Tim Ferriss, Fasting and Meta's New Social Media App

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Tim Ferriss and the Slow-Carb Diet

Recently I’ve been searching for ways to clean up my eating habits and stick to a routine without going on a traditional “diet.” I find that most “diets," like Keto or Carb Cycling , tend to be complicated or require a lot of extra grocery shopping to maintain.

Tim Ferriss is a podcaster and serial entrepreneur whose claim to fame started with a book called “The Four Hour Workweek ”? which outlined how to save time and energy while making more money.?

Now that I’m looking to drop some pounds, and not overcomplicate things, I decided to look back into Tim’s content to see if he had any advice. Turns out, the 4-Hour Body was a thing. So I dove in:?

The basic rules are simple:

Rule #1: Avoid “white” starchy carbohydrates (or those that can be white). This means all bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and grains. If you have to ask, don’t eat it.

Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again, especially for breakfast and lunch. You already do this; you’re just picking new default meals.

Rule #3: Don’t drink calories. Exception: 1-2 glasses of dry red wine per night is allowed.

Rule #4: Don’t eat fruit. (Fructose –> glycerol phosphate –> more bodyfat, more or less.) Avocado and tomatoes are excepted.

Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts. I choose and recommend Saturday.

I’m going to be implementing this diet from now through October to see how I like it - and ultimately if I enjoy this process I may just lean into it as a lifestyle change. Will keep you posted!

Time Restricted Feeding (TRF)

As I continued down the rabbit hole of figuring out how I wanted to structure my lifestyle change, I decided to do some additional research into ways to optimize my diet not only for weight loss, but also for energy levels.

In the past, when I would restrict my caloric intake to lose weight, I found myself struggling to stay focused for long periods of time. Not being able to focus as well, as someone that already struggles with ADHD, was not optimal. I decided to dive into Time Restricted Feeding (also sometimes known as Intermittent Fasting) to see if it would be a good fit for me.

The basics of TRF are purposefully fasting for a set amount of time. In some of the early scientific papers studying this diet style, they pushed the fasting time as far as 16hrs; however, there is research now surfacing that fasting for that long could actually cause some harm. 12-14 hours seems to be the sweet spot for the people I discussed this with. For me, this means that I will be eating between the hours of 9am and 7pm - and then fasting from 7pm until 9am the next day.

Turns out that on top of having weight loss advantages, TRF has a growing body of evidence for stabilizing energy levels across your day. It does this by matching your body's hunger signals to what's called your "Circadian Rhythm" aka your "Sleep-Wake Cycle."

The TLDR is this:

Rule #1: Before you eat your first meal, try to get 10-20min of sunlight to trigger your circadian rhythm and “wake up” your body.

Rule #2: Make your first meal protein-heavy. For my body weight (240lbs) I will be consuming a 30g protein shake on top of 20g of protein - most likely from eggs.

Rule #3: Eliminate feedings within 2-3hrs of bedtime. Eating late at night can raise your body temperature and trigger your body to believing that it needs to “wake up” rather than rest.

If you’d like to learn more about the science behind TRF / Intermittent Fasting, check out this episode of the Huberman Lab podcast:?

Meta releases a social media called Threads:?

Meta's Threads app debuted a day earlier than expected, offering billions of users an alternative to Twitter after it experienced a mass swap in users with Elon Musk taking it over.

Within hours, 10 million people had signed up for the service , and as of today (7 July 2023) there are over 70 million users. This rapid rise in users almost immediately triggered a lawsuit issued by Elon's staff linked here ??

Threads, which looks similar to Twitter, lets users post messages, reply to other users, and like or repost messages. The service also lets users of Meta-owned Instagram follow the same accounts on Threads, which could help people add followers.

There are some key differences from Twitter though. Most prominently is the lack of uses of hashtags. I'm extremely interested in learning more about why they chose to eliminate that feature.

Here's a quote from The Zuck himself ??

"Our vision is to take the best parts of Instagram and create a new experience for text, ideas and discussing what's on your mind," Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an Instagram post after Threads was made available for download. "I think the world needs this kind of friendly community, and I'm grateful to all of you who are part of Threads from day one."

If you’d like to check out the app, it’s a super simple setup if you already have an Instagram Account.

Here’s the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002 ?

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