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Week 3 – What I’ve been eating

Finding foods to eat at first was difficult for my wife and I because grains and sugary foods were so common in our diet. Over the past 3 weeks we’ve tried some new recipes and figured out some tasty meals and snacks. I’ll start with some of the snack foods. Coconut oil mixed with peanut/almond butter is one I picked up from my brother. I never liked coconut oil all that much but I’ve acquired a taste for it. I’ll also do full fat plain yogurt alone or mixed with peanut/almond butter or a few berries. Amanda made Kale chips […]

Dessert on the “Strict 60”

We have been having some absolute fun with dessert this time around on the “Strict 60” (diet of the 60 Day Turnaround). From the CUPCAKES which you can watch in the back room, to the Xylitol Bark, to the Chocolate Pudding, and now the coconut ice cream. We have not only been drooling over the evening delights, but we have actually been knocking out the average dessert in 5 minutes or less. Now, the cupcakes were about 40 minutes to process from start to finish, but everything else has been done in minutes. Which is awesome when I am constantly […]

E-Bola in ATL

Well, its here! The Ebola virus has just made its way onto American soil for the first time. I know many are concerned, and perhaps there is reason to be, but I think it is going to be ok. I am a fan of Samaritan’s purse, though I don’t give to them regularly, I have in the past and will again. I think their overall effort is noble. However, I am a stickler for the specifics of charitable giving. I don’t want to support the efforts that I philosophically am opposed to. For example, I believe the rampant use of […]

Week 2 – The game plan

I realize most of you are familiar with what the 60-day turn around is, but in case you’re not, here’s a quick overview. Diet and exercise. Its actually pretty simple. The diet: Not a typical weight loss diet. I haven’t been counting calories at all. I’m pretty much eating the same amount of food as I usually would. The only difference is that I’ve eliminated (not decreased, but really eliminated) sugar and grains from my diet. It has been very challenging for a few reasons. The most difficult is that most people, as I was (am?), are addicted to sugar. […]

To Perfect or not to Perfect

Is it purr fect, or Pir FECT… can you tell what I mean? Well the point is simply, when we do the diets that we do, and we pick up a new program, should we follow it perfectly, or not? That is the question of the day, and I am going to give you the science behind why “perfect” should be your plan. I know, this rings of a boring conversation. I tell you that you can never eat anything tasty again. You listen intently, consider the idea of it, then as soon as you are off to a fun […]

Week 1

I’ve completed the first week of the diet!! It definitely wasn’t easy to start. We just moved here to Georgia from New York in mid July. We started the diet shortly after arriving. I had hoped to start the diet after our stuff had arrived and we had unpacked some. In my mind moving furniture was a great excuse to have a lot of pizza. However, our stuff was about a week late so I started the diet before the moving process. Our stuff actually arrived the day after we started the diet. The first 3 days were by far […]

“Under Our Skin”

The documentary, Under Our Skin, sheds a whole lot of light (Tracy is that grammar acceptable?), on the Lyme disease battle. As many of you are aware, my wife was diagnosed with Lyme disease just over one year ago. Well, actually, we diagnosed it then, but it wasn’t until October that we were able to get a corresponding diagnosis from a medical doctor. Which is one of the most prevalent problems with this disease. As you watch this movie and hear the stories of mis-diagnosis, the stories reveal how this disease becomes deadly. One of the concerns that I have, […]

How I got here

I wanted to share how I got to such an unhealthy point. I was a very athletic kid growing up. I played sports with my friends all the time. When I hit my teenage years I was playing on multiple hockey teams in the winter and multiple soccer teams each summer. So I was a teenager constantly exercising. That meant I ate A LOT! Eating a lot wasn’t necessarily a problem, but what I was eating definitely was. The Schwann’s man would visit our house on a regular basis. If you’re not familiar with Schwann’s, it is a frozen […]

Devotion

My pastor Gavin Adams did a great job speaking on devotion this week. His sermon was good. Focusing on the first century church, and how their numbers grew tremendously in a short time as these early followers became devoted to a few areas in life that gave them success as a following/gathering. I couldn’t help but consider the life of devotion that one must lead to gain health. The reality is, we are either devoted people in general, or we are not. I notice that most people who are successful with their health, are successful in other arenas of life […]

We are ON IT!

My household, well the adults… which would be myself and my wife. And my brothers household (of adults – not his three children), are all on the 60 Day Diet plan right now! We are getting geared up for the 60 Day Turnaround starting late September. This way, you can get to watch some of the impact that this will have on my brother as he is putting himself through a significant life change, before you jump into it for yourself. That being said, you can also watch and here what my wife and I have to say about it. […]