Slow Carb Diet
youngriem
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How many of you are familiar with the book "The Four Hour Body"? If your not and have never heard of the slow carb diet, then you are missing out! So basic rules are simple :
1) Avoid white carbohydrates
2) Eat the same few meals over and over
3) Don’t drink calories
4) Don’t eat fruit
5) Take one day off per week
So in a nutshell: Eat lean meats, beans, and veggies. Don’t eat fruit, white foods (bread, potatoes, pasta), or sugar. Give yourself a cheat day each week, where you’re allowed to eat any of the banned foods.
Within 30 minutes of waking, get 30g of protein in your system. Drink plenty of water to balance out your body. Also, the supplements and vitamins you take are very important. Alpha Lipoic Acid help to send the protein that you eat to the right parts of your body, Green Tea has an ingredient (egg) that's helps remove fat deposits and garlic help to stabilize blood sugar levels.
I used this system before and went from 240 - 215 over a period of several months! So I fell all the way off the wagon and now I'm back on! Hope this helps! See you all at our goals
Peace & Love
1) Avoid white carbohydrates
2) Eat the same few meals over and over
3) Don’t drink calories
4) Don’t eat fruit
5) Take one day off per week
So in a nutshell: Eat lean meats, beans, and veggies. Don’t eat fruit, white foods (bread, potatoes, pasta), or sugar. Give yourself a cheat day each week, where you’re allowed to eat any of the banned foods.
Within 30 minutes of waking, get 30g of protein in your system. Drink plenty of water to balance out your body. Also, the supplements and vitamins you take are very important. Alpha Lipoic Acid help to send the protein that you eat to the right parts of your body, Green Tea has an ingredient (egg) that's helps remove fat deposits and garlic help to stabilize blood sugar levels.
I used this system before and went from 240 - 215 over a period of several months! So I fell all the way off the wagon and now I'm back on! Hope this helps! See you all at our goals
Peace & Love
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Unsustainable IMO, hence you have to do it again. Why not just log your intake and add some exercise for health. Just eat food you like not a diet with a bunch of rules.0
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Actually, I was in it for almost a year and maintained a very good physique while starting an excercise program. The reason I fell off, well I got married lol. It actually worked for me and help me transform my body. It may be unsustainable for most people but it helped me.
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I eat everything in moderation and make sure my calorie counting is accurate, hiking mostly but joint issues prevent me from much more. I thought Tim Ferris' book was full of misconceptions.0
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I lost 121 pounds just eating what I want in moderation, now maintaining for over 16 months now.
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@youngriem You should join the Low Carbers Daily Form group. All of the members are doing some form of low-carb diet. You'll find a wealth of information and support on that forum!0
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I follow a slow carb diet, but NOT Tim Ferris's. I follow one I devised for myself and then modified when the South Beach Diet came out (the original formal slow carb diet).0
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I fail to see what a diet like that would teach you. OK, so you have to follow a bunch of rules. What do you learn? Personally, weighing, measuring, and logging has taught me more in the past 1 1/2 years than over my lifetime of trying different diets, each with varying rules. Learning about what my body requires calorically and what it takes to achieve a deficit, along with the caloric contents of what I like to eat, has led to results and maintaining of those results. I've learned valuable life lessons and will never fall off the wagon or stop, because this is now my lifestyle. I've witnessed that deprivation only leads to failure and stoppage of effort.0
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Awesome stuff @queenliz99 before the slow carb diet, I was at a crazy weight and I was just looking for an interesting change up and that was it. I like your moderation style and it def seems to work for you. Tim is a very interesting guy. He is extreme at times yet he worked for me.
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@Equus5374 well what it helped me with was showing me how you can transform your body to the way you want it. I maintained that way of life for almost a year. It allowed me to get my discipline back that I was missing for awhile. Not only that, it taught me that lifestyle change wasn't about watching my weight or counting anything, it was about what my body responded to. When I eat bread, my body gains weight extremely fast..when I don't, it drops off. When I eat potatoes or cheese on a regular everyday, my body doesn't drop the weight. It showed me how sometimes vitamins can add in your goals. It isn't for everyone and it isn't for every body type, but mine liked it and responded well to it.0
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@Sabine_Stroehm it's funny you say "one you divised" because once I started on it the first time, I tweaked it to fit my goals. What did you do to change it?0
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@Sabine_Stroehm it's funny you say "one you divised" because once I started on it the first time, I tweaked it to fit my goals. What did you do to change it?
My approach has NOTHING TO DO with Ferriss's. He was probably in high school when I started slow carbing.
I read his book when it came out (i'd been slow carbing for 8-9 years by then probably) and to be honest I sorta shook my head. His seemed rather gimmicky. And somewhat random in ways.
For the last 14 or so years, I've focused on nutrient dense, high fiber carbs. I limit heavily refined, nutrient poor carbs.
I started this journey in about 2001 (or 2002). I heard an NPR interview about glycemic load/impact. It made sense to me, and my eating habits. I started researching it. I ate that way for about a year and then I heard another interview and realized that the guy with the funny speech in the first interview was probably Dr. Agatston from the (then very new) South Beach Diet. And what I'd heard in 2001 or 2001 was probably him.
My point: the logical things Ferriss says aren't really new. Nor did he coin the phrase "slow carb" as is claimed.
Good luck finding what works for you because in reality, for the ultimate goal of maintenance, that's what really matters.0 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »@Sabine_Stroehm it's funny you say "one you divised" because once I started on it the first time, I tweaked it to fit my goals. What did you do to change it?
