Four-Hour Body week one: binge day!
Four-Hour Body: Alpha Lipoic Acid
Binge day is Tim Ferriss’ one day off per week. I have really been looking forward to this, as you might imagine if you’d seen my average day’s eating: zero refined carbs, small quantities of “slow” carbs like legumes, lots of protein, and no fruit.
I love berries and plain yoghurt with Quebec maple syrup, and used to eat them every night before bed, so that was a big loss for me, and an apple was a regular snack — not allowed.
Today’s going to be a big day — we have guests coming for supper and we’re planning a big meal with an amazing dessert. Home made Dulce de Leche Flan (based on Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk, boiled in the can for two hours to create dulce de leche, caramel of milk), wine, snacks…
With that kind of schedule lined up, I need to take precautions.
Four-Hour Body: Policonsanol
This morning, binge day, started off with a fairly normal breakfast:
- protein shake (whey powder + 1% milk)
- “Chocolate Rocket” mate tea
- With the addition of 1cup steamed spinach, as fiber to help my body process the bad stuff to come!
I also took the PAGG supplements of Policosanol, alpha-lipoic acid, green tea extract and garlic extract. This is optional on the morning of a binge day — normally PAGG is at night, AGG (all minus the policosanol) three times per day.
Four-Hour Body: Green Tea Extract
A few quick exercises: 2 mins standing squats, 2 mins wall presses, 1 min pushups. This opens the pathways to my muscles, so most of the sugar will go there instead of spiking my blood sugar level.
In the meantime, I’m off to have a coffee and cinnamon, along with lime juice in water, and a big bowl of Carolina’s homemade granola, that I’ve had to suffer the rest of the family eating for the last six days. Also a small bacon sandwich (ahh! Bread. Remember that?)
Four-Hour Body: Garlic extract
I’ll report back later with the rest of my daily menu!
