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Day 7, Sunday, Mother’s Day, and after six days on the tim ferriss slow carb diet I’m down 6 lbs! WOOT!

Of course, today is my weekly Binge Day, so I know that number will go up afterwards. That’s fine by me.

I woke excited about making my Maple Breakfast once again, which had become a staple after I cut out toast for breakfast recently. On the 4 hour body slow carb plan, however, I had to stop using maple syrup with my egg and veggie breakfasts. Now I’ll enjoy them once a week on my Cheat Day.

Maple English Breakfast

English breakfast with an American flair. Serves 1.

• 2 slices of bacon
• Real maple syrup (3 T – 1/8 cup)
• 2 eggs
• 1/4-1/2 cup onion, thinly sliced
• 1-3 slices of fresh tomato

1. I always cut my long bacon strips in half, allowing me four half-strips and they’re much easier to cook in a skillet. Heat your skillet (I recommend cast iron) and fry your bacon for a few minutes on each side, till partly cooked.
2. While the bacon is frying, prepare your veggies. You can use any veggies you like but I’ve found this combo works especially well with the maple syrup.
3. When the bacon is partway cooked, drizzle real maple syrup all over them with a little extra in the skillet. Pepper them well, flip and pepper the other side. If you want a tiny bit of spice, also sprinkle a little red pepper flakes or cayenne on the bacon when you pepper them.
4. Keep flipping and cooking the bacon in the bubbly syrup-bacon fat until the bacon is crisp and nicely browned. Carefully place each strip on a plate so they don’t touch each other (or they’ll stick together).
5. In the hot skillet with the maple-bacon fat, add your sliced onion in the center and the tomato slices at the edges of the skillet. Let these cook for a minute or so, flipping the tomatoes.
6. Move the veggies over and add two eggs. Cook the eggs how you like them (I prefer sunny side up). The flavors of bacon fat and maple syrup will caramelize on the onions, tomatoes, and eggs and taste oh, SO GOOD.

Pile your plate with the sticky eggs and veggies, draping the sweet bacon on the edge. I find that after I finish my eggs, there’s an incredible liquid left on the plate of egg yolk mixed with the maple-bacon fat, and I like to dredge my bacon strips in it when I eat (then I lick the plate!). I always save at least one maple bacon strip for last as a sweet ender. Sometimes I’ll cook up a third bacon strip, they are DELICIOUS! And if it’s my Binge Day, why not?

Serve this breakfast with orange juice and strong coffee if you like.

What is the 4 hour body diet? An anything-goes cheat day once a week!

With my beloved Maple English Breakfast, I also enjoyed fresh pineapple slices and chocolate-covered strawberries from the two special Mother’s Day gifts sent to me from my daughter in Florida. I had quite a few of the strawberries, so good. The second plate contained mini-cheesecakes, more chocolate-covered strawberries, and other little chocolates. We all enjoyed eating these all day long. I told my family – it’s a whole week until next Cheat Day, and these won’t keep, so eat up!

I also loved having my regular cappuccinos and Americanos with real sugar and milk all day long.

Lunch on Binge Day: healthy low carb recipe

My eldest cooked up a special dinner for Mother’s Day luncheon. She made a HelloFresh recipe: Balsamic & Fig Beef Tenderloin with Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Rosemary Panko Brussels Sprouts. She substituted broccoli for the Brussels sprouts. It was all divine! Today being Binge Day I was able to fully enjoy the mashed potatoes with the meal. My guess is that all the rest of the meal could be enjoyed on a regular eating day of the 4 hr body plan if you simply skip the mashed potatoes or make cauliflower mash instead. Or, better yet, the White Bean Garlic Faux Mashed Potatoes to get your beans in.

Tip for Binge Days from the 4 hour body book

Tim gives lots of tips to best navigate the Binge Day on the 4 hour body slow carb plan. One tip is to drink grapefruit juice with coffee before lunch. There are ingredients in each that when taken together help with burning off the extra calories, I believe. I forgot to have grapefruit juice and coffee before lunch, so I had it after and drank more grapefruit juice and coffee in the afternoon. Of course I didn’t take my statin pill this morning as you’re not supposed to mix statin with grapefruit. I have an alarm set for Saturdays and Sundays (to cover every cheat day) to remind me first thing NOT to take my statin on Binge Day.

Dessert for supper – not a slow carb recipe

DESSERT FOR SUPPER – YES! I ate more of my special dessert platter, including some of the cheesecake and more chocolate-covered strawberries and the other chocolates. Went to my home church (we call it Group) and they had a bunch of desserts from their Mother’s Day celebration. So I thoroughly enjoyed two different kinds of apple pie with whipped cream before our meeting, then had more apple pie after meeting. I LOVE apple pie. What an awesome Cheat Day I had!!! I CAN’T WAIT until the next one.

My 4 hour body review? THIS PLAN ROCKS!

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