Tim Ferriss is a high profile Internet entrepreneur who’s most claim to fame is writing The Four Hour Workweek which has since become a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller. He is the kind of person that tries out whatever he thinks up, just to prove he can do it.
When it came to the whole ‘bodybuilding’ thing he decided to make a go of it and ended up making quite an amazing transformation.
Back in April 2007 Tim decided he needed to get rid of the extra flab across his stomach. And in this article he explains (in his own words) that “…this is the only diet … that has produced veins across my abdomen, which is the last place I lose fat (damn you, Scandinavian genetics).”
The amazing thing is it only took him 30 days to lose 20 pounds of fat (and gain 10 pounds of muscle at the same time).
He credits his success to four simple rules;
1. Avoid “white” carbohydrates
2. Eat the same few meals over and over again
3. Don’t drink calories
4. Take one day off per week
Four rules shouldn’t be too hard to follow, right?
Regarding rule 1: Tim allows these foods if it is 1.5 hours (or less) before or after resistance training. This rule doesn’t quite work for me as I like to workout first thing in the morning. But then, only true ‘white’ foods I eat are potatoes and rice.
Regarding rule 4: Personally I wouldn’t take a whole day off to binge eat like Tim recommends. It is good to have cheat meals every so often, but putting bad food through your system for an entire day is not going to help your progress. Also, if you restrict your cheat meals to just one day of the week, you could find yourself in a pickle at other times during the week when there is no choice but unhealthy food (or when it is unhealthy to refuse the food offered).
Has anyone had any success with this diet?
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