A Journey Inspired by the Movie "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead"
Rebooting the Reboot
They say we all have excuses. Nobody likes excuses. I’m sure there are plenty of clichés I rattle off if it wasn’t so late and my brain didn’t hurt so much. I spent most of last week looking back at where things went bad with our reboot program and realized...
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Back in the Saddle
So if you’re reading this then you have likely noticed the large gap in the timeline since our last post. We’ve sadly had a very difficult time following the plan over the past few months. Partly because of our lack of will power through the holidays, but also...
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Week 3 Update
21 days or so into my lifestyle reboot and I’ve run into weaknesses on several occasions. However, my focus remains clear. Mostly that’s because my mind feels more vibrant. I continue to feel the benefits of always feeling energetic and enthusiastic. I’ve...
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Meat & Music Sunday
So here’s another cheat day that I forgot to share. A couple of weeks ago I had some friends over to goof around and play some music, drink few brewskis and fire up the grill. This is a short story. Beer. Beef. The end. Because it wasn’t “junk” food per...
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Indianapolis: My First Reboot Road Trip
I know it would happen. I just didn’t know it would happen so soon. My first road trip while on my reboot. I was in Indianapolis last week visiting with a client and a vendor. I tried. I really tried. I have spent some time trying to discover the various grocery,...
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Texas Spicy Green Juice
So here’s a concoction we whipped up the other day the we both quite liked. I have a soft spot for Jalapeño peppers and any other tex-mex/mex-mex/new-mex flavors. Try this on for size – it’ll put a few more hairs on yer chest few sure! 3 stalks celery 2...
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Food, Inc.
As I continued down this path in an attempt to change my food choices, eating habits and lifestyle I am constantly reminded of how toxic almost everyone’s diet has become. It’s disgusting to learn how uneducated, used and abused we really are as a society when it...
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Hey Angie, Where are You?
Well, it looks like my dear wife is not as technically savvy as moi. Hence I’ll need to give some WordPress lessons and coax her into telling you more about her portion of this journey. I will tell you that although her experiences thus far are slightly different from mine...
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Week 2 Update
Although not quite at the end of our second week of this lifestyle reboot, I’ll be pretty busy today and tomorrow so wanted to go ahead and post a quick update. Last night I watched Food, Inc. for the first time. I will do another write-up on just this topic. Let’s...
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Eating What God Gave Us
Genesis 1:29 “Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” Angie and I were sitting at the dinner table one night last week; sipping out evening...
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Turnip Green Tacos with Chili Lime Sauce: Our First Experiment With Veggie Cooking
Our family has a Friday tradition – “pizza night”. Well, with our new approach to eating we were trying to think of a replacement for pizza night and decided to use this as an opportunity to experiment with veggie cooking. In the strictest sense, the juice...
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Apple Pie Juice
You can have your apple pie and drink it, too! First sprinkle ½ tsp of cinnamon and ½ tsp of nutmeg into your home juicing machine. Then make apple juice with 4 large sweet apples and carrot juice with 1 large carrot (saving the pulp for sauce if you want to). You’ll...
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Day 9 Update: The Great Six Flags Debacle
I’ve definitely had a few challenges over the past 5 days. First, we took the kids to Six Flags Over Texas last Friday. I knew that would be hard and in the end we simply did not plan well enough for that day. We started off okay with a fruit (solid) breakfast. Then around...
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Day 4 Update
I’m loving this. There are some strange side effects that I working through. For example, my ears ring pretty much all of my waking hours, but especially intensely for about 2 hours after downing a nice fresh big ‘ol green juice. It’s an odd thing that I...
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All Natural Green Chocolate Milk
So here’s a little something I discovered today that I find fascinating; chocolate is not that difficult of a flavor to replicate in the form of veggie juice! And it’s simple too! I must admit that it takes a tiny bit of getting used to and you have to be a tad bit...
Read More"For us, this is about utilizing natural, whole foods to create an abundant menu that will serve us for the rest of our lives."
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