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Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog. Tim is an author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, investor (FB, Uber, Twitter, 50+ more), and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (400M+ downloads)
100+ pounds lost on The Slow-Carb Diet®. If you want to lose fat in 2014, how about we do it together? I need to work off some Danish butter cookies. Last year, the Lift team helped me test The Slow-Carb Diet® with 3,500 readers. The result: 84% of people lost weight and the average weight …
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Tim Ferriss Intro Hundreds of people have asked me about Soylent, a controversial Silicon Valley team trying to replace food with a grayish liquid. “Does it really deliver all the nutrients the human body needs?” “Is it safe?” “Why hasn’t anyone tried this before?” [Hint: they have] And most often: “What do you think of …
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All tactics, no excuses. This post will explain exactly how Briana, a mother of three and reader of this blog, lost 100 pounds. It’s a lot simpler than you might think. For additional real-world examples and the fundamentals, I suggest reading “How to Lose 100 Pounds on The Slow-Carb Diet.” There are several men and …
Darya Pino Rose, PhD, and her dad, who transformed himself after years of resistance. “Families are like fudge: mostly sweet with a few nuts.” – Anonymous “Language is a means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.” – Mark Amidon Losing fat yourself is one thing. Readers of this blog have …
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The very first Quantified Self meetup, held at Kevin Kelly’s home. Here, Dr. Seth Roberts is speaking, and I’m seated third from the right. (Photo: Kevin Kelly) Below are the notes I took at the very first Quantified Self meet-up on 9/10/08. It was held in the picturesque home of Kevin Kelly, the founding editor …
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I’ve worn Merrell shoes for ages, even back in 2007 for Japanese horseback archery training. It’s a long story, but I still have those bad boys. In 2012, Merrell themselves noticed that I wore Merrell. DMs were sent, and the seeds of a partnership were born. Today, I’m thrilled to formally announce that I’m collaborating …
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Georges St. Pierre, better known to fight fans worldwide as “GSP,” is currently the UFC Welterweight Champion. His publicly stated goal is to retire as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and, at a record of 23-2, ESPN currently ranks him as the #3 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. I think he’ll get there. His …
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Ricardo Arias – 410 pounds to 211.6 pounds, for a loss of 198.4 pounds. But is he an anomaly? Sidenote: the black pants in the after pic (56 portly-long/60+ inch waist) fit him tightly at 410. How many “how-to” books actually get read? Historically, no one has known. Now, it’s possible to get an idea …
Continue reading “Is The 4-Hour Body a Scam? Tracking 3,500 People to Find Out”
Many readers have lost 150+ pounds using The Slow-Carb Diet®. How can you lose at least 4%? What if you could make dieting failure-proof? What if I could guarantee that you’d lose that last handful of abdominal fat? Today marks my best attempt to do just that. The target is to collectively lose 1,000,000 pounds …
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[Ed. Note: This video is no longer available.] This is a short 20-minute interview from this week’s WIRED “Living By Numbers” Health Conference. It was a great event, and one of my favorite writers, Clive Thompson, interviewed me on how I track my life. Included are questions about the future of self-experimentation. Enjoy! What would …