4-Hour Body

Miles bought a book near the first of the year called The 4-Hour Body. It's by Tim Ferriss who also wrote The 4-Hour Work Week. Miles read through it and said that I should read it and we should start the slow-carb diet he describes in the book. I read through the parts that pertained to the diet. I liked a lot of his philosophies on losing weight, dieting, and health. He comes from a very scientific standpoint and it just seems to make sense. So we decided to start a couple weeks ago. Let me just say, I am struggling. It focuses on eating a lot of protein, legumes and vegetables. It's really not so bad and I feel like I would often eat similar meals. The hard part, however, is the things you have to avoid (bread, milk, cheese, pasta, rice, flour, potatoes, fruit, and sweets). I often find myself craving carbs. Sometimes sweets, but mostly things like a bowl of cereal or a piece of bread. I told Miles I'm not sure I can keep up with it. I'm getting bored of eating the same things over and over. We've tried to "spice" things up a bit by making garlic mashed faux-tatoes (mashed garbonzo beans) and rice-aflower (a rice substitute made out of cauliflower). But eating eggs every morning and chicken for dinner every night is just getting old. I think Miles wants to stick with it. He's already lost 10 lbs. (I'm down 5 lbs.) So I'll support him by eating what he eats for dinner, but I think I'll take my bowl of cereal and pb&j for lunch. :P Yes...I'm a pansy and couldn't hack it.