Just got the book today, so still reading about the diet and "fat bombs".
I should be able to get the book completed and up on the diet by the beginning of next week.
Have you been following the diet for very long?


I did try the negative training exercises today, and found them very challenging and can see that as being a very interesting approach to weight training.

Thanks for the invite! I just got the book on my kindle and will read it when I break for lunch at work. Sounds very interesting.

I got the book a couple weeks ago and started the workouts last Friday. The first workout I don't think I challenged myself sufficiently,(the weights were not high enough,) but since the 2nd workout on Tuesday, (I upped all the weights 5-30 lbs depending on the exercise I was doing) I've been feeling what is described in the book, mainly more hunger and more tired. I used a foam roller to help with the sore muscles, I didn't do a cold plunge, but I did hang out with a U-shaped cold pack for 30 minutes and took a cold shower (hated that shower!!) I also struggle with getting 8-9 hours of sleep, I typically only get 6 a day during the week and then catch up on the weekend. I've been trying to increase it and I'm doing about 7 a night average.

After one week, I'm up 1 lb., but I think because I really didn't do the first workout correctly, and because until this week, I'd been eating at 1000-1100 calories, so I'm going up to 1400. I'll consider the first day as Tuesday 5/6 and will weigh in then.

Thanks for starting the group! I've been looking for a place to share and ask questions about this program. I feel strongly that is great, I've done so much research and Dr. Darden has it right!

Starting tomorrow. I am also training for a half marathon, will that negatively impact my results?

Hey guys

I bought the book yesterday and I got to say that this looks too good to be true (well, except for the 1400 kcal). I sure hope it works, since I have70lb to loose (gosh that's a lot! I did the math just now and I cannot believe this...).
I am planning to start the program in 2 weeks, so I'll get back here then.

Cheers!

So, I've been poking around here and it doesn't seem like there's regular reporting from people doing the BFB, but I thought I'd check in, anyway. So, I exercise at least 6 days a week, between horseback riding, rock climbing, the gym and various fitness challenges (lately) but I am not seeing the results I want. I lost 20lbs in the past year and then plateaued--hard. I started incorporating weight training two months ago to try and boost results, but I simply can't lose the last 10lbs. I kept getting an email from Women's Health nagging me about this book, so with 10 days left before the beach, and a little more squishyness left than I'd like, I figured, what the heck? It does seem too good to be true, and after doing the first set of exercises, and swapping out the chair chinup for the more advanced negative-only chinup since I climb and have more hanging strength, I can say that some of the exercises seemed somewhat difficult, but overall, I didn't find it hard to do 30 seconds immediately. I started moderate with the weights to get a feel for it, but will likely up them for Thursday's workout.

For people who did this and stuck with it--what kind of results can you really see in the first week? I'd like to believe this will work, but it just seemed a little too easy. I eat very clean/healthy, with enough calories, but not too many, plenty of good fats, etc, and do have a high level of base fitness--but I can't escape this persistent layer of fat over it all, and that is what I'm trying to get rid of.

Did anyone incorporate a plank/squat challenge with this? I've been doing both for the past two weeks and I don't want to throw them away if I don't have to. I guess I don't have enough faith that BFB will be enough on its own.