CredibleHulk

Week 1 Wednesday's results: Food: Primal/paleo check except: Had some peanut butter crackers. Failed to pack a snack when I left the house. Next time think ahead. Exercise Core exercise check Hip flexor stretch check Life Pray and meditate check

Ahh...veggies. I was fortunate to grow up in a family of good cooks and made my way through university cooking in restaurants, so I know how to make good food for myself. Seriously one of the most practical skills I've developed. Still I observed I wasn't getting as much good greens in me as I aspired to. Enter the blender. Now, I splurged and got a refurbished vitamix and it whips a pony's ass with a belt. However, you can do a totally adequate green smoothie with a regular blender. To do so, stick with spinach as it breaks down easily (less fibrous than kale or collards). I also have to think about economy, so I use frozen spinach. Frozen berries are great...a little steep, but stacked with good food. Try two parts frozen chopped spinach, one part frozen berries, one part juice one part water. Put all in the blender and put the blender in the fridge and it will soften up overnight. Blends well. Jam it down your gullet for/with breakfast. I bet once you get off the ground with this you could really up your greens intake. Cheers, CH

Hey, Vicki, Way to take the plunge to get in on the challenge. Sixty pounds is a big change. I'm sure you can get there by playing the long game. All the best, CH

Hey, good luck with that! Sounds like a good platform for success. Something I've been successful with water intake is to quit thinking about whether or not do I want a drink of water. Do I ever want to change the oil in the truck? No, but I do because it makes the truck not explode. What I do is fill a one or two liter (you can use anything...an empty orange juice bottle works great) with water and make sure that water goes down my neck before going to bed. One day of waiting til bedtime to drink a ton of water will teach you to spread it out through the day. Seriously, you can get a third of it in you before leaving home in the morning. All the best, CH

Sounds great. Way to take the plunge. Hopefully being part of a community will help you translate your short term successes into long term successes. You're making some solid lifestyle interventions, and I think the results anybody sees over the long term are symptoms of lifestyle changes. You can do it! CH

Hey buddy, Peanut butter is practically crack. Best to just not have it around. As a stepping stone, have you considered the methadone version: almond-only almond butter? Depending on if you live around a store that has a grinder, you can buy very small amounts and it's got no added sugar, whereas Peter Pan and crew are stacked up with it. I don't know if this kind of crutch would be a help or a hindrance. Hang in there...play the long game. Classic, bumper sticker observations: it took time to get where you are, and it will take time to get where you want to be. Don't try and do it overnight. Real results will show up as symptoms of a way of being. Steady on, CH

Hello, friends, Hopefully you are making progress on your goals. I've quit lots of things in my life: drinking, smoking, brushing, flossing...and I have an observation to share: day two is the hardest. The bright and shiny of day one enthusiasm has worn off. The fmomentum that lies ahead in a successful endeavor has not yet built up. Day two is neither a fresh start or a familiar friend. So buck up! You can do great things. This is the first forum I've participated in...for anything other than some online grad school stuff. Pardon me if I misspost, misspell and generally sh*t the bed a bit til I get saavy. Currently: working on addressing a tweaky back. For the last six months I've not attended to physical fitness or diet in any concerted way, and like anything it adds up. Intervention: Stretches to address anterior pelvic tilt, core strength building. Cheers! CH Long-term fitness goal: One year from now (March 1, 2017) strict muscle up Four months from now (June 1, 2016) eleven strict pullups For the next six weeks, I will: Diet Eat only food food: basically primal diet, but there may be some hummus involved http://www.marksdail.../#axzz41WimNttS Fitness Stretch 5 minutes per day: Focus on addressing anterior pelvic tilt https://www.youtube....h?v=oZu7YOfVhQc Core strength daily: Plank: start 30 seconds, add five seconds/week Hip raises: Start 5, add 5 per week Life Pray Meditate 5 minutes per day Thanks to all who help make this community. You can do great things! CH

Day one: 100 percent success on all fronts.

Hey yourself! I'm coming off of a tweaked back, so this first four weeks is build core strength and flexibility. I've been able to do a good ten pullups, and I think it'll take a few months to get back to that. Build up to a dozen good, solid deadhang pullups. Mostly get better at pullups by doing pullups. Daily work, but only max effort once a week. Same for bodyweight bar dips. All that about six months from now. Maintain that foundation and work on the transition. Thanks for checking in! Wanna see something amazing?

Hey. Big goals, big pride. One of my best buddies ran damn near 300 pounds most of the time we were in school together. You can make significant changes to that, slow and steady. All the best to you in this. The mental framework of taking the stairs instead of the elevator is great. I think it was actually from a Rolling Stone interview with Mark Wahlberg that I read where he had a system of asking himself every time a choice was required "Is this getting me closer to or moving me away from my goal?" Your stairs idea reminded me of that. All the best, CH

Hey, the adjusted lunch plan is a great one. Real food midday involves thinking ahead to have it prepped and ready to go, so there's lots of auxiiliary goodness. My luches often consisted of recipes I got off of nomnompaleo...the roasted kabocha is no joke. Learning to bake kale for crispy saltiness is another good tool to have in your belt. All the best, CH

Hey buddy. Looks like you've got a well thought out plan. Good luck getting crackling on it. Any chance you're up for some good reads advice on SF? What would you recommend to a guy (me) who grew up reading and enjoying stuff like Dune and Illustrated Man? If you've never been there, the Science Fiction Museum at the foot of the Space Needle in Seattle, WA is a great way to spend the day. All the best, CH

Hello, my friends, There's quite a lot going on here. I've gotten on and off the crossfit wagon, and have done all of the below before successfully but inconsistently. I've many times set out to get a strict muscle up but never have made it. The meditation is new, too. Long-term fitness goal: One year from now (March 1, 2017) strict muscle up Four months from now (June 1, 2016) eleven strict pullups For the next six weeks, I will: Diet Eat only food food: basically primal diet, but there may be some hummus involved http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-shopping-list/#axzz41WimNttS Fitness Stretch 5 minutes per day: Focus on addressing anterior pelvic tilt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZu7YOfVhQc Core strength daily: Plank: start 30 seconds, add five seconds/week Hip raises: Start 5, add 5 per week Life Pray Meditate 5 minutes per day Thanks to all who help make this community. You can do great things! CH