movie. I think I won.



I stayed the same weight (~160, 5'10") but lost 2 inches on my waist (crazy for a skinny guy). I haven't measured my fat percentage yet. It was ~8% last december. The challenge started Dec 31st and Ended April 20th. 4 months.

Well, I thank you for writing clearly and simply. I was lost on so many different methods for zone, paleo, fasting, gaining mass, losing fat...

Thanks,
Emeka Okorafor


To the Warrior Diet Team,

I am an E-6 in the US Navy and currently an operator on a West Coast SEAL Team. I've been using your products and following the Warrior diet for about two years now, and just wanted to write to thank you. To begin with, the Warrior Diet supplements, the Essentials, Bars and Milk, are the only ones I trust. I know they work, I know they're clean, and nothing comes close to the taste. I feel so strongly about the products I have put my family on them.

Since I've been following the diet I have maintained what I call my proper "fighting" weight. Over the last few years I have veered from the diet, but always returned. I just don't feel right unless I'm following the basic guidelines of under-eating during the day with a main meal at night. When my job precludes me from eating a large main meal, I simply switch to small meals until I'm out of the field. In addition, your program has made sense of supplements, and brought balance to my daily diet and exercise program.

The philosophy of the Warrior diet is one that is close to my heart. In a society that is becoming ever more indulgent, the Warrior diet stands out as a set of balancing guidelines to proper eating and clean living. A Spartan lifestyle is a Warrior lifestyle. The Warrior diet isn't one of unnecessary deprivation. Rather, it's one of innate balance.

Finally, it's rare nowadays to find any business whose customers health and well being are truly a main focus. I am confident that the primary aim of the Warrior Diet Company is the health of its customers, and that translates to loyal customers. Thank you again for the incredible supplements, diet program, and unparalleled customer service.

Thanks,
Marc Withheld


I have been a conditioning, health, and nutrition coach for many years. I have learned from the best - Dr. Fred Hatfield, Charles Staley, and renowned fitness guru Paul Chek. During my career I have trained a number of very talented boxers, including four time world champion Greg Haugen, heavyweight contender Joe Hipp, Walter Wright from the TV show "The Contender", and former world middleweight champion Kenny Ellis. I have also worked with athletes in other sports, including professional PGA golfer Michael Putnam.

My hard won skills took a great leap forward when I began to study under Ori Hofmekler. I first leaned about Ori's programs, thoughts, and structure from his bestseller, "The Warrior Diet," which I loved. I have employed much of the knowledge in that book while doing personal training with my own clients. My excitement about Ori's work increased enormously when he helped me solve a client's difficult fat loss problem that absolutely had to be successfully addressed before his middleweight title fight. Ori was a great mentor thoughout the entire time. Afterwards, I flew down to LA to take his Controlled-Fatigue Training internship. This was a great eye opener for me, and Ori's hospitality was second to none, as well.

Now to the event that led me to write this letter. I have a new client, a boxer named Roger Cantrell, who, with a 12-0 record and 9 KOs, is one of boxing's hottest up and comers. A few weeks back Roger hired me to over see his conditioning for his upcoming bout. He was 20 pounds (that's right 20 pounds!) over his fighting weight. I immediately got on the phone with Ori and we designed a nutrition and conditioning program that helped Roger get ripped while at the same time shedding body fat.

We also followed the modified Controlled Fatigue Program (CFT) I learned while going through Ori's Level One internship. Ori added a few new wrinkles to his basic program and Roger not only lost the body fat but was stronger then ever before. The result speaks for itself. In the fourth round Roger knocked out his opponent with a savage array of punches he said he had never been able to do before.

Ori's was a great mentor for me during this time. Yes, perhaps I could of pulled it off myself, but why not tap into a great mind. Ori not only went out of his way to help me, but also gave his heart and soul to it as if he was doing it. The man is one of a kind. I am looking forward to learning even more about nutrition and conditioning from him in the years ahead.

