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?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Day 30 - Last Day!

Weight - 199.4lb BF - 16.8%

Mood - Don't feel great today...felt better in the afternoon

Well, today is the last full day of my 1st 30 days on 4HB! I'll be posting in a 4-part blog (its pretty long) detailing my experience with 4HB including the final results, feasibility, energy and next steps from here. I hope you find it interesting and helpful if you choose to give 4HB a shot.

I went to lunch today with my sister and we had a great time, I had a really great carne asada steak at Azul, a local Mexican bistro.

Next steps are still in the air for me but I really enjoy seeing the progress and I think I might stick with this another 2 weeks until November 4th. I'm in town for the next 2 weeks and then off to a week of travel, I think I'll try to maintain until Thanksgiving but I'll reevaluate after 2 more weeks. I really want to get to 195lb and 12% and there is more work to be done!

I've decided on a couple of minor adjustments that I'll make now. I'm going to add a little stevia to my coffee with some cream in the mornings. I'm going to eat breakfast at the cafe at work, I usually always get to work within about 1hr of waking and I'm going to have one 20oz bottle of diet coke a day. Those are my adjustments for the next 2 weeks, other than that, everything will remain the same. We will see if this stymies weight loss progress. Final note, from now on I'll just be posting weekly summary blogs with weight and BF results day-to-day and some thoughts on how the ongoing progress is going with adjustments I have made.

Thanks so much for following! Final results tomorrow!

Meals
730am - avacado and fresh tomato and coffee
12pm - carne asada with grilled green beans and black beans
7pm - dinner was a nice acorn squash with chicken and curry and a glass of wine

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