4-Hour Body Recipe – Mini Quiche

For those of you thinking of using The 4-Hour Body Here’s a great recipe!

Mini Quiche with Lentils

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6 eggs ( I use 3 eggs and 3 liquid egg whites) chopped spinach lentils mushroom red onion garlic a leeeeeetle bit of shredded cheese :-) optional – hot pepper sauce Preheat the oven to 350 In a bowl beat the eggs and add all other ingredients as desired. Using a 1/4 cup scoop separate into lined muffin pans. Cook for 20 minutes at 350. Remove from oven. When cooled refrigerate or freeze

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4-Hour Body Recipes – A list and a plea

Of the many fantastic things in the The 4-Hour Body, one of the flaws of the book is that there are so few recipes.  I know he didn’t set out to write a cook book, but c’mon!

So I made it my naptime mission to find some delicious recipes that could maybe hide some of those beans under or in something more yummy.  Unfortunately there is not so much going on out there on our usually overflowing with information internets.

I did find this gem on Robb Wolf’s website ( a really great resource on the Paleo diet, he wrote the book “The Paleo Solution”).
This is a .pdf from Tim called The Slow Carb Cookbook. Nice!

A quick list of recipe sites.  Because the 4-Hour Body is so new there aren’t many.  I have searched for a while and really this is it folks.

In no particular order…

4 Hour Body Recipes Facebook Group

Daily Burn

4HourRecipes : 4 hour diet recipes for a better body

Slowcarbers

All Recipes – Chicken Stir Fry

So I’m pleading with you if you have links to share I’d love to see them. Link ’em up!

 

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4-Hour Body Week 1- the breastmilk bonus

Week one of  The 4-Hour Body DONE!!

I didn’t post about it yesterday because I was too busy stuffing my face and having yet another snow day with the kids.

Here’s how it all shook out.

Combined 8 lbs and 3.75 inches lost.  Not bad right? It was skewed in husband’s direction. Men. Hrmpf.

To sum up the 4 Hour body in an I skimmed the chapter because I have three kids and I just want to lose this fat this is what I think it’s all about kinda way…here goes. It’s a slow -carb Diet. It’s all about accelerating fat loss. Not necessarily weight loss. You eat three to four meals a day that consist of protein, legumes, and vegetables. No white carbs, sugar, dairy, or fruit. You eat like that for 6 days then on the seventh day you can eat what you want.

For the most part everything thing was fine.  The food was just ok for me, dawg.  I love bread and chips and pasta so the no carb thing was difficult I’m not gonna lie. Breakfast was like taking medicine for me. I frequently don’t eat breakfast and when I do it’s waaaay after I’ve woken up. It was very hard to eat a full breakfast that was partly made up of beans a half hour after waking up.

I tried to prepare the same meals over and over again just because it’s easier for me to just get it done that way. Trying to be creative takes is too time consuming when I’m also making food for the kids.

On the 6th night I was over it! My chili didn’t come out like I wanted it to and I was pissy. “I’m over it.” I told my husband. He reminded me we could eat whatever we wanted the next day. Sooooo…

I’m not really a crazy junk food eater, but we sure do love our tortilla chips ’round here.  We only had a quarter of a bag left which we amazingly didn’t eat all week. Steve got the bag out for lunch and I sneered at him “You better not eat that whole bag!” Did I mention it was a snow day?  We couldn’t leave the house in the morning to get anything. Steve shoveled himself out to get some pizza for dinner though. Oh and I had three wonderful giant lattes.

The strangest and most awesome benefit of this WOE (way of eating) is that I have increased my breast milk supply. Yup. More milk. I couldn’t believe it.  I have a low supply so it was odd that my baby was whining a bit more to nurse. And then I noticed that one of my milk ducts was hurting like it was full. Then he had a few poops that were totally breast milk poops. Moms of breastfed babies will know what I mean- a little grainy and sweet smelling. He hadn’t had one those since he was two month old.
BreastBook

I bet that isn’t something that Tim Ferriss tested out :-) He could have a whole new book aimed at the post partum breastfeeding set if you ask me.  Lose weight and increase your breast milk supply at the same time. Brilliant!

I am sort of dreading starting it up again tomorrow. I think I may not be as strict with the menu.  Allowing a bit more of the foods that we like or less of the foods that we don’t. All in all, I feel better and dare I say it, I look better.  I really do. I can actually see a difference.

So moving on to week 2. I wonder what the numbers will say next time.

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Who knew I liked chili?

I was at a new friend’s house for a playdate a few months ago and she offered me some turkey chili for lunch. Well I don’t like chili, but I was polite, accepted and ate.  Maybe it’s the pregnancy that has changed my tastes or perhaps I’d never given chili a fair shake. In any case, I loved it. I asked her for the recipe and she pointed to a can on the counter. Hmm… if I like that, imagine how much more I would like it if I cooked it from scratch. Little did I know how easy it was and what a hero I would be to my husband.

I found this recipe thanks to my favorite food/cooking/recipe website Allrecipes.  I love that it’s cooperative and there are people from all walks submitting and commenting.  I read the comments to see how people have changed a particular recipe to suit their needs.

I just bought some ground turkey on sale and needed help. I tweeted that I needed a turkey chili recipe.   Allrecipes chimed right in and pointed me to a page that had searched their site for recipes.  Nice!!

We have this meal at least once a week since I found it. I make it during naptime and let it sit. I buy some hard crust bread and also serve it with tortilla chips. What’s not to love about a one pot dinner too?!

Simple Turkey Chili (my changes in parenthesis)

* 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
* 1 pound ground turkey
* 1 onion, chopped
* 2 cups water (2 1/2 cups water)
* 1 (28 ounce) can canned crushed tomatoes I used (Muir Glen Organic Fire Roasted)
* 1 (16 ounce) can canned kidney beans – drained, rinsed, and mashed
* 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
* 2 tablespoons chili powder (1 tbsp taco seasoning)
* 1/2 teaspoon paprika
* 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions

1. Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Place turkey in the pot, and cook until evenly brown. Stir in onion, and cook until tender.
2. Pour water into the pot. Mix in tomatoes, kidney beans, and garlic. Season chili powder, paprika, oregano, cayenne pepper, cumin, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 30 minutes.

Enjoy!

 

Edited to add:  for #4HB people, obviously, skip the cheese & bread. For non bean people make sure you get the LIGHT red kidney beans.  They are less starchy which is the reason you don’t like beans ;-)

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