Thanks for all your help and God bless

Thanks,
David Grisaffi
C.H.E.K. II
Corrective Exercise Kinesiologist II
Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach II
Golf Biomechanic
CFT Certification - Level I


... after finishing the three week weight loss program I was down 11 lbs. and my energy was through the roof. Now I was right in the middle of the holiday season with all the parties and events planned I was a little nervous but I had realize that I had learned that with the right combination of foods and with the addition of the Controlled Fatigue Training (CFT) this would not be an issue. I was able to knock off another 4 lbs. I enjoy the holiday season like never before.



Thanks Ori for answering all my nutrition and fitness needs I feel I am in the best shape of my life.


Thanks,
Carolyn Izzo-Feldman


With the Warrior Diet to My Very Best World Cup Season!

As a professional world cup sports competition climber, I am always curious about new knowledge - every training, nutrition or mental strategy that makes me stronger - I want to know it! One of my passions besides my sport is also, like Ori, writing and publishing books about training and nutrition in Europe. Unfortunately at present only in German. So admittedly - I am a book and news fanatic. I order new publications often before the delivery date and I have subscribed to all common health magazines. So you can imagine about how many "brilliant diet strategies" besides training and mental energy topics, I was informed very well of since my first book the "Peak Principle" was published in 2004. 95% of the miracle diets in these books, reports and studies, however, are not for me as a professional athlete, and are an absolute waste of time and energy.

But whoever wants to find gold should as well love the patient sinking in sand and soil. Nevertheless, at the beginning of 2005 I slowly started doubting if I would be able to find something really new and certainly also really useful. I was wrong, because in May suddenly an author named Hofmekler showed up in my private sports library. No, he had not only written one book but three on his revolutionary diet form! With one of them even a talented medical student will have some serious understanding problems. Finest science! Moreover, special squads of the U.S. army, world class athletes and sometimes even world champions of all kinds of strength and martial arts, decorated his reference pages. But what convinced me in the end were the pictures of the author himself. Was blood doping already possible for a long time? Had somebody used the DNA of Bruce Lee? Ori has perfect definition and muscle development - and this at an age of 56 years!

Maximum Power all over the year with a minimum of Body Fat

World Cup climbers are necessarily experts in regard to strength and muscle building. Both components of strength, maximum strength and strength endurance are as important as technique and agility in my sport. In short, sport climbers are strength training athletes.

Additionally the body fat level plays a decisive role for a sport climber just as for a bodybuilder. At the climbing wall his weight works against him - muscles mean strength, whereas body fat stands for balance. For this reason a climber, along with bodybuilders, are experts in muscle building and body fat reduction. But other than bodybuilders, who have to be in excellent form for competitions once or twice a year, a climber has to be at his best for competitions during several months during the spring and fall. Thus for him it is extremely important to maintain a constant level of fitness and performance throughout the whole year.

Jurgen



Coachings with Ori helped me to find my exact way of dieting

Practicing the "Warrior Diet" for 20 months in combination with the specific advice that Ori gave me in our very valuable telephone coachings, I was able to increase my overall energy level and also my power and endurance in competitions. The best were the competition days - I was able to stay "in 100% power-shape" during the whole day. In the past this was always one of my main problems - I was fit in the morning, but the longer the day was you know, getting hungry, starting to eat some snacks, etc. and suddenly you feel tired and not energized anymore. With Ori's "Warrior Diet" this now belongs 100% to the PAST! The result was my very best season that I have ever climbed in the World Cup. Right now, I am in 21st place in the world - and the world cup is not yet finished! I was really getting stronger every month, since I started to practice this "Lifestyle sports diet". Even on rest days with high efforts, I certainly improve with the advantages I have just mentioned.

