Feeling Great
While many people focus on the weight or body re-composition benefits the Four Hour Body approach to eating provides, I think it important to point out that most people doing it report “I’m feeling great”.
I can certainly attest that to that. For the last few years, since a head injury, I’ve had what I describe as a “cloudy” head. I functioned, but I never felt “sharp” or “on” as I had for decades past. I’ve felt markedly “on” since starting this diet – except for binge day.
Dinner
My father-in-law has had knee replacement surgery and is recuperating at a convalescent clinic. The movie theatre ads claim it to be a “world class” facility, but their meals seem more “city class”. So we brought over dinner from Chilis. I got this:
Margarita Chicken, Lime Shrimp, Broccoli, Black Beans
We ate this early, and by 9:30, and after a walk, I was hungry. So… I whipped up this simple dish:
Hamburger patty (grilled in Foreman Grill), Organic Lentils from can.
A splash of Worstishire sauce on the burger.
It took all of 5 minutes to make, tasted great, and I ate it all.
January 7th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
I have to concur with you on feeling great on this diet.
I am following the diet about the same as you. Doing my own, slow resistance workout, not kettlebells. I am also doing the cold showers and the ice pack that Ferriss describes in the “Ice Age” chapter of the book, so that could be part of the impact. So it is a little different. I am also 46.
So far, I have lost some weight (6 to 10 pounds depending on the weigh-in time). And I have lost that weight while working out fairly intensely, which usually leads to slight weight gain for me.
More interesting, though, are the other impacts. I had a bad right knee, which had been getting steadily worse for about 3 months and was quite painful a few weeks ago. It is fine now. I had a weird pain in my right abdomen, which my doctor suggested may have been excess fat in the liver (lovely thought, that – making pate inside). That pain is gone. It is hard to think that these improvements are just from a small amount of weight difference. My admittedly ill-informed guess is that they come from a reduction of inflammation.
Finally, I have a job where I get little sleep during the week. I am usually wiped out by the time Friday rolls around. Not the last several Fridays, though.
Thanks for blogging your experience. It is a helpful motivator.
January 7th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Pete – I’m seeing similar results, in terms of less aches and pains. And I can even read a font smaller on my Kindle. Weird (-:
January 7th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Crazy. Pretty cool stuff.
December 21st, 2011 at 10:37 am
# Dear Somdutt Shukla ji,