Here’s my take on a classic Cuban recipe – grilled chicken with black beans. Ingredients: Chicken 1 lb chicken breasts, pounded thin Cumin Lime Juice Salt and Pepper 1/2 Cup Chopped Yellow Onion 2 Cloves Finely Chopped Garlic Dry Oregano Olive Oil Beans 2 15oz cans of Black Beans (Beans removed and rinsed) 1 Cup [...]
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I’ve now completed 8 weeks – nearly two months – on the Slow Carb Diet created by Tim Ferris and explained in The 4-Hour Body. In the past 8 weeks, I have: Lost 15 pounds Cut my body fat level from over 20% to under 13% Increased my energy levels Increased my feeling of overall [...]
READ MORE »I set out at the beginning of this year with a goal of reaching 10% body fat. Thanks to the Slow Carb Diet, I have been making outstanding progress towards this goal over the last 7 weeks. Now that I am getting closer to it, I’m realizing just how SKINNY I look! If you’ve been [...]
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In week seven, my weight stayed consistent from the week before. This is another example of a situation in which if I hadn’t been taking measurements each week, I would have thought no progress had been made. Fortunately, the measurements tell a different story! Based on my measurements for this week, my body fat % [...]
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Alright slow carbers! I hear a lot of comments about how the slow carb diet is hard to follow because there’s nothing interesting to eat that fits it. That’s just not true! Here’s a recipe for a DELICIOUS beef stew that is both slow carb friendly and extremely nutritious. Ingredients: 1 – 28oz can of [...]
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Today was the conclusion of my sixth week of Tim Ferris’ Slow Carb Diet. I have now gone from 21% to 13% body fat in six weeks! Here’s the detail of my progress for the week: 1 lb net loss in weight Decrease in body fat % from 13.51% to 12.99% I’m continuing to see [...]
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about just how over the top I’ve been going on my off day on the Slow Carb Diet. A lot of people seem to think you can’t go too overboard or you’ll ruin all the progress. In my experience, that’s not true at all. Check out the smorgasbord [...]
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Another week of the slow carb diet, another week of solid progress! For a summary of my first four weeks of progress, see my earlier post here. During week five, I cut the PAGG stack that Tim discusses in The 4-Hour Body, in order to gauge any change in progress as a result. Otherwise, I [...]
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Well, this time I got a picture of the breakfast. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a picture of dinner. Happy hour with an important client turned into a full blown sit down meal, and stopping everyone so I could take pictures would have been too strange even for me. That being said, here is [...]
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I am a frequent business traveler. Like other business travelers, I have had difficulties over the years in consistently finding healthy eating options while on the road. You have to eat every meal in a restaurant. Often, there is pressure from others in a teaming environment to eat at restaurants where healthy options aren’t the [...]
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