Goals, Affirmations, and Success Oh My!

Yah Know?  It’s hard coming up with snazzy titles.  I wonder if the journalists have a piece of software that generates snazzy caption’s for their news articles.  Maybe it’s a table or a series of tables (i.e. baseball table) with 3 columns or so.  You fill in the blank with the subject and then there are several [...]

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GOAL! GOAL! GOAL!

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about goals and the practice of goal visualization.
A few years ago, a friend of mine purchased Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle eBook and I read it when she wasn’t looking.  In reality, she never got around to doing the whole diet and exercise [...]

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Watermelon Sorbetto Popsicles

Kim O’Donnel really likes David Lebovitz’s book “The Perfect Scoop”, in her July 26th blog entry, she mentions using one of the recipes from his book to create some popsicles.  I’ve been looking for a better sorbet recipe and decided I’d use it with the white peaches I bought at the farmer’s market this past [...]

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Cobbler Debates

Kim O’Donnel, a Washington Post Food Journalist (not sure if she would prefer Journalist before or after the Food or doesn’t care), added a couple recipes to her blog for a cobbler topping. 
Little did she know that I’ve been trying to AVOID eating things with sugar and refined flours.  Unfortunately, The recipes looked damn good and the follow-on comments [...]

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Hey, Fatty. Yeah, You.

T-Nation posted a new article Velocity Diet Lite: Two Shakes a Day to a Leaner, Harder Body by Chris Shugart.  As I was reading, I almost snorted coffee out my nose.
What’s that? You’re just in a mass phase? Listen, buddy, if you haven’t been able to see your penis in three years because of your big [...]

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The Quest for Protein

Last night I had meat balls in a kind of hunter sauce.  I didn’t really care for the sauce so I didn’t capture any to bring to work for tweeners and lunch.
Breakfast was my standard fare of 2 – 4oz carton’s of 2% cottage cheese.
I brought zucchini, fried okra, and sliced tomatoes for lunch.  Gotta love summertime.
Lunch was a [...]

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The Quest for Easy Protein Sources

 It’s 10:30 am and I’m 30 minutes past my “feeding” time.  I brought enough protein for breakfast, lunch and one tweener however, I’m still one tweener short.  I had 2 - 4oz containers of cottage cheese (22g of protein about 20 short of what is desirable) and one large plum for breakfast.
Now, I’m scouting for my mid morning [...]

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Fat Loss Kick Start

One of the first tips or assists in the PN Body Transformation Challenge was posted on the PN Forums as a Fat Loss Kick-start and the basic premise was that for the first two weeks you only eat
Foods that fly, swim or run
Foods that are green and grow in the ground
After two weeks you start adding [...]

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Surfeit

In addition to Lacka, I find myself surfeit after every meal.  Surfeit is defined as

 the state of being more than full
supply or feed to surfeit
glut: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
repletion: eating until excessively full
indulge (one’s appetite) to satiety

With that definition in mind, take a look at a few of my meals.
Breakfast

2 [...]

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Giada

One of my favorites on Food TV.  When she gets to whipping that meringue, it’s a sight to see.

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