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Four hour body 4hb or slow carb diet after 4 weeks

I'm been following the Tim Ferriss diet pretty much exactly for the last month and running about 20 miles a week also. So far, I'm not so impressed. It's working but nothing like the claims in the book. Here is a chart of the progress so far:

I've dropped from 179lbs to 170lbs in 28 days. You can see the cheat days and the impact on my weight over the following two or three days. It does spike and then fall off. It seems to recover faster lately also. 9lbs in 4 weeks is nothing crazy to brag about especially given the exercise also. I've burned maybe 8000 cals or 2lbs running so maybe 7lbs is because of the diet. I have not done a body pod or similar for an accurate body fat calculation so it's possible that I'm gaining muscle and have lost more fat. According to my home scale with a body fat sensor, I've dropped from 22% to 19% body fat. So, thats 3% of 179lbs or 5.37lbs of fat.

My normal days consist of breakfast with 2 eggs and beans. Chipotle (no rice in a bowl) for lunch and a protein with beans and lots of vegetables for dinner. I have a snack in the afternoon of 200cals of raw almonds. Sometimes I have chipotle for dinner too. I drink maybe 60 ozs of water a day. I try to have spinach in my eggs most mornings.

Anyway, the bottom line is I'm losing weight but anyone expecting 20lbs a month is going to be disappointed. You'd need to be pretty overweight I think for that kind of number. The best thing about this is I don't feel hungry at all during the week. I'm having no trouble working out also. This is better in these two respects than a 1600 cal a day diet approach.

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I hit my life time high weight back in October 2009. 185lbs. I'm 5" 8. I had a belly and I wasn't happy about it. It was time to do something about it. Exercise is, of course, part of it but 30 minutes a day is about 300-400 calories. The faster way to lose weight is to simply eat less. Losing weight is just math. Calories in minus calories out. 3.5k cals is 1lb. Don't eat 7k cals a week and you lose two lbs a week which is about the most you should lose per week. Exercising to lose 7k a week is almost impossible until you're full time in the gym. It's easier to just drop my calorific intake from 2.6k cals a day to 1.6k. I got the livestrong application for my iPhone. This lets me enter my current weight and set a goal like 2lbs a week. I can then use it to record everything I eat/drink and it tracks the calories and how many I have left that day. It has the livestrong web site also with the daily plate where I can track my weight. If you exercise then you can add that in also. If you burn 500 cals then you eat 500 cals more. You just need to make sure you stay on target. Livestrong will adjust your daily calorie budget downwards as you lose weight. I started about 1650 cals a day, now I'm at 1510 or so.

This graph shows my weight loss since mid October 2009. I'm down nearly 20lbs and my goal is 155lbs. After a couple of months using livestrong I got in to a routine. I know my regular breakfast, lunch and dinners and can pretty much calculate calories in my head.

This does work. It's not a fad diet. Doctor Phil or Oprah won't be endorsing it because there is no money in it. EAT LESS and you lose weight. It's simple.