Tasty vegetables

Have you heard of the 4 Hour Body Diet? It’s one of the latest diets that’s taking the world by storm and, would you believe it, even encourages one day a week of binge eating!

One of hardest parts of dieting is having to eat healthily all the time and I’m a big believer in the idea that tasty treats – in moderation – are a good thing (being too strict just makes you crave them all the more, then if you give in, it’s easy to go mad and over-eat, leaving you back at your starting point).

Anyway, Tim Ferriss, who developed The 4 Hour Body Diet, is also a believer in the idea that treats are good for you, but he’s gone one step further in suggesting people following his diet should have one whole day a week cheating and bingeing! Not surprisingly, this caught my attention….

Tim’s reasoning behind the once weekly prescribed binge eating is that doing so will help to reset the body’s insulin sensitivity. No doubt it will also help you get all of your food cravings out of your system and set you back on the right path again the next day.

What the 4 Hour Diet involves

When not bingeing, the rest of the 4 Hour Body Diet involves eating what Tim calls slow carbs. You’re allowed to eat all vegetables, legumes and proteins, but have to cut out fruit, bread, nuts, oats and any starches. Each meal you eat has to include at least 20g protein, such as meat or fish. Put like that, it’s a good thing you can eat what you like on one day a week!

The other aspect of the 4 Hour Diet plan, and something that supposedly helps burn fat faster, is taking a series of supplements – or the PAGG Stack. This consists of four natural supplements – Poliocosanol, Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), decaffeinated Green tea flavanols and garlic extract.

If you’ve been reading my blog for long, then you’ll probably have already got the gist that I’m not a massive fan of taking diet pills. Whilst the PAGG stack is made up of supplements that are described as ‘natural,’ I’m not convinced that taking a load every day is really the right approach for long-term dieting and weight loss.

I’d be interested to hear your views, especially if you’ve tried the 4 Hour Body Diet or the PAGG Stack – what do you think about it and has it worked for you?

If you want to find out more about the 4 Hour Body Diet and the PAGG Stack, I’ve put together some more information about it.

1. by Don September 26th, 2011 2:23 pm

   you can eat nuts on the diet