Overtraining, cold and my comeback in spring 2007

But not only his skills as a professional nutrition coach made the personal consultations with Ori one of the most valuable "investments" I made within the last years. After a training week in New Mexico with my friend Clarence Bass, I was starting my usual climbing training back home with a little too much enthusiasm. So I was overtrained and suffering from a cold, which "costs" me the first two national cups in March. Ori helped me out of the mistakes I made. Beside teaching me how to feed my hormonal system which is very important for all anabolic processes in the body and the immune system with the right foods, his advices helped in a better planning of my training. This advice made the critical changes posible. Although Ori is no specialist in climbing or training climbers, his basics in the "survival training principle" - CFT - is groundbreaking for every athlete, who wants to develop his best. Together with my local coach, I was able to adjust my training and nutrition schedule and now I am improving better then ever before. No matter if you are a competitive athlete or just lifting weights for fun, I guarantee - Give the "personal support" of Ori a chance - it will lead you to the next level!

4 Pounds of lean muscle gain in six weeks!

Right now, I train harder but more structured than ever before. Together with an even further optimized nutrition, I was able to increase my bodyweight over 4 pounds within the last six weeks. Certainly at the same time, my power, especially my body power, increased again. Although, I elevated my overall calories, I am still lean! The knowledge of eating the right things, at the right time, makes the difference! So my body fat level is still low - about 5%, and I look and feel more muscular but still with very sharp definition! At my last competitions, I did very well again (2nd last week on a National Cup) and so my license for the World Cup is saved.

Healthy fat as main fuel even on hard training days!

My main fuel changed over many little steps - each of them well advised by Ori from Carb- into Fat fuel. From up to four High-Carb days - after a year, I am now able to stay on my "main fuel" so Ori calls for fat for up to 5 or 6 days during a hard training week! I feel more energy and recover faster then ever before. Even if I use the advantages of Carbs for very hard training - or competition days, I feel more toughness and endurance then ever before. Seems my body can use both "sourced" for really great performance.

In one of my last telephone coachings, Ori told me, that by following his diet, it is possible to stay young for much longer, because of the natural cycles that allow the body to recycle muscle and cells. So I am looking forward to improve further and climb stronger than ever before in the international world cup circus!

I can really recommend Ori's books and especially his telephone coachings for all athletes, who want to make their "Warrior Diet" perfectly customed for their metabolism, body types and efforts of their specific sports and disciplines!

Thank you Ori!

April 2007

Thanks,
Jurgen Reis
Austria


"I had started doing this play Off-Broadway called, 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)'. There were three of us doing this highly physical play eight times a week, and it was intense. We were onstage the entire hour and a half of the show, doing 50 different characters. It was fantastic, but it got to be exhausting. My energy level would change from day to day: Sometimes I'd wake up really groggy, other days I'd wake up with a lot of energy, and it was frustrating.

At first I looked at my sleeping patterns. I made sure to get regular amounts of sleep, but my energy was still up and down throughout the day, and sometimes it was hard to get revved up for the performance. So then I started trying common-knowledge diets, like eating little bits throughout the day, to try to keep my blood sugar even. This didn't work for me at all; my energy still went way up and way down.

I had been getting mailings from Dragon Door, and I finally noticed The Warrior Diet book. I read the table of contents, and thought, "Alright, I'll get this book." So I got it, read it, and started the diet right away. And immediately, I mean IMMEDIATELY, I started feeling phenomenal.

I feel very alert and much lighter, and more importantly, I have a cycle of ingestion and elimination, which is never dealt with in other diets. They all talk about what you put in your body, but not about how it gets out, and how regularly it gets out. I believe that to be really important. I really sense that I have a daily detoxification and ingestion process; I mean, I really feel like I'm on a cycle with this diet, and it helps ground me.

Tastes have improved; a world of tastes that wasn't there before has opened up for me. I have an appreciation for the wide variety of foods and their colors and textures. And as an artist, this sensitivity is invaluable, because it's that kind of specificity for things that really inspires me.

