The Journey into Fat Busting!

I am not a dieter, I never really have been. I'm a big fan of food and love the whole process, from shopping for ingredients, to cooking them, to eating them with good company, so I was a bit put out to see that at 37 and after my third pregnancy I was piling on the pounds! I started out at a curvy UK 14 and have ballooned up to a large 16! Not only that but I have started to feel the affects on my body. My throat feels constricted, my circulation feels sluggish and my overall health seems to be suffering. I mentioned all this to my health freak husband and he got quite excited."I have a diet for you to try," he enthused, "One of my customers mentioned it to me, I looked into it and it seems legit." With a glowing reference like that from my own Mr Universe how could I not be curious.
So this diet. It's the Four Hour Body, Slow Carb Diet by Timothy Ferriss. Basically it's a restriction diet, in that you can only eat certain food groups. "Oh no! What is forbidden?" was all I could think. All white carbs, bread, pasta, rice. Or their brown counterparts. No starchy carb loading for me when I'm tired anymore. Actually, the diet goes further to say that only a handful of foods should be used for a whole month, combo-ing them up in a different way to keep them fresh, but the same things. Here is the list.

Proteins
*Egg whites with 1–2 whole eggs for flavor (or, if organic, 2–5 whole eggs, including yolks)
*Chicken breast or thigh
*Black beans
*Beef (preferably grass-fed)
Pork
*Fish
Legumes
*Lentils (also called "dal" or "daal")
Pinto beans
Red beans
Soybeans
Vegetables
*Spinach
*Mixed vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, or any other cruciferous vegetables)
*Sauerkraut, kimchee (full explanation of these later in "Damage Control")
Asparagus
Peas
Broccoli
Green beans

So instead of loading up on starches you replace them with beans, peas, and more beans. When I read this I did cast a thought to the methane production spike that was going to happen over the next month.

For restricting yourself so much in the pursuit of weight loss you get a perk. On the sixth day you may binge!And when he says binge he means go at that cream cake mountain till you're going to hurl. This sounds both exciting and disgusting to me but the man has some quasi science behind the reasoning. So that you don't go into starvation mode.
Add to this the fact that this diet doesn't require exercise. Since I walk about two and a half miles a day this could be an added fat buster.
Right I'm up for the challenge, so here goes....