Starting Tim Ferris’s diet today from his book “The Four Hour Body” referred to as a “Slow Carb Diet”. This means that your source of carbs will come from very slow release low glycemic index carbs like beans, lentils and vegetables. Basically this diet has the following guidelines:

1) Avoid “white” carbohydrates or starch based carbs.
2) Don’t drink calories.
3) Don’t eat fruit.
4) Take one day off per week and go nuts.

So the diet basically gives you 1 day per week to go crazy and eat anything you want. ANYTHING. In fact you actually have to eat quite a bit on this day to stimulate the hormones and get the reset your body needs to keep losing body fat. I’m daydreaming of all the things I plan to eat on this day. Oh my god it’s going to be a fiesta.

This diet certainly isn’t one I would ever stay on for extended periods of time, but I do want to try it out and see just how low I can take my body fat levels. Tim claims this is one of only 2 diets he has tried that has produced veins on his abdomen. There are other very similar diets that bodybuilders use to cut body fat down to sub 5% levels before a contest.

My weight today is 227 and my bodyfat level is reading 19% with the bio-impidence monitor.