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!

Monday, January 3, 2011

FIVE Rules to Eating

#1 No White Carbohydrates (Even brown carbs that could be white)
That means no bread (white/wheat), oatmeal, pasta, tortillas, rice (white/brown), cereal, chips, anything deep fried in a batter.

#2 Don't Drink Your Calories
No milk, no soda (regular/diet), no excessive alcohol. 2 glasses of red wine or straight hard alcohol are acceptable.

#3 No Fruit
That is right, no fresh fruit, no frozen fruit, no fruit juice. All fruit does is turn into bad sugar and the vitamins you get from them you can get elsewhere. According to the book serious olympic trainers and athletes have avoided fruit for decades, but the rest of the population is behind.

#4 Eat the Same Few Meals Over and Over Again
Most grocery stores have 47,000 items, yet, only a handful actually keep you from getting fat. Stick with Proteins, Legumes (beans), and Vegetables.

#5 Take One Day Off A Week
Go nuts, don't count one calorie, eat a dozen donuts followed by a large pizza washed down with a keg of beer! This rule is not just to keep people interested, apparently the weekly one day spike in glucose is necessary for weight loss. This day is required to keep the body from shutting down into starvation mode.

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