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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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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The Precision Nutrition Body Transformation Challenge

Precision Nutrition (hereafter known as PN)is holding a competition called the PN Body Transformation Challenge. To enter the competition, you signed up and included before pictures, body statistics, medical and performance test results etc. The prizes were outstanding for the winner and first couple runner’s up.
I failed to get my challenge in on time and [...]

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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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Farmer’s Market

Every Sunday, the local farmers gather at a Dale City commuter lot and sell their produce.   I brought home quite a haul:

Peaches

Freestone
Yellow and White

Tomatoes

Ripe – Tomato Sandwich salivate
Green – yum fried

Okra – yum fried w/ or w/o cornmeal

Cucumbers

Burpless/Seedless
regular

Zuchini
Squash
Green Peppers
Blackberries – tart
Watermelon
Cantaloup

I also bought some swedish farm bread, some dessert bread (kind of like Irish Soda [...]

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