the best Salad you have ever experienced in your M* F*in life, yo.

This is the real deal man, we're talkin guilt free epic nomification.

thaw the chicken! (google that for a beyond funny possibly true story from nasa that was -ultimately- validated by mythbusters)

hammer the crap out of it til its flat willy

fry in olive oil with a ton of nomic seasoning on it, soy sauce, lemon pepper, asian seasoning  you name it just hit it hard til its goooood.
pull it, slice it nice and even keep the pieces together so they are nice and cozy.

prep the salad:
spring mix
olives
avocado slices
Jicama -- track that shit down, its not cheap but this is your crunchy better than croutons guilt free omfg!

drizzle that ranch dressing
lay a couple more leaves on top of that

drop the chicken, one breast worth of slices each

nosh with your eyes rolled back in ecstasy guilt free and tasty like you can't even buy anywheres.

happy living!!!

Ultra comfort food: Roast beef stew with cauliflower alfredo nomification

Doesn't that just look GOOOOOD? cant wait to dive in.

so, line the bottom with chopped whole thinger of celery. and like an inch or 2 of water, then throw the roast on that pile, salt, pepper, curry, garlic mostly just on the meat to give it a nice crust.

2 hours on high, then 4-5 on low

nuke 2 bags of cauliflower for 10min, maybe 12 while thats going...

Pull the roast, slicey dicey choppy to your liking.  scoup out most but not all of the celery.  toss the beef happiness back in, dump in 2 jars of alfedo, i like to rinse them with water for recycling anyway in this case just a touch more cant hurt so put that in shake it up and dump it in too.

dump in cauliflower (oh yea i added some water and olive oil to that befor nuking, butter would be good too)

simmer! simmer classs! well not really put it on high and let er rip til everything gets tender.

fressssss!

happy living!!!

Asian spice crusted chicken alfredo veggie psychological money mastery happy thing.

Another simple dinner, keepin it different with little touches, whole chicken breast fried in olive oil with an asian ginger/lemon pepperish seasoning lots of it til it got sort of crusted then some A1 there splashed underneath.

veggie alfredo action on the side.

you'll notice i do that a lot, same old veggie mix, same old alfredo sauce, sometimes mixed with a tinge of this or that and it might sound boring but its best to look at it this way, this is the part of the meal that is replacing the carby starchy action, this is your bread/pasta/mashed potato etc... same old boring base you have with most meals only this tastes much much better and can easily be mixed with some of your entries for a change up (like i like to chop up the brats and mix them in sometimes while keeping them all decorative and whole others) biggie is that not only does this replace that carb action as the side dish belly filler it also replaces that really easy part of the meal weeknight cooking can scarcely ask much of you in the fancy entre dept, rackin your noggin over the side dish just aint happinin so here's your solution.

chicken came out of one of those huge bags from costco, i'd say this is probably something like a $3 meal again not ramen cheap and man do i know that its not easy doin 3 when you've got $2 key is to not beat yourself up.

Not just because "be nice to yourself" all stuart smalley action but because what happens is you give up, and when you do finally get 12 extra cents to rub together on payday you reward your lengthy sacrifice with a trip to taco bell where natch the spouse and the kids want some too and suddenly you have a carload of unhealthy food and sure you 'only' dropped $20 on that but..... thats a bag of frozen chicken that will last you to next payday.

that bag will quickly look like boring drudgery waiting to happen in comparison to that fast food meal but just look at the punum on this meal right here! this bitch was the noms and like on a tuesday night, i can barely get something as good as this for $25 a plate going out god forbid i get a drink or appetizer or...

so big factor is to no just throw feed down your chow hole, do it up, take a sec, add some spice, make it pretty on the plate like a boss, you'll feel spoiled, you'll pass up taco bell and go to biggie mart and stock up on more nom foundations and you'll feel great about yourself which is the very first step to...

happy living!

Calories are lies.

This is my breakfast today.

watch your gag reflex, thanks to the lies that you've been told for decades this might make you gag and think i have a death wish.

that right there is 1000 calories and the coffee is only 2 of them thanks to naughty bad for you artificial sweetener.

8 yes EIGHT eggs, massive avocado and little hot sauce on the eggs, and that white stuff? sour cream? that would be nice but far better is mayo, yeap thats 2 giant glops of pure mayonnaise.

yes yes by all means check with your doctor first, get some intel, they are good at finding stuff and giving you data, however, how to alter your data via what you do and eat? well they only have more of the bad info we all do, you'll find that the more seasoned ones take less and less stock in the party line and the insane food pyramid.

