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?

Friday, October 7, 2011

Day 12 - Man vs. Airport

8am - Breakfast in Dallas of eggs with GREAT salsa and bacon with black coffee at the hotel buffet. Easy easy!

I'm excited to get home and see my lil family as well as see what progress/damage the trip has done. I've held pretty close while I've been traveling so I expect modest gains.

One nice thing I've noted about this diet is the allowance for a couple of glasses of wine. This makes it nice to go out for a mid week happy hour or have a glass of wine with co-workers without blowing your diet or inviting all sorts of questions regarding why you're ordering soda water at the bar. It's a nice touch to the diet that adds to the real world 'live-ability' of the diet.

12pm - I got this wonderful salad at TGIFridays in the airport so that I could eat something decent prior to my flight and it kind of threw me a curve ball, it had lots of shredded cheese and some tortilla chips in it too. So not the best option for this diet but I think it was better than just eating nuts all day and I got some avocado and veggies out of the deal as well as some grilled chicken. I tried to eat around the stuff not part of the 4HB plan but the airport has struck again! Just something to be aware of, read those menus carefully!

5pm - On the flight home, I ate a bag of jerky and some mixed nuts as a snack again denying the awesome warm cookie that they hand out on Frontier flights.

8pm - My wife had made ups a really cool black bean, spinach and andouille sausage soup that was great, we also had a small salad too.

I'm beat but excited for week 2 results and cheat day tomorrow!

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