4HB day 3

This is my 3rd day on the 4-Hour Body and I've been kickin' and screaming to keep with it.  I forget how much simple carbs are in our life here in the states.  It calls from everywhere!  I'm not a big sugar fan whatsoever.  I've lived almost a whole year without having any type of candy just to see if I could and I never missed it.

Bread, corn, sugar, juices, fruit . . . the list goes on of what I cannot have.  The only reason I'm sticking with it is because I dropped 20 pounds and have been able to keep it off.  I started watching what I ate and carefully considered what I took in after I was done with my 4HB experiment.

I said to myself, "Self, let's see if we can keep the fat off".  And I have!  I've fluctuated within a 3 pound margin.  Right now I'm about 232 pounds.  I'm at the top of the 3 pounds.  I'll weigh myself again Saturday evening before my binge day.  The binge day is a necessary event during the 4HB project (it's a project now cause I know it works).  It does a couple of things: it shocks the body and it provides a psychological reward after a week of relative torture.

I remember the beginning of the program being difficult the first time I tried it but kept at it because I felt and saw a noticeable difference.  I had also begun training for the SVHM.  I was learning to cope with this and I found out I wasn't eating enough!  Why?  Because during my runs, I'd gas out fast!  I had no fuel to keep me going.  I needed to increase my carb intake somehow and that meant more beans!

One of the things to keep in mind is that you need to stay with the same menu at least every week.  Breakfast was no problem.  I had 100g of frozen spinach, 3 eggs and about a cup of lentils.  It sounds like a lot, it's not.  You're definitely eating more.  Not as much as those crazy fruitarians!  Look them up.  Those guys are INSANE!

For protein I kept it simple.  Chicken, beef (ground or flank), canned tuna, and eggs.  For veggies, it was a mixed bag of stuff from Costco (Normandy Mix) that had broccoli, cauliflower, baby carrots and some yellow vegetable.  Don't know what it is, but it's good.  The frozen spinach was also purchased at Costco.  A big three pound bag for cheap. I also bought the chicken, beef and tuna there.

For my legumes, I stuck with black beans for the most part and pinto every once in a while.  Oh, and lentils.  Can't forget those!  Lentils absorb whatever flavors you add to it so I'd use half a medium onion, two roma tomatoes, a cilantro bunch and some salt, pepper and garlic to taste. Awesome!

I used the same recipe for the black beans, but those are a bit more difficult to master.  I'm still playing with that recipe, but my last batch came up pretty good.  No tomato was used.  I think it was toughening up the bean.

And it does take a while to get used to all the legume intake.  Things get a bit exhausting . . . if you know what I mean?  There's some expansion in the gut, not due to fat but to gas.  And I don't mean burping!  You'll be tootin' is what I'm sayin'!

After a while, they don't stink.  Don't know why, but they don't.  At least they didn't for me.  I think it's because with all the fibrous material being passed through, you're literally cleaning shit out.

Ok, that's enough for today . . .

GD

p.s.
too lazy to finish AND check.  run smiley :)