The Four Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman is the result of self-experimenter Tim Ferriss's (author of The Four Hour Work Week) decade long quest to find the minimum effective dose for rapid fat loss, rapid muscle gain, strength, endurance, fantastic sex, and effective sleep.
My interest? the book's claims that you could lose 20 pounds in 30 days without any exercise. Having compulsively recorded his personal data including workouts, food intake, supplement intake, etc. Ferriss has concluded that a low Glycemic Index (G.I.) diet is the key to fat loss and the visible veins in his abdomen (!) are the proof.
The Rules of the 4 Hour Slow Carb Diet:
1. Avoid White Carbs
Bread, rice, cereal, pasta, potatoes, tortillas, and fried foods with breading
2. Eat the Same Few Meals Over and Over
This should make it easier on you so that you don't have to wonder what to eat. It also frankly makes me uninterested in food
3. Don't Drink Calories
Only drink water, unsweetened teas, and coffee. No milk. Dry wine is okay.
4. Don't Eat Fruit
Fruit is full of fructose.
5. Take One Day Off Per Week
Binge Day helps you stick with the diet longer than without it. Ferriss also writes, that a caloric spike helps with the fat loss due to hormonal changes.
Personally Rules 1-4 make a lot of sense to me, Rule 5, however I am skeptical of. On the one hand, this is a restrictive diet and you might completely lose it and eat a baker's dozen of bagels if you don't allow yourself a "cheat" occasionally, on the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if you don't cheat you'd get there faster.
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