Four Hour Body Diet
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@majorrage said in Four Hour Body Diet:
@stockcar86 How do you find the hunger with this?
I am low carbing / no alcohol at the moment but I am seriously hungry in the evenings.
It does work though as I've dropped 2.5kg since 31st August (most of that probably water retention from alcohol if I'm honest with myself).
@MajorRage I was fine with the hunger. I generally tried to have slow carbs (legumes) with lunch and dinner, and that helps those cravings. Also if I did get hungry, I'd have a huge spoonful of that Fix and Fogg Protein Peanut butter, and drink more water. It was hard initally (particularly at breakfast) but ensuring you have 30g of protein at each meal worked pretty well for me.
I found it difficult to drink enough water, but changed to drinking carbonated with a little lemon juice in it (1tsp per litre). Soda Sparkle has a great little carbonation unit, and they send you boxes of the CO2 cartridges through the mail at a pretty decent price.
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@stockcar86 I have a prolific lime tree, so put a couple of thick slices of lemon in my water.
I have counted calories on and off for a while, but Dr says I need to lose at least 5kgs (and said pretty much what you did in your post above about what to avoid) and get my cholesterol down, and been counting them again, in deficit last 3 days, but I did struggle last night (but was rest day form the gym, so didnt have the activity to offset and allow me to eat a bit more and stay in deficit)
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@taniwharugby said in Four Hour Body Diet:
@stockcar86 I have a prolific lime tree, so put a couple of thick slices of lemon in my water.
I have counted calories on and off for a while, but Dr says I need to lose at least 5kgs (and said pretty much what you did in your post above about what to avoid) and get my cholesterol down, and been counting them again, in deficit last 3 days, but I did struggle last night (but was rest day form the gym, so didnt have the activity to offset and allow me to eat a bit more and stay in deficit)
But what do you use the limes for?
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@stockcar86 just checked the specs on our pot of standard sanitarium peanut butter and it has just as much protein as fix and fogg claim to have 😄
It's pretty much empty now thanks to your musings tho
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@delicatessen said in Four Hour Body Diet:
@stockcar86 just checked the specs on our pot of standard sanitarium peanut butter and it has just as much protein as fix and fogg claim to have 😄
It's pretty much empty now thanks to your musings tho
mine has no salt or sugar though...
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@stockcar86 said in Four Hour Body Diet:
@delicatessen said in Four Hour Body Diet:
@stockcar86 just checked the specs on our pot of standard sanitarium peanut butter and it has just as much protein as fix and fogg claim to have 😄
It's pretty much empty now thanks to your musings tho
mine has no salt or sugar though...
No sugar in theirs. I'd rather the extra salt and half (or less) the price.
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@stockcar86 said in Four Hour Body Diet:
After hitting 76kg, and my shirts getting pretty tight around the middle,
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Book ordered, going to give it a crack.
I don't need to drink everyday, but having the option for a glass of wine most evenings will be the bomb. Don't need to eat the carbs now for the long run fuel either so this could well be something that works for me. Am kind of bored of my diet too so excited about looking for new things to try.
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@majorrage Good stuff. Let me know if I can help out with anything
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@stockcar86 said in Four Hour Body Diet:
@majorrage Good stuff. Let me know if I can help out with anything
Only 3 days in and today I feel properly awful. Body is clearly not used to zero carbs at all & I can feel I have withdrawals of something (not because I'm an addict, just googled the way I'm feeling and it's right in line with carb withdrawals). Headaches, constipation, general weakness ... TMI coming up, but it's interesting when I do manage to pass something. Sounds like a brick is hitting the water ...
I quite enjoy the diet honestly, although I struggle to see how it's going to make us reduce our meat intake due to the extra protein. Decided not to drink any wine this week too to kickstart myself into it. Scales already down 1.5kg since Sunday morning, although that's all water obviously. Have only been for one run which went fine (55 mins, 10k) today I'll run again (40 mins 7k) and that will be a test. I suspect I'll really struggle having had no raw carbs since Sunday.
The book have been absolutely compelling reading though. My brain is wired similarly to his, so wanting to really understand how you change your inputs to get your outputs has really appealed to me. I've been looking for years for that long term solution to not only lose weight, but keep it off. So far, I've found this really thought provoking.
First cheat day has already been arranged, although I think mentally I'll find it difficult to fully unload. School fireworks gala followed by pub with friends Saturday evening. Will be odd to know that I can eat / drink whatever I want given I'm in diet mode. The best thing though is that we are having friends over for Sunday roast, and I can participate at 99%. A couple of glasses of red over the afternoon, no roast potatoes and I'm fully inline with the diet. And having had carbs the day before, I should be in a decent position to do a 90 minute run in the morning too.
Mentally, that's great.
