Healthy Living For Smart People
As you can see from the other posts in this series, I’m basically changing my lifestyle to match that of the Tim Ferriss 4 hour body diet (reviewed here). I’ve made one minor modification to the diet, the addition of slightly more fruit than Tim recommends, but I’m sticking pretty close to it otherwise. I’m finding the diet to be difficult in some ways but easy in others and I thought I’d detail them here for those people who are thinking about this as a permanent life style. [Read more...]
I used to believe that anyone who wanted to lose weight and get healthier needed only to “eat less, move more.” In other words, just stop eating as much calories as you are right now and start exercising and you’ll see some great results. My experiments over the past few months have revealed to me a slight (or maybe not so slight) error in my thinking. [Read more...]
I’ve been making some minor changes to my life over the past six weeks and I feel like things are finally falling into place. So, here’s the way I intend to live the rest of my life, and yes, I am very serious about that. If you’re making any health changes that you’re not willing to live with for the rest of your life, you may as well forget about them right now. Temporary changes make for temporary results. [Read more...]
Not much to report this week. I’m back down to 225, which I was disappointed with at first because I was hoping to be lower than that by this point. However, then I thought to myself, “holy crap! I’ve lost 12lbs in the past month and a half and I did it in a completely sustainable way. AWESOME!” Sometimes, you just need to remind yourself how well you’re doing overall so you don’t get too depressed with the little setbacks. [Read more...]
I’m writing this on a Saturday afternoon. I went hiking this morning and I’m about to head out later this afternoon for some outdoor fun at the park. I weighed myself on Friday and the scale showed 230lbs. Goal Achieved! However, what about all my other goals? [Read more...]
I got a question from a reader a few days ago in regards to the 4 hour body diet. He wanted to know how to maintain his weight now that he had reached his goals. Interestingly enough, it sounded like he was still losing weight, past where he wanted to be, so he was wondering what changes he should make in order to stop the weight loss but not go back up to his previous weight. [Read more...]
I had the good fortune of spending the last few days in Singapore. It’s a beautiful place and one which offers inspiration to a host of good ideas. However, for me, the thing I noticed most was how few overweight people I saw. In fact, the whole time I was there, I spotted maybe 1 or 2 overweight people who were not obvious tourists. The fitness expert in me kept wondering; what’s their secret? What are they doing to stay this skinny? We’ve all heard about the French diet or the Med diet, but what about the Singaporean diet? So I paid a bit of attention and this is what I found: [Read more...]
