Progress update: Week 6 of Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet
The halfway mark of my 3 month plan!
This week, I tried to dine out almost everyday for lunch. I’m in a sales type job, and not meeting clients for lunch/dinner/coffee isn’t productive for my business! Just take for example yesterday, I had 2 coffee (tea rather) sessions at starbucks, lunch, and dinner out of my usual routine. Although I would do the same, that is, no rice/noodles/white carbs, and more protein. My difficulty would be that most places don’t really serve beans, and I don’t eat any vegetables at all. So it’s almost like an all meat diet, which I think is quite bad for the digestive system and all. So we’ll have to adapt.
Anyway, Quick Recap,
Week 0 : 80.6kg, 24.6% BF, total inches of 268cm
Week 1 : 78.7kg, 24.5% BF, total inches of 260.4cm
Week 2 : 78.2kg, 23.4% BF, total inches of 261.9cm
Week 3: 77.5kg, 23.3% BF, total inches of 260.7cm
Week 4: 76.7kg, 23.1% BF, total inches of 259.6cm.
Week 5: 75.8kg, 21.7% BF, total inches of 258.2cm.
Week 6: 76.0kg, 21.6% BF, total inches of 256.5cm.
Interestingly, this is the first week my weight didn’t drop. Although body fat percentages and total inches seem to be accelerating downwards. Compared to Week 0 measurements, My waist dropped from 90.5cm to current 83.5cm. That’s 2.7inches off!
I have a feeling last week’s binge had to do with the smaller drop this week. But again, 1 instance of measurement is hardly conclusive in any experiment. I think if I am able to get below 70kg, or below 19% BF, or below 77cm for the waist, I would be very pleased! If it takes till the end of the year, so be it!
Gym routine is still the same. My highest kettlebell swing is now 35rep in the first set. So a slight improvement. I would actually be going bangkok on the 24th July week. So I *may* not follow the diet strictly then. Let’s see how it goes!
I actually did blood tests before I began the diet, and I would be taking blood tests again at the end of the 3 months. So I’ll post the results then. I’m guessing with the food/exercise/supplementation, there should be significant changes in my sugar/cholesterol levels.
Any thoughts on why my results are stagnating? Is it really due to the reduced bean intake? Since I am keeping my meat intake constant, just that probably there is a reduced bean and slightly increased simple carb intake.
Related posts:
- Progress update: Week 10 of Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet
- Progress update: Week 7 of Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet
- Progress update: Week 4 of Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet
- Progress update: Week 3 of Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet
- Progress update: Week 5 of Tim Ferriss Slow Carb Diet
- Progress update: Week 1 of Tim Ferriss’ Slow Carb Diet
- Progress update: Week 2 of Tim Ferriss’ Slow Carb Diet
