Day 6, down 6 lbs, I’m feeling great, my numbers are improving, and this is the last day before cheat day! My first Binge Day is tomorrow, Sunday, since it is Mother’s Day and my kids and hubby want to pamper me. 🙂 I am REALLY looking forward to tomorrow!
What is the 4 hour body diet? A plan with something to look forward to every week.
Having a weekly Binge Day to look forward to is really amazing. If I crave any cheat during the week (which so far I haven’t – what?!), I can simply write it down to have on my weekly Binge Day. It’s fun to slowly creep towards Binge Day and to anticipate all the amazing treats I’ll have on that day. It makes that one day a week feel like a special celebration!
In the tim ferriss slow carb diet plan in his 4 hour body book, he takes Saturday off as his Binge Day every week. Because I live in real life, I will choose which weekend day to be my Binge Day each week depending on which social engagements and activities I have planned. This week: Sunday for Mother’s Day. Next week: Saturday, since we were invited to a May Fun Day and BBQ. Plus my eldest daughter is going to cook for the whole family that evening for Family Night, Loaded Pork Taquitos from HelloFresh, so I need to be on my Cheat Day to enjoy that meal.
We like to have a weekly Family Night here, either on Friday or Saturday night. We were making homemade individual pizzas and calzones for much of the past year (which I’ll only be able to do on my Cheat Day), but when everyone got a little tired of that we switched to Grill Night – hot dogs and burgers. I can do that on the 4 hour body slow carb plan by simply omitting the bun (use romaine lettuce) and skipping the potato chips.
Lunch: fast low carb recipe
Today again I enjoyed Tuna Onion Salad for lunch on fresh baby spinach with a drizzle of olive oil. For dessert, I had my Greek yogurt (with monk fruit sweetener) flavored with
vanilla.
Supper: healthy low carb recipe – Grill!
TWEAK: Can I occasionally have baked beans in my slow carb recipes even though they have sugar which is not allowed on the 4 hr body plan?
Whenever my hubby cooks burgers and hot dogs on the grill, he loves to heat up a can of baked beans as a side. I examined the numbers and read that one serving, 1/2 cup of baked beans, contains 12 grams of sugar. Then I checked The Belly Fat Cure diet plan, which I’ve tried here and there in the past, and saw that we can have up to 15 grams of sugar per day and still lose weight. (FYI, that’s about the amount of sugar our ancestors had daily, which is one reason why pioneers were so skinny!)
So I decided to bank on the information that with 1/2 cup of baked beans, I was still below 15 grams of sugar today. Remember, the 4 hour body slow carb plan says no sugar on your regular diet days (only on the weekly Binge Day).
I had a delicious burger wrapped with romaine lettuce leaves, topped with fresh tomato and kimchee for probiotics and flavor. I also put on a little bit of mustard and ketchup. It was delicious. I savored every bite of my 1/2 cup of sweet baked beans. It’s nice to have variety in my beans at my meals.
ANSWER: Yes! According to my numbers next morning, eating these baked beans still allowed me to lose weight on this 4 hour body slow carb plan. Probably because I was under 15 grams of sugar for the day. WOO HOO!
Supper was hearty and delicious and I didn’t crave any dessert tonight. We enjoyed watching a show together for Family Night.
I am really enjoying writing and living this 4 hour body review. I went to bed anticipating the joy of MY FIRST BINGE DAY TOMORROW!
WEEKLY SUMMARY:
| Goal | 180 | 25 | 25% | 45% | 40% | 50 | |||
| DATE: | Day | WEIGHT: | BMI: | BODY FAT: | BODY H2O: | SKEL. MUSC: | MET AGE: | Ttl lbs lost: | |
| 5/7/2023 | Su | i | 200.7 | 29 | 36.6 | 43.5 | 36.9 | 60 | |
| 5/8/2023 | M | 1 | 199.6 | 29 | 36.6 | 43.5 | 36.9 | 60 | 1.1 |
| 5/9/2023 | T | 2 | 196.4 | 29 | 36.6 | 43.5 | 36.9 | 60 | 4.3 |
| 5/10/2023 | W | 3 | 196.6 | 29 | 36.4 | 43.6 | 37 | 60 | 4.1 |
| 5/11/2023 | R | 4 | 195.8 | 29 | 36.4 | 43.6 | 37 | 60 | 4.9 |
| 5/12/2023 | F | 5 | 195.6 | 29 | 36.4 | 43.6 | 37 | 60 | 5.1 |
| 5/13/2023 | Sa | 6 | 194.8 | 28.9 | 36.2 | 43.8 | 37.2 | 60 | 5.9 |
