50 Days on the 4-Hour Body (4HB)

The 4 Hour Body diet in a nutshell:
For 6 continuous days a week, eat protein (preferably lean), beans/legumes and veggies at every meal. No fruits, dairy, sugars, simple or complex carbs. Only carbs from the veggies and beans are accepted, and yet, with caution. Have 3 or more meals per day. The 7th day is Cheat day. Throw all caution to the wind and go hog wild with food if you want. There are guidelines to minimize damage here, available in the book by Tim Ferris.

So, I decided to give myself 7 weeks, this started yesterday. Let's track the progress here daily :)

What I hope to achieve in 7 weeks:
Simple. That this type of eating becomes second nature to me and that cheat days become attractive but not binges anymore.

What I hope to achieve by the end of 2012:
Fat loss (not muscle loss) of 5kg. This may be quite a stretch, because I'm not actually sure I have or can lose 5 kg of fat. Well, we'll take it as it comes, observe and tweak the method.

Current waist size: 25.5 or 26 inches.

I'm happy with this but hope to reach maybe 24.5 inches by year end. Not a priority but just fun to dream about this.

I'm not relying too much on weight because I want to replace fats with muscles and achieve more definition. Also, I suspect my weighing scale is off by 4kg. I vaguely recall this from my pregnancy weigh ins at the gynae and noticing the home scale was always lighter by 4kg haha!

So, on my weighing scale, I was 55kg last September and I never weighed myself until 2 weeks ago and the scale showed 50kg. This morning, it showed 49kg. Assuming it's off by 4kg, I should be 53kg now. Heavy by my standards but because my size 26 jeans are loose now, I know I lost fat and gained muscle and I'm extremely happy about that!

I'll still be continuing with my 12min workouts 4 to 5 times a week but won't be discussing them much here as they've become a set routine for me. Nothing new to report about them, except that I love them:)

Wish me luck!