The Ultimate 4-Step Framework to Successfully Implement the Slow Carb Diet for Weight Loss

Counting calories is a waste of time.

The traditional advice for losing weight is to eat less and move more. Eat less by tracking your calories. Move more by walking more steps and going to the gym.

In 2010, Tim Ferriss published The 4-Hour Body and introduced the world to the Slow Carb Diet.

Here’s what it is and how it can help you lose 20 pounds in 30 days:

The Slow-Carb Diet is a sustainable diet that helps folks lose weight by restricting carb consumption. Successfully implementing the Slow-Carb Diet involves following 5 rules.

1 — Avoid “white” carbohydrates: This means bread, pasta, rice potatoes, and grains.

2 — Eat the same few meals over and over again: Most people already do this. But you need to modify your go-to meals to meet the rules in this post.

3 — Don’t drink calories: Drink water, coffee, and tea. No juices, soft drinks, or alcohol. But Tim Ferris makes one exception of 1–2 glasses of dry red wine per night. If wine is your thing, go crazy.

4 — Don’t eat fruit: Fruit has lots of sugar. Increased sugar intake leads to more body fat.

5 — Take one day off per week and go nuts: One cheat day per week.