What is the 4 hour body diet? Drinking lots of water!
First of all, having a tiny cheat yesterday (coffee with sugar-free caramel syrup) doesn’t seem to have made a difference. My weight increased two-tenths of a point. That could be to any factor.
As for water, I have a hiatal hernia (I think because I carried four large babies in a row) which causes pretty extreme acid reflux. Besides taking Omeprazole daily (which doesn’t take away all of my heartburn), I have to follow a bunch of lifestyle rules to allow me to sleep at night lying down. These include drinking warm or hot water (I’d switched all my water to room temp or warmer), eating less the last meal of the day, eating supper between 4-6pm, no more food at all after 7pm, no more water after 7pm (tiny sips only). I need at least 4-6 hours after my last meal before I can lie down to sleep. Walk for at least 20 mins after supper – I’ve even done this in 25 degree winter weather in the dark, though usually in the winter I pace inside the house.
So switching to always drinking ice-cold water is a big change for me, but so far it’s been fine. Also drinking lots more water than I’m used to. I still try not to have too much in the evenings, especially as I prefer staying in bed all night for good sleep. I worked consciously to drink more water today. Also because hunger decided to visit me mid-morning.
4 hour body review – hunger
I haven’t felt hungry in a while (a sign of overeating). Mid-morning I began to feel it rather strongly. One of my close friends used to say “Hunger is just fat leaving your body.” That’s to help to not be afraid of hunger. I also just learned that to help our bodies stay younger and not age so fast, it’s helpful to let the body experience some hunger once in a while – in other words, don’t always constantly be full all the time. That expert recommended regularly fasting for either a meal or a day every week.
So though I wasn’t afraid of hunger, it is rather uncomfortable and hard to concentrate when it appears. I happened to be in luck – I’d “inherited” some products from Isagenix after a friend stopped doing the program. Right next to my desk I had a half-full bottle of Isagenix “Snacks” – little vanilla chewable tabs, called wafers, about the size of a Tums, to alleviate hunger.
TWEAK: once in a while, can I eat an Isogenix snack wafer to help alleviate hunger?
Hm, I looked at the ingredients just now and the first one is fructose! Dang! Second ingredient is nonfat dry milk, then whey protein concentrate, calcium, soy, flax seed powder, alfalfa and some vitamins and various things. I only had one, but it did the trick, it tied me over until lunch.
In Tim’s 4 hour body book he does mention that if you experience hunger, to try and get in more protein and larger meals at mealtime, and drink lots of water. He doesn’t recommend snacking at all, but if you do he suggests something healthy like carrots or veggies. I haven’t been having beans with breakfast so that could make a difference with hunger. I’m not ready to start that yet, I love my breakfasts as they are (fried eggs, bacon, veggies, coffee).
Healthy low carb recipes – leftovers for lunch
Today I had my Mexican Pork Chops leftovers for lunch along with my simple plain Greek yogurt for dessert. After adding my monk fruit sweetener, I flavored it with vanilla and almond extracts, then sprinkled cocao nibs from some previous diet plan on top. It was quite yummy. The recipe is in yesterday’s post and it’s a great healthy low carb recipe, fast low carb recipe, and slow carb diet recipe.
Easing back into my light workouts
Still getting over my flu, gradually, and today I did a light workout on my Meta Quest II VR headset with my Supernatural workout program. It’s so fun doing workouts while standing in incredible places like a mountain peak in the Alps or on the Great Wall of China or on a beach in Tahiti or at the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
Supper: Happy Hour
Tonight my husband and I went to the monthly Happy Hour gathering with my writing group. In the Tim Ferriss slow carb diet most red wines are allowed during the week. So even though we were at a wonderful taproom with tons of beer and cider options, luckily they had one tap of a delicious red wine. It was perfect and I enjoyed it – high quality.
TWEAK: Once in a while, can I have fried chicken on the 4 hour body slow carb diet plan?
In the 4 hr body plan, you are to avoid all white carbs and that includes breading on fried foods. So normally you would not have this at all. But at the taproom where we met I had read they had some of the city’s best fried chicken, and had been wanting to try it. So tonight my hubby and I shared the Traditional Fried Chicken Meal. We shared the Caesar Salad (no croutons for me), shared the perfectly-cooked green beans, and we each had two pieces of the fresh fried chicken. It was perfectly crispy on the outside and perfectly tender on the inside. He didn’t care for the lack of spices or flavors or the chicken breast. I enjoyed mine very much, I had red meat. After my two pieces I finished off the meat on his chicken breast. The meal was so yummy and we had a fun time with our friends.
My sweet ender
My meal and red wine was enough that I didn’t crave dessert tonight. Instead I enjoyed the little sweet buzz from the high-quality red wine.
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 |
