So, 1st of June. Not only important as it's my husband's birthday, but its the day the Strickers clan have embarked on Tim Ferris's '4 Hour Body'. In fact the 4 hours in our case is not relevant, the title refers to how you can build a body you want in only 4 hours of exercise in a month. Yep, you read it right readers, a month!
Given that I'm teaching 9 classes a week, I can't experiment on that like he says so I thought I would try the 'recomp your body' challenge instead. All of us in the house have a reason to shift some poundage and so we started today!
I like to see how these things work. So with 4 people of different body types, metabolisms and lifestyles in this house we have all agreed to follow it for at least 4 weeks. One fairly sedentary adult male, one adult female fitness instructor, one almost 18 year old female newly out of college and working in retail, one 16 year old female student with a prom dress to wear on 30th June!
So I did everyone's body fat measurement, circumferential measurements, took pics in undies front on, side on, rear on. As we have visible, measurable evidence now, we'd better start!
The rules are: (quite similar to Fit Camp rules really)
1) no white carbohydrate foods (or foods that could be white with refining) . Foods like sugar, flour, pasta, spuds...usual suspects really and not a problem for me, the rest of my gang may well miss spuds.
2) eat 4 times a day. COOL!! This does mean no snacking though (a possible problem for 16 year old) but when he lists it as breakfast, lunch, 2nd lunch and dinner. We reckon that's decadent and feel like we're being spoiled!
3) don't drink calories (problem for 18 year old who likes fruit juice)
4) don't eat fruit
5) take one day off per week (and eat what you want! :-) ) -- kind of liking this idea!
So, today I had:
Breakfast: courgette, onion, spinach and garlic 2 egg omelette, with lettuce, guacamole and cannellini beans.
Lunch 1: Salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrots) cold roast chicken thigh, refried beans, guacamole.
Lunch 2: Salad, tuna, white beans
Dinner: Vietnamese River Cobbler dusted in almond flour and shallow fried, stir fried onion, carrot, broccoli, peas, mashed cannellini beans (almost like mashed spuds!)
Feel neither stuffed, nor hungry. Day one done!
My weight this morning - 12 st 7lbs, BodyFat 22.9%
