Hubby On Board

Ok, since we've started this diet (based on Tim Ferriss's 4hour body) here's what we CAN'T have: carbs, rice, potatoes, pasta (anything white), sugar, fruit, dairy or alcohol (except for red wine). Man, that's a lot of "can't haves". That's everything that tastes good or just about everything you use to make things taste good. Here's what we CAN have: black coffee, vegetables, eggs, meat, beans, beans and more beans.  Gee that’s not many "can haves", but we also get to drink two glasses of red wine a night (now we're talkin') and get one cheat day a week where we can eat anything we want for 24hrs (hooray!).  After six days on the diet you get to cheat on the seventh day, so you get to choose what day you want your cheat day to be. For example: we started our diet on a Tuesday so that makes our cheat day on Mondays. We really look forward to Mondays; it's like our pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. One thing about this diet is it does involve a lot of cooking, so if you don't have the time to cook something every day (usually three meals a day) then this may not be the diet for you.  Since we are supposed to eat protein within thirty minutes after waking up, sometimes we make hard boiled eggs or egg muffins the day before, for a quick grab on your way out the door breakfast. We usually go to Costo or our local grocery store and shop for enough food to make for the entire week since there are three of us on this diet. Yep, Jenn's hubby jumped on board the slow carb train too and he doesn't even need to lose weight. Well, he didn't really have a choice because he has to eat whatever the sista wives cook unless he wants to cook for himself (and that ain't happening). He just didn't have to go to the extreme that we are, by cutting out everything until cheat day, but after that first week on the diet he expressed that he was surprised at how satisfied and full he was eating this way and decided to go all in. He said he's never hungry (which is a miracle because the man can put away some food) and he notices a difference in how good it makes him feel. We happen to agree that you will not starve on this diet, but you have to get creative with your recipes because you may get tired of eating the same things over and over again. We will post some of the recipes we came up with on our site. Thus far, we’ve been very dedicated and have stuck to the diet - but man we do have our mental breakdown moments where we start jonesing for something like potato chips. It usually happens a day or two right before our cheat day (and sometimes the day after) where we have to talk each other down off the ledge.  At present, we have been successful at not succumbing to those temptations because we know we will have the potato chips eventually, we just need to be patient and wait for cheat day.  That's why we go cuckoo for cocoa puffs crazy on cheat day because all of our wildest taste bud dreams come true. It's a total celebration!! We've been very dedicated thus far because we want to be healthy and look and feel good for ourselves. OK, and also for the fact that we want to get our asses into that one pair of jeans still hanging in our closet from the year 1995 that we have kept, but no longer fit into. So will it suffice to say that we are on a roll? Oh man, did we just say roll? Damn it, now we want a sandwich, or jalapeño cornbread, or a butter croissant or...."Come Monday, we'll be alright"...