I noticed that as an actor, my senses were heightened two-hundredfold when I cut back on the sugar. It was only by cutting back that I realized how aggressive that taste is, and how unnatural it is. And I had been totally unaware of that because I was taking it in so much. The Warrior Diet now affects my perceptions about everything, especially living in a place like Manhattan. Here, advertisements are crammed down your throat everywhere you turn, and everything is bright colors and billboards and Times Square; I mean, everything is like, in your face.' Moving away from sugar and processed foods hasn't made the lights blink any dimmer or decreased the number of ads in the city, but it has made Goldstrom want to avoid the noisy New York clutter when possible, and when impossible, to at least take it in through more patient senses.

Goldstrom realized that the new diet was actually quite similar to the way he ate when not on a stressful performance schedule. "I realized that when I wasn't working, which as an actor can be quite often, that I tended to eat just one large meal at night, and not much during the day. It worked well for my natural system. And the Warrior Diet provided a flexible structure for this way that I had been trying to eat. It was very easy to follow and stick to.

I pretty much do the sample day that's in the book. In the morning, I have two glasses of water to clear the system, and then I have some coffee. (Everyone says, "You can have coffee?!?") During the day, I go around the corner to get these fresh vegetable juices. I hated, HATED, them before; I can't even tell you how much I used to detest them. And now, I adore and crave them. I get juices made with carrots, beets, kale, chard and apple, all in different combinations.

Sometimes I'll crave more greens, or more reds, and I completely believe what Ori says in the book about craving different colors. I think that the colors are connected to the chemical makeup of the food, and that your body craves these chemicals through sight. It's a very integrated approach to food and nutrition and desire for food.

In the evening, I generally have three-to four-course meals. I start off with a salad, and then soup. From there, I follow the advice to start off with subtler foods and more towards more aggressive ones. You know the old folk wisdom of "save the best for last"? That makes a lot of sense when you're talking about diet, because those more aggressive-tasting foods will cover up the quality of subtler foods, like broccoli. And it makes sense to start out with a salad, because it goes through the stomach lining very easily, and leaves more room for all the other stuff. Then I'll move on to the vegetables, then meat, maybe an omelet, and some bread."

Although Goldstrom is pretty good about sticking to the diet, he admits that he does have a weakness. "I love chocolate. One of the good things about the Warrior Diet is that chocolate is allowed, and I definitely haven't cut the sugar out completely. Sometimes during the day, I'll have something like chocolate-covered almonds, but nothing too heavy. I just don't crave anything heavy during the day anymore.

My awareness of many tastes and even textures got heightened tremendously by eating natural foods. I noticed the difference in texture of a carrot from broccoli and other stuff that that I would never eat before, but now could really appreciate. I realized, taste-wise, how aggressively processed foods are designed. They really numb your taste buds. My cravings for foods really shifted, because I started to become aware of my desire for a certain texture or quality of food."

Goldstrom has always kept in good shape, most recently with a combo of martial arts, some yoga, and a little of Pavel Tsatsouline's stuff. Even so, the exercises didn't make him trimmer until he started eating the Warrior way. "The minute I started the diet, my body reacted. My body responds very quickly to changes, and in the first week I became so much leaner looking. It was really amazing. I was doing the same exercises as before, but because of what I was eating and when I was eating, I got leaner.

I've been on the diet since early March of 2002. Everyone's like, "You're still doing it?" and I'm like, "You bet!" I absolutely plan to stick with the Warrior Diet. It's a lifestyle for me now."


