So far, so good!

I know, it's only been 2 days.  

I hope this isn't premature...but I'm feeling great.  The 4HB diet is basically a low carb diet (protein, non-starchy vegetables); with legumes, beans, etc added in.  Beans are protein rich but still have carbs that are very slowly absorbed so your blood sugar does not spike.  Hence it's called "slow carb" rather than low carb.  I've been on low carb diets before, but I always felt cranky and tired on them.  This time, I think the addition of beans makes a big difference.  

I've been having a protein drink within 30 minutes of getting up about 5:30 which lasts me until about 10 a.m.  Eating within 30 minutes is apparently key to get the metabolism fired up. Then I have hard-boiled eggs (which I love) and some vegetables.  Then about 1:30-2 p.m., I've been eating celery with peanut butter (2 tablespoons carefully measured out), and some meatloaf that hub made (with white beans as a binder instead of bread crumbs…was quite good).  For dinner tonight, we had bean soup.  One bowl was plenty. 

You might think the beans would cause a gaseous problem (lol) but because the beans he used in both the meatloaf and soup  have been canned  instead of dried (white cannellini beans from TJ's),  apparently that alleviates a lot of that issue. 

Throughout the day, I wasn't hungry, in fact I had to make myself eat.  Now it's 9:30, about 1-1/2 hours since we ate dinner, and I'm not hungry now either.   Hub has been doing well too.

My plan is to weigh once a week on Saturday morning.  I guess the story of whether this diet is working will be told then.

There are some additional twists to this program which I will elaborate on in the coming days.  All I can say is, this promises to be a very interesting experience.