Eating like this, my results have been nearly 60lbs of weight loss, way lower blood pressure, even more athletic heart rate and i haven't even started with any exercise at all.

what would make this breakfast bad for me would be a simple piece of toast adding that, not the mayo, would be foolish

check this article out about the calorie bs.

happy living!!

Work lunch mid-week, hard core

This is how it should look, so much mayo that its almost like cold cereal (i could so kill a box of captain crunch right now, dammit) in this case because i was extra hungry i added 2 hard boiled eggs to tuna and mayo, tossed on some pepper for color and flava (dont forget that water!)

creepy though this kind of mayo i just got says no need to refrigerate, should i worry about glowing in the dark?

anyway this has like really damn near no carbs, this is your day in day out just do it don't think about it toss it in your bag way to get there that pays for those weekly nudges toward enjoyment, lifestyle.

think about it though, every single day some taco bell blech or can of salty soup or.... its not like you are giving up something amazing on your day to day, you are giving up yetch anyway so why not just fuel up with this so that eventually you get your body back, your energy, your living.

get back down to where you do take that hike on the weekend on the coast and turn in for a really nice dinner and a glass of brilliantly crafted Pinot Noir, mmmm.  even at that once you are well on your way you can do that from time to time, but think like that, steak, veggies and your cheat is that its red instead of white wine and the veggies aren't 100% on plan when you eat like this all week they don't have to be.

this was tasty, i'm very full and honestly after 7.5 months of this, that apple fritter the other day was just gross, it was like a greasy glob of sugar and crisco.  so those really bad binges are getting easier and easier to not miss, sure i'll have the stray thought like the captain crunch above but now that i'm full that totally passed.

when i do get to my goal I will know that i've really done it if there is little to no change to what I eat, it should be a gradual process of guiding my body's fuel to match where i'm at, when i can go mountain biking every weekend or skiing i will need to feed my body healthy carbs for fuel if there's not much fat left to feast on but I should get gradually closer and closer to that as i go.

in theory there is no 'off' the 'diet' I think that is right at the very center of what we've all been doing wrong, we do this in everything we do, vacation, school relationships all 'on' or 'off' when the world we live in is grey, right now i'm no longer a 344lb dude so how i manage my wellness has changed and will keep changing, even at my goal level there will be times where i've strained my knee and wont be going for that ride for a few weeks and i'll need to recognise that and adjust.

what i'm doing right now is practice for that future behavior that habit, the losing of weight is almost ancillary when you realize that that has never been the hardest part.

Happy Living!

Carb night / nite thinger

Really wish I had a pic for this, maybe i will score one later.  So i saw this video with whats his face Keifer about all his metabolic wisdom and carb nite.  i've heard of this before on atkins, break a plateau by goosing the engine, figured it was psychological but he says its got to be weekly so in the interest of science, ok, i'll bite, no pun intended.

so instead of my somewhat usual nacho splurge where i dont eat all the chips and the bigger sin is the beans but mostly meat, sour cream, jalipenos, olives, hot sauce,  all pretty good... i went for it and had a full on slice of pizza and a apple fritter, later choking back a mocha frap and a brownie.  all this should happen in 6 hours, i managed that but honestly hated it, all that wheat and processed sugar felt awful.

so i will weigh in tomorrow and see if it worked, last week i was back up a few pounds so i figured i'd give it a shot, if it did work i just cant take his advice and eat total gut acheing crap, maybe some icecream but more like unproccessed honey or sugar on sweet potato, the wheat had me having acid refulx for days, managed to still not take anything for that but after 7.5 months of nothing like that crap at all even on a 'cheaty' day i can tell, that shit is just not for me.

listen to your body, it does a great job of giving some not so subtle hints what to do.  i'll try to post the weigh in info tomorrow and how i tackle the weekend based on what i find.

happy living!

Brats Cauliflower creamy curry, oh my

Just a shot of some of my regular noms, this is probably some of that milk/mayo based curry stuff i've mentioned before, soy sauce drizzled on the bits before the cream goes in.  this is probably shy of $8 and makes eh, like 4 meals? so its not top ramen cheap but massively cheaper than any fast food and tastier than almost anything shy of $100 at any restaurant.  bonus, very very little effort.

Happy Living!