Thanks,
Michael Goldstrom
Actor
"The Sopranos" & "Law & Order:SVU"

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Success Stories

" I am 23 now and have no intent of living any other way. By incorporating all of your magnificent products including the Warrior Whey and following CFT program, I have obtained astonishing results. I started at a weight of 120lbs and have increased my lean body mass to 170lbs all while never going above a 9% fat percentage. I feel stronger and more resilient than ever. It has been fun to see the improvement of all the top shelf products you sell. "
- Nick LoScalzo


"I stayed the same weight (~160, 5'10") but lost 2 inches on my waist (crazy for a skinny guy). I haven't measured my fat percentage yet. It was ~8% last december. The challenge started Dec 31st and Ended April 20th. 4 months."
- Emeka Okorafor


"The philosophy of the Warrior diet is one that is close to my heart. In a society that is becoming ever more indulgent, the Warrior diet stands out as a set of balancing guidelines to proper eating and clean living. A Spartan lifestyle is a Warrior lifestyle. The Warrior diet isn't one of unnecessary deprivation. Rather, it's one of innate balance."
- Marc Withheld


"Ori's was a great mentor for me during this time. Yes, perhaps I could of pulled it off myself, but why not tap into a great mind. Ori not only went out of his way to help me, but also gave his heart and soul to it as if he was doing it. The man is one of a kind. I am looking forward to learning even more about nutrition and conditioning from him in the years ahead. "
- David Grisaffi


"I can really recommend Ori's books and especially his telephone coachings for all athletes, who want to make their "Warrior Diet" perfectly customed for their metabolism, body types and efforts of their specific sports and disciplines!"
- Jurgen Reis (Austria)

"... after finishing the three week weight loss program I was down 11 lbs. and my energy was through the roof. Now I was right in the middle of the holiday season with all the parties and events planned I was a little nervous but I had realize that I had learned that with the right combination of foods and with the addition of the Controlled Fatigue Training (CFT) this would not be an issue. I was able to knock off another 4 lbs. I enjoy the holiday season like never before."
- Carolyn Izzo-Feldman


"I refuse to graze all day, I have better things to do. I choose The Warrior Diet."
- Pavel Tsatsouline


"In a era of decadence, where wants and desires are virtually limitless, Ori's vision recalls an age of warriors, where success meant survival and survival was the only option. A diet of the utmost challenge from which users will reap tremendous benefits."
- John Davies -- Olympic and professional sports strength/speed coach


"The Warrior Diet certainly defies so-called modern nutritional and training dogmas. Having met Ori on several occasions, I can certainly attest that he is the living proof that his system works. He maintains a ripped muscular body year round despite juggling extreme workloads and family life. His take on supplementation is refreshing as he promotes an integrated and timed approach. The Warrior Diet is a must read for the nutrition and training enthusiast who wishes to expand his horizons."
- Charles Poliquin -- Author of The Poliquin Principles and Modern Trends in Strength Training, Three-Time Olympic Strength Coach


"In my quest for a lean, muscular body, I have seen practically every diet and suffered through most of them. It is also my business to help others with their fat loss programs. I am supremely skeptical of any eating plan or "diet" book that can't tell me how and why it works in simple language. Ori Hofmekler's The Warrior Diet does just this, with a logical, readable approach that provides grounding for his claims and never asks the reader to take a leap of faith. The Warrior Diet can be a very valuable weapon in the personal arsenal of any woman."
- DC Maxwell -- 2-time Women's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Co-Owner,Maxercise Sports/Fitness Training Center and Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy East


"I think of myself as a modern-day warrior; businessman, family man and competitive athlete. In the 2 years that I have been following The Warrior Diet, I have enjoyed the predators' advantage of freedom from the necessity of frequent feedings. I also benefit from the competitive edge of being a fat burning machine. My 12-yearold son, who is also a competitive athlete, has naturally gravitated towards The Warrior Diet. He is growing up lean, strong and healthy, unlike many of his peers, many of whom, even in this land of plenty, are overweight and frequently sick. Thank you, Ori, for writing The Warrior Diet."
- Stephen Maxwell, MS -- 2-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Co-Owner, Maxercise Sports/Fitness Training Center and Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy East


"An original, distinctive, and highly satisfying diet plan, The Warrior Diet is meant especially for those who pursue an active lifestyle."
- Midwest Book Review


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- First For Women Magazine, December, 2002