4/26 Day 34

Today I returned to get my lab work drawn to see how the last month went. My weight this am was 188.4. I am undetermined if I am going to continue eating this way. The eggs Cami cooked this morning was smelling really good. The last week has been harder more so because of the lack of variety. I need to go to the store for more items. I did begin my garden for the summer. I need more plants aleady. I did not realize how many plants I can use. I did not get them all in the ground yet but will work on that this week.

Training has been spotty so I need to pick it up for the next 3 1/2 weeks before I go back to St. Paul for CK-FMS. I need to get my snatch numbers up again! Snatches, snatches and more snatches the next couple of weeks! I also plan on swing doubles to get ready to retest!

Keep growing, learning, and applying!

Until next time!

4/13-21 Days

Today is 21 days into vegan diet. I had to look to see when I started. I can not believe it has been 3 weeks already. After the first 2 weeks I noticed a slight decrease in my performance during training. I read some other information from other vegan trainers and they recommended more whole grains, beans, potatoes, as well as the vegetables. One sight also encouraged Sun Warrior protein, which I already had and like. So, I added some protein shakes as well as more whole grains, beans, and potatoes. Cami bought a Japanese sweet potato this weekend, but it looks like a regular white potato. It was good. I fired up the Big Green Egg and grilled a bunch of veggies and some chicken for everyone else and our company. I got full from the grilled veggies and sweet potato. We even had left overs and I had them the next day for dinner after I trained.

My weight dropped down to 186.7 in the first week. I am now right at 189. I was looking at some old measurements from a few years ago. This has not been just from the vegan diet. I have been training consistently for the last year. The biggest change I hope will be in my cholesterol, when I get that checked at the end of the month.

WIll I continue eating this way? I don’t really know. I have missed some foods. Cami made eggs and bacon for kids this past week. It smelled very good. I do miss my eggs! I was reading in The China Study last night that the recommended cholesterol daily intake is 300 mg and an egg has 200+ mg. I would normally eat 3-4 eggs every day. Now it has been Irish steel cut oatmeal and fruit! I will have protein shake mid morning, today I had a veggie sandwich from subway for lunch, some broccoli and hummus for a snack around 3:30 and most likely a salad for dinner with left over grilled veggies.

Until next time, eat whole foods, whole food digestive enzymes, and drink plenty of Kangen Water!

Keeping it simple!

4/1 Day 9

Going in to Day 9 I weight 187.5 this morning! Loosing weight has never been this easy for me. I am not going hungry by any means. I have been stuck at 192-195 for a while. I went to Genghis Grill last night for the first time with The Iron Tamer and Matt and Kristin McBryde after we finished moving into our new facility! I had never been there before. It was a pleasant surprise! If you have never been they give you a bowl to fill up with what ever you want from there buffet of meats and veggies, spices and you pick the sauce. Of course I got all veggies and brown rice. To my surprise we could go back for more and so I did! I had 2 large bowels of veggies and Brown rice!

I went to the doctor yesterday and discussed my lab work with her and what I am doing for the next month. I was the 3rd patient that had told her about The China Study. She said she was going to have to pick it up and read it. I have a very cool doctor. They are Cool Springs Family Medicine. They are a traditional doctors but with a much more holistic approach. They do colonics, hyberbaric oxygen, infra red sauna, vitamins and more. they are even looking at adding one of my Kangen Water systems.

Speaking of vitamins , I can not wait to my new ones come today. Shan Stratton who used to work with a former company of mine and many of the pro athlete teams and individual athletes, has started his own line of of nutritional products. Please check out Core Health Products. They are a complete product with enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, probiotics, and probiotics. I am taking the Core Health Pack and Digestive Health.

I did trained Tues. with the snatch test. I am out of conditioning for it. So after wards I did more swings with a 24 kb KB. I am going to go back to swings and snatches for the next couple of weeks until I can get back to my previous snatch test conditioning. This will be a good test to the eating plan I am doing. Matt asked me how I was doing with RKC prep work since going Vegan. So far so good. This week I have noticed more energy than before and have been waking up better even with less sleep. I have still cut back on the Americanos also.

The experiment continues!