Around the new year one of my best buddies from law school, Pat Walsh, sent me an email asking if I was interested in making dramatic changes in my health and appearance. Pat and his wife are both very health conscious and I trust any tips and techniques that they recommend, so I said yes. A few days later I receive a book in the mail entitled "The 4-Hour Body: An uncommon guide to rapid fat-loss, incredible sex, and becoming superhuman."

The book makes many major claims that I was eager to both learn how to accomplish and also ready to disprove them as a bunch of hype. I started reading the book that morning and did not stop for 6 hours! The book is an amazing read and the author, Tim Ferriss (NYTimes Bestselling author of "The 4-Hour Workweek"), backs up all his claims with logical reasoning. How does Michael Phelps eat 12,000 calories in a day? Subtract 3,000 calories for resting metabolic burn off, so we are to believe that he burns 9,000 calories everyday swimming? If that were true he would need to swim the breast stroke at olympic level speeds for 10 hours, non-stop, everyday. Obviously not happening ... I won't ruin it here but he goes on for a chapter about thermol load and how water is 4 times more conductive than air. This is just a tiny glimpse at some well researched and logical approaches to eating better and working out smarter (which actually means working out less than you would think, maybe twice a week).

So, here I am. Starting to incorporate the tips and techniques in the book. One of the first thing the book states is to make sure you graph changes by measurements beyond a weight scale. Obviously if you are gaining muscle some weeks while losing fat, the scale can be misleading and frustrating. The book also recommends posting pics and measurements online and open for others to see, this is to ensure that I stay with things. This is why I created this blog, so that I can keep myself honest and maybe ... just MAYBE ... inspire someone else to take on some of these ideas!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Dinner!

SO! In the book TFerriss talks about how he eats only breakfast at home and typically eats lunch and dinner out since he is always on the road. WELL ... I took his advice today and ate at his two favorite types of 'out' food ... Chipotle for lunch (see below) and for dinner I had Thai food. Now ... I am a big Phad Thai fan, but, I had to come to grips with the fact that it is essentially an ass load of carbs in the form of noodles with some veggies mixed in so you feel healthy. Lets be honest, it is the Thai version of carbo loading and I had to do away with it.

I went with one of the best and most healthy meals I have had in a very long time. I got the swimming rama ... chicken on a bed of a spinach with peanut sauce. I thought it was not enough veggies! I mean, I know it is on a bed of spinach but I wanted some more variety. So I talked to the waiter and asked if I could get a side of steamed veggies ... but I am picky with veggies so I said, charge me a couple bucks but I want only carrots, cabbage, and green beans. He then asked if I wanted them cooked with the chicken and added to the dish. I said of course and I had an absolutely amazing meal!! Chicken with green beans, carrots, and cabbage on a bed of spinach with a peanut sauce on top. AMAZING! Better than phad thai a hundred times over.

Full disclosure, I was concerned about hitting the 40 grams of protein that the book suggests per meal so I did get an order of Chicken Satay that I shared with my friend who I had dinner with. And ... by shared I mean, he got 1 skewer I got the other 4 :) It also came with a nice cucumber salad which I thoroughly enjoyed. LOL!

This slowcarb diet is real easy to adjust to so far. :)

Full Full Discloser! My friend had left over carrots from his meal that he didn't want and I ate them.

Even Fuller Discloser! My friend kept trying to tempt me with jolly rancher gummies post-dinner and it took some major will power to say no! I'm not much one for candy, but a gummy fruity candy is my weak spot :)
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)