Update on Tim F and his "Slow Carb"

Well, this is a nice start to the year!  This is working nicely so far.  I'm bringing this to the "paleo blog' which has sat unnoticed for a long time, because this latest venture takes us very close to paleo country :)

It's been ten days into the new year, and i've lost three of the 25 pounds i wanted to lose, which is pretty nice progress.

The "Slow Carb" diet that Tim Ferriss talks about in his book "The Four Hour Body" is part of what we're doing, but we're also following a bunch of bizarre sounding ideas re: fitness, cheat day, workouts and exercises (a new exercise for me :  cat vomit?  Also "myotatic crunches" - i don't know why he gives them such strange names, but they *work*, especially for a mom who's had abdominal diastasis.

All during the week we are eating "clean" which according to this regime means no white flour, no sugar, no fruit, no dairy,  no potatoes, rice, grains of any kind...  It kind of leaves us with meat and vegetables (although once i get my shipment of almonds i'm making those little "raw chocolate" balls from Serene Allison's cookbook!)

But then, on Friday, it's all rules out the window, and all the things i wanted all week long i can have :)  Last friday i ate a kind of stale, but still delicious, marshmallow square - you know those ones made with peanut butter, coconut, marshmallows, toffee chips?  The ones that were always a hit at church socials, oh, thirty years ago?  I made some "for the children" around Christmas, popped them in the freezer of the fridge and forgot.  When i found them and realized what they were (opaque tupperware!) - i shared them all out, but left a couple in  a ziplock for Friday :)....

I think i'll just do the measurements once a month, so that i'm more likely to see results, but i'm weighing just about every day (so is T)...

And we're working out every other day (we could do more, but this is doable for me right now) - i don't think we've had one workout that lasted more than 15 minutes, but they are generally pretty intense while we're working.  Hard to enter on loseit.com as they don't know what to make of crossfit workouts like Fran where you have 21 reps of something and something else, then 15 of each, then 9  of each - was that five minutes of each?  Anyway, a little guesstimating is going into logging the exercises, but this is working!