The Slow Carb Diet
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- The Slow Carb Diet was popularized by Tim Ferriss in his book, "The 4-Hour Body"
- If you follow the Slow Carb Diet for the next month, it’s not unreasonable to expect to lose 10–20 lbs of fat. This is true even without exercise.
- “You lose ounces in the gym, but you lose pounds in the kitchen.”
- Rules
- Avoid “white” starchy carbohydrates.
- No bread, rice, cereal, potatoes, pasta, tortillas, grains, and fried food with breading.
- Eat the same few meals over and over again.
- You already do this; you’re just picking new default meals.
- Don’t drink calories.
- Exception: 1–2 glasses of dry red wine per night is allowed.
- Don’t eat fruit.
- Generally speaking: Fructose glycerol phosphate more body fat.
- Five hundred years ago, your ancestors probably didn’t eat oranges in December.
- Get vitamin C from your veggies.
- Take one day off per week.
- You can eat whatever you want.
- Not 24 hours, just one day of the week.
- Tim recommends Saturday, often nicknamed “Faturday” by followers.
- The meals
- Build each of your meals from the list below, picking one item from each of the three groups.
- Proteins: eggs, chicken, beef, fish, pork, lamb.
- Legumes: lentils, black beans, pinto beans, red beans, soybeans.
- Vegetables: spinach, mixed vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower, sauerkraut, kimchi, asparagus, peas, green beans.
- Other tips
- Eat as much as you like.
- There is no calorie counting whatsoever on the SCD.
- Eat 30 g of protein within 30 minutes of waking up.
- Get at least 20 g of protein per meal.
- Eating more frequent meals appears to have no enhancing effect on resting metabolic rate.
- Drink more water.
- If your liver is burdened with dehydration, it won’t metabolize body fat
well.
- If you have to ask, don’t eat it
- Stop stalling. If you eat the way that made
you fat, you will remain fat—period. Don’t use incomplete information as
an excuse for inaction.
- Tim Ferriss' The Slow-Carb Diet One-Pager