So it seemed to work…

Aug 19 2010 Published by mwhities under Foods, Good Food, Thoughts, Updates

I posted this a little while back.

So, now for an update on it… it seems to have made me plateau and I stayed at 320lbs for that week I tried it. Maybe it was the intermittent fasting that helped drop the 3lbs or something else. But that week I tried not eating breakfast, I didn’t lose weight and it surely didn’t “melt off”.

Now, I have to say this, about the first of last week I started making Frittatas and eating them for breakfast, I started dropping weight. Granted, I’m not working out right now, but I have had 4 days of extreme sweats. I went to two soccer practices (I’m the coach), I mowed the grass and I worked all day at the soccer fields repainting the lines and fixing nets.

Yummy!

Frittata

My frittata usually consists of 10 to 12 eggs and whatever meat, veggies or anything paleo friendly. Hand full of onions, 1/4 to 1/2lbs of meats, bell peppers, swiss shard, baby spinach, just anything I have in reach. I would eat half of it for breakfast (if I was hungry, which I have been lately) and then the other half at lunch. I’ll mix in tomatoes, avocados and other additions while eating it too. Now I’m sure the ifasting that I’m doing that’s helping with proportion control and getting my sweat on has helped, but I’m eating twice more per day than I did when I skipped breakfast.

Seems contradicting, that I’d lose more weight eating twice as much than not eating much at all, but I’m down to 315lbs in the last two weeks. I was finally able to break the 320lbs plateau I was at. So hopefully with the paleo frittatas, proportion control, coaching and when I actually start working out, I’ll drop even more. I want it to be faster, but I don’t want it to be to fast.

So, what I am trying to say is that breakfast may or may not be the most important meal of your day, but it seems it is my most important meal of the day for myself. Go blackbox (try out) something different in your diet if you are plateaued or are wanting to lose some weight. I recommend the paleo life style of eating and lift heavy weights. Don’t worry ladies, unless you shoot up steroids, you will NOT get bulky. (Check out WGM’s site. These are all ladies that lift (Olympic style lifts, deadlifts, squats, cleans/jerks, etc..) and can out lift 75%+ men in the world. Sad but true and NONE of them are bulky.

Great sites like Gorilla-Pit (for lifting heavy things) and many others listed to the side will help you become stronger, leaner and never bulky. If you want to see some strong girls that aren’t bulky, please ask, I have a TON I can point you too. (Check the Amy Carson and Nikki Ashman links in the side bar.)

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GIVEAWAY: Grass-fed Sausage Sampler

Aug 03 2010 Published by mwhities under Foods, Good Food

Click on this link for a chance to win some delicious grass-fed sausage.

This would be great for anyone on the go, leaving the gym or just a wonderful primal and paleo snack!

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Wow, it does work.

Jul 25 2010 Published by mwhities under Thoughts, Updates

Before I even read this article, I tested it myself without even knowing I was testing it out.

My wife and I have the personal alarm clock that wakes us up at 5:30 (almost on the spot) every morning. So, we don’t even use a clock for the alarm anymore. Well, with the personal alarm clock and our oldest son, it takes sometime to get everyone up and ready to head out to school/work for the day. Well, for the last week, I didn’t get a chance to cook/eat breakfast. Most usually on those days, I’ll swing by Sonic, McDs or somewhere to eat. (MOST important meal of the day, right?) Well, being on the budget we are on (read that as broke) I haven’t had the chance to stop and get breakfast.

OH NOAS! (Not really.) I’ve started working with Intermittent Fasting (IF). A few days I’d go for 18 hours and a couple I’d go with 24 hours. (Or as close as I could.) I would do an on a day and off a day schedule. Of the days I’d fast, I really (sounds like I’m trying to sell something) felt as though I had more energy, could think better and concentrate, and my mood/attitude/demeanor was “better”. My wife asked me if I was on drugs those days. After work, I’m usually not the happiest fellow to be around. My oldest son usually got the blunt of it when I’d get on to him about stupid stuff. (I apologized several times and make the effort to not do it anymore. (Pick my battles.)) But I felt great on those days. I could almost consider not ever eating if I could feel like that every day.

Did I lose any weight? Naaa, not at all. But what it did do for me was help me make proportions smaller. (That’s good, I could eat a cows whole ass in one sitting. ;P) Plus the mental clarity that I experienced with it.

So, where am I going with this and what about the “wow” article?

EliteFTS

Briefly it describes how breakfast really isn’t the most important meal of the day. Waiting till 11 or 12 (or when you get hungry) to eat. Well, for the last week I’ve done this and I actually went down three pounds. Last Saturday/Sunday I weighed in at 323lbs. Saturday morning I weighed in at 320lbs. I even ate not so good. I did eat less, but I still had a few “bad” carbs and other bad carb desserts. So it was quite shocking that I had lost weight.

So, this week I’m going to do the samething again to see if it actually does work. I was quite surprised at the weight lose and then I stumble upon this article. I’ll weigh myself first thing in the morning and then again Sunday morning to see how it goes.

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