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?

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Day 13 - Deja Vu All Over Again - Week 2 Results

Cheat day!
Weight 201.6lb, BF 17.5%, Total Inches - 155.5"

So, this is almost exactly what I measured last week at this time. Everything is exactly the same except BF% which is up 0.1%. I'm encouraged by the numbers, 201.6lb is a great place for me to be although my expectations for this week were to be below 200lb. I feel like I have been spending all week making up the ground I lost for last week's cheat day.

That said, I do believe that traveling did slow me down a bit. I ate lots of nuts, and had a few more glasses of vino and not as much water as I should have. An interesting note, neither my wife nor my friend Matt who are also working on this diet with me lost anything either. We have all stalled out. I talked with both of them and they are still in it for the next 2 weeks to ride this thing out to the end.

Today is cheat day though and in the spirit of holding to the diet, I had a big glass of milk for breakfast and some plum cake, finally finished that off. I also had some Greek style yogurt and coffee with cream and splenda.

We are having some friends over as well today so I'm sure some eating and drinking will get done later today as well!

I am optimistic all in all and I do think there will be significant losses this week. 8lbs in 13 days is still unbelievable to me even if it's been a bit of a roller coaster ride to get there. If I lose another 8lbs in the next 2 weeks, that would put me at about 193lb and that's just silly.

I also plan on taking up exercise again this week. I have only worked out ONCE in the past 3 weeks due to my MCL sprain but I'm gearing up to get back into full action this week and that should also help to kick start things as well!

Fine, y'all caught me, it's my cheat day and my ice cream cake so you just go on and get your own cheat day and ice cream cake now. Haha!

930pm - ok, so, I'm drunk. yep. had many coronas, had many whiskeys, had many enchiladas and blew it up pretty good. was fun though and man, thank god for a cheat day, because sometimes the crazy eastern european next door neighbor and the friend from grad school just show up and all hell breaks loose and thats just how it goes! you know? and this is good sometimes, nice to take a break from all the beans and water and tracking everything and stuff like that. we'll hit it hard tomorrow, start off proper again. good week, solid week. good times.

mahalo!

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