My approach has NOTHING TO DO with Ferriss's. He was probably in high school when I started slow carbing.
I read his book when it came out (i'd been slow carbing for 8-9 years by then probably) and to be honest I sorta shook my head. His seemed rather gimmicky. And somewhat random in ways.
For the last 14 or so years, I've focused on nutrient dense, high fiber carbs. I limit heavily refined, nutrient poor carbs.
I started this journey in about 2001 (or 2002). I heard an NPR interview about glycemic load/impact. It made sense to me, and my eating habits. I started researching it. I ate that way for about a year and then I heard another interview and realized that the guy with the funny speech in the first interview was probably Dr. Agatston from the (then very new) South Beach Diet. And what I'd heard in 2001 or 2001 was probably him.
My point: the logical things Ferriss says aren't really new. Nor did he coin the phrase "slow carb" as is claimed.
Good luck finding what works for you because in reality, for the ultimate goal of maintenance, that's what really matters.
Awesome stuff! Yeah I read his first book and was intrigued by the second one. Being a young guy, I'd never heard of the concept before. Slow carb works tho and it helps me.
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I like Ferriss' podcasts a lot, maybe check 'em out. Always interesting guests and good questions.
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »@Sabine_Stroehm it's funny you say "one you divised" because once I started on it the first time, I tweaked it to fit my goals. What did you do to change it?
My approach has NOTHING TO DO with Ferriss's. He was probably in high school when I started slow carbing.
I read his book when it came out (i'd been slow carbing for 8-9 years by then probably) and to be honest I sorta shook my head. His seemed rather gimmicky. And somewhat random in ways.
For the last 14 or so years, I've focused on nutrient dense, high fiber carbs. I limit heavily refined, nutrient poor carbs.
I started this journey in about 2001 (or 2002). I heard an NPR interview about glycemic load/impact. It made sense to me, and my eating habits. I started researching it. I ate that way for about a year and then I heard another interview and realized that the guy with the funny speech in the first interview was probably Dr. Agatston from the (then very new) South Beach Diet. And what I'd heard in 2001 or 2001 was probably him.
My point: the logical things Ferriss says aren't really new. Nor did he coin the phrase "slow carb" as is claimed.
Good luck finding what works for you because in reality, for the ultimate goal of maintenance, that's what really matters.
Awesome stuff! Yeah I read his first book and was intrigued by the second one. Being a young guy, I'd never heard of the concept before. Slow carb works tho and it helps me.
Thanks for the insight
Slow carbing is a great approach. and and EASY way to work toward maintaining weight loss, which is, of course, our ultimate goal!0 -
Congrats for your weight loss! Everyone has different way that suit their body and mind! It's good that you found one and thank you for sharing 1
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I agree with your approach @youngriem
Thanks! Preciate it.0 -
feisty_bucket wrote: »I like Ferriss' podcasts a lot, maybe check 'em out. Always interesting guests and good questions.
Yeah Ferris has a lot of interesting approaches. His concept of time and body and lifestyle engineering has always fascinated me0 -
Janehds0284 wrote: »Congrats for your weight loss! Everyone has different way that suit their body and mind! It's good that you found one and thank you for sharing
Yes ma'am! Thank you. I believe everyone needs to fine what suits them. Your body will tell you what's right and wrong if you listen to it.0 -
I don't particularly care for diet plans that demonize whole foods...fruit and potatoes are very much a staple of my diet and I consider them to be highly nutritious foods. I had no issues losing my weight and I've maintained it going on three years this spring and I don't log.0
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cwolfman13 wrote: »I don't particularly care for diet plans that demonize whole foods...fruit and potatoes are very much a staple of my diet and I consider them to be highly nutritious foods. I had no issues losing my weight and I've maintained it going on three years this spring and I don't log.
That's awesome that your body responds well to those foods. This particular diet, In my opinion, gets you to a specific goal and allows your body to execute on a certain level. Certain foods my body loves and responds well to and certain foods it doesn't. I get my fix of fruits and vegetable at certain times of the week. I ain't gone lie tho, I'm a sucker for potatoes lol0 -
Why is everyone hating on a guy promoting eating whole foods? I can understand not agreeing about the fruit but that's a point of contention, it's not like youngriem is trying to sell beachbody supplements or some other gimmick.1
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I have gone back an forth with the the 4 hour body/ slow carb eating. I found it difficult to sustain and every time I would be a couple months into it I would start getting unusual cramps, visible toes curling back. I figured I had some sort of mineral deficiency, as soon as I'd stop, the cramps would go away. My brother and his girlfriend on the other hand, have had great success with slow carbing and have sustained it for several years.
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Why is everyone hating on a guy promoting eating whole foods? I can understand not agreeing about the fruit but that's a point of contention, it's not like youngriem is trying to sell beachbody supplements or some other gimmick.
Why can't white carbohydrates also be whole foods?
Why can't "drinking calories" be drinking whole foods?
Avoiding fruit seems really silly and even more silly if someone is promoting the eating of whole foods (which I would agree is a good thing).
But approaches and adherence are very individual, to me none of the five points stated in the OP would suit me in the slightest. If those approaches work for others then it's no skin off my nose!
BTW it's not "hating" to debate or state individual preferences or viewpoints.0 -
No fruit??? Oh nah .. I gotta have my fruit.. I love making my fruit salads.0
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Just do fruit for breakfast but that diet works that's for sure0
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