Welcome! What's this 4HB all about?

Hi All!

So I'm going to try Tim Ferriss' 'The 4-hour Body' diet. I'm an optimistic skeptic and for 30 days, starting on Monday, September 26th, I'll embark on this little adventure.

I'm and engineer and an MBA by trade and Tim has me very curious. I have been working hard at my weight and seem to have plateaued at about 208lb and about 18% body fat so its time to shake things up a bit.

I'm also a father of 2 year old twin girls, my wife Jess is coming along with me on this adventure and I'll update you on her progress as well. Tim is a swingin' bachelor from the sounds of it so consider me a real-life acid test on whether or not the more average folk can realistically fit this into their lives.

My goal is 195lb and about 12%BF which is well within the expectations set by Tim's program at 20lbs in 30 days.

I'll be talking about how I feel on the diet, how much it costs and what the results are, of course. I'll try to be as specific as possible and time/date all the things I do.

I'll put links and photos of everything I do and hopefully it will be as big a success as Tim advertises it to be!

Vote on what you think my end weight will be!

What will Nick's end weight be?

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Day 4 - Coming Back to Earth

Weight 204.8lb BF 18.4%

So my weight loss has hit a temporary snag but I'm not too worried and I'm not too surprised. Like I said, my weight fluctuates a lot so I'm not going to get too excited until we press under 203lb and closer to 200lb. BF is effectively steady with a slight increase of 0.2%.

Had leftover chili for breakfast 1st thing with AGG and coffee as well. Good start to the day! Feeling pretty good, I was very lethargic yesterday so I'm hoping I feel more energetic today. We'll see!
A note about my activity. I'm still laid up from any hard lifting and exercising because of my sprained MCL. I think I'll be back in action next week full time with a couple of days of yoga and a couple of days of jiu jitsu.

I want to stitch in the Occam's Protocol workout as well over lunchtime a couple of days a week and see how that goes. We train with kettle-bells at my MMA school occasionally I think they are great.

One thing I do that is a little different than most is I stand at work, all day, every day. Read up on it, its great for men and burns lots more calories throughout the day:

So my activity level should pick up in weeks 2 and 3 of the 4HB diet for sure.

12pm - Lunch was a spinach salad with egg, oil and vinegar and assorted veggies. That's my standard for lunch more often than not. I also added some Tillamook pepperoni as well, this is heavy on the salt but low on sugar, most jerkys have a lot of sugar in them so I passed on them.

Had dinner with a friend tonight and subjected her to my 4HB dieting ways and she was impressed! We had grilled chicken with Mexican flavored beans and steamed broccoli. She said it was great to eat a healthy meal and she said it tasted good too!

I took the AGG supplement before dinner but forgot to take it before lunch. Had a couple of glasses of wine too which substitute for my dessert basically.
Not as lethargic today as yesterday but still pretty slow going today. Eating more at lunch definitely helped matters.

1 more day until cheat day!

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