Tim Ferriss Diet – Week 2 – Recreational Eating
Today is the beginning of my third week on the Tim Ferriss diet. In case I haven’t made it clear, this diet is extremely challenging.
I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I’m not eating any bread or grains, but I feel really dizzy and weak most of the time. I think it’s some kind of low blood sugar reaction. I basically feel like a zombie half the time. It’s like my brain just can’t think. I’m muddled by a cloud of hunger and spaced out for hours on end. I’m sure it’s really impacting my productivity in a negative way.
Eating is strange. Everything I eat seems to disappear as soon as I eat it. Nothing makes me feel full for more than a few minutes. I feel like I’m trapped in some strange fairy tale where all the food is enchanted by some kind of spell that makes it vanish as soon as you swallow it.
Overall though, the diet isn’t all that hard for me. I’m a pretty austere guy. I think it is only a real challenge for recreational eaters. By recreational eaters, I mean people that eat to be entertained. They wash all sorts of flavors across their tongue for the thrill of taste. If their bored they chomp down on something sweet.
Perhaps that’s why they say us Americans are so fat. A suburban lifestyle that encourages little physical activity mixed with the elevation of eating into a sport and the end result is overweight people.
I mean if you’re bored, wouldn’t a candy bar be a nice thrill? I fun, if not temporary, distraction? It makes me wonder if all these people use food as way of insulating themselves from some kind of suffering? Maybe the feeling that their pouring their lives down the drain working 9-5 for a quick buck. Maybe something else entirely.
Thankfully I’ve never been much of a recreational eater. Yes, I do have my moments, but all in all it’s not that bad. On my days off the diet I don’t go too crazy. I just make sure I eat dairy, carbs, and some fruit. I only really do that to make sure I’m getting at least a bit of each food group. How much would it suck if you got scurvy from doing this diet and getting some vitamin C on your day off?
So far, I’m definitely losing weight. I don’t know how much exactly because I don’t have a scale. But I do feel much trimmer and I feel like a few pockets of “thesis weight” are starting to feel a little tighter. My girlfriend seems to be losing weight as well. She is just brushing it off and making up excuses about why it can’t be true, but I can tell she is slimming down.
I’m almost halfway through the diet. Only three more weeks to go!
PS: I recently discovered that you should avoid eating more that just a few nuts each day on this diet. I wish I knew that earlier, but there’s still two more weeks to go…
October 21st, 2009 at 3:20 am
Hi Clayton,
How are you been watching you at Affilorama and your posts…
Like you its all new to me too and my aim is to be totally mobile and have my business in a Laptop no odds where I might be…
I am in the throws of purchasing an RV and hitting Europe this coming year so armed with the laptop and a dongle for internet connection I will be on my way.
Hope it works out and you get your dreams, oh and if you are ever passing give me a shout sometime
Regards
Sam
October 21st, 2009 at 9:53 am
@Sam,
Thanks for stopping by. Are you building any affilorama-style websites? Man, it’s a lot of work, especially if you do it all yourself!
Good luck with your RV trip. If you get the chance, I highly recommend Amalfi in Italy (though I’m not sure how an RV would handle in the winding streets there).
Take Care,
Clayton