The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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rst attempt, done with more than 10 pounds of fatty cuts of grass-fed beef, had failed. That is, I
could consume only six pounds without vomiting, and I didn't gain one gram of fat.
Why the hell do a quest for fatness at all, you ask?
Because I wanted to prove, once and for all, that the calories-in-calories-out model was plain
wrong, or at least incomplete. The easiest way I could do this was by consuming a disgusting
number of calories in a short period of time and documenting the aftereffects.
This time, I had a different approach.
At 11:43 P.M. that evening, with two minutes remaining, I struggled to choke down a nal
package of Nutter Butters. I had polled my then 60,000 or so Twitter followers the previous
night for their favorite calorically dense foods, and I had committed to consuming as many as
possible. Everything I ate or drank would be photographed and either measured or weighed.
Here's how it added up, with non-eating but important events indicated with an asterisk: