I'm not sure what it's called, but it sure tasted good...

Okay, so I can add, and yes...it's been more than 90 days.  However, I've been busy.  Not working out, but just working on life and eating habits.  Took me 3-4yrs to put this weight on, gonna take me a minute to take it off.  With that said, I feel good.  Still not where I want to be, but, I feel good. I'm healthy, active and most importantly. HAPPY.

I feel and look like I've lost weight.  Plus I'm stronger and I have more energy.  But this post isn't about that side, it's about the FOOOOOOD side.  I came across my friend/ex-trainer, Watus Cooper's, post on Facebook about what he made for breakfast.  It was looking good, but best part it was looking healthy! So I thought I'd give it a shot.  Anyways, here we go:

Basic Ingredients

• Eggs
• bell peppers
• sea salt and pepper
• cheese if you please

What I added > 3 mushrooms, 1 green onion & Sriracha hot sauce.

Step one: While heating extra virgin olive oil in non-stick pan, chop and prepare your veg/cheese.

(the bells peppers are about 1.5" thick, but your sections can be smaller if you wish. I wanted to load mine up :P )

Step two:  Saute your mushrooms and green onions with salt and pepper at low medium heat (I added 3-4 splashes of Sriracha sauce at this step). Then separate them into equal halves.

Step three:  Round up your sauteed veggies using your bell pepper sections like cups, crack in your eggs, one per section, turn the heat up to medium...

Step four:  Step back and admire the beauty.  Then add salt and pepper and place your bell pepper tops back on and cook on medium heat for 2-3 mins.

Step five: Remove tops and with your spatula flip the things over, put your cheese on the done sides and  continue cooking for a minute.  Remove from heat and plate!!!

I washed it all down with some Tim Horton's and a glass of OJ.  Now I am not the Chef in the house, if ya'll know me, my wife Donna COOKS IT UP.  But I do like to sous chef from time to time.

Got a recipe I could try? or will you try this one? Holla!!! Lemme know how it went :)  Thanks for the inspiration Watus!!

30 days...

I haven't did shit. I think at my highest in these past 60 days I've hit 245 lol. But I haven't done any thing either. I thought putting this online would help, nope.

I did figure out that a change just isn't in the mind, it's in your lifestyle. I haven't really changed my routine, the same routine that has got me into this "shape".  I still eat the same, rarely do anything physical. It's my fault and it's not changing due to my own laziness.

I'd work out in the house a few times here and there, but that only gave me an excuse to eat more the next day.  It's an excuse that I told myself was okay. It's not. Only pushed me further from my goal. It sucks.

30 days...lets see if I can make anything happen.

Grease out!

Trying

This first month of my 90 day challenge has sucked lol. I've gone up and down within 10 lbs. Yo-yo. Right now I sit at 241lbs. I actually feel stronger though, cause of the resistance training. No weights yet. But if I can eat like this at work...steak salad, asparagus and raw mushrooms...i will start to burn this blubber! I ain't askurred...

Nom nom nom....

Coming up on 4 wks

And I started strong with this weight lose thing. Lost a quick 8lbs, then I don't know what happened! Prolly the h-burgs, hot dogs and nachos. Prolly. Not too sure on that, but maybe, a smidgen of those 6 lbs I gained back had to do with my eating habits. It's a toss up. Meh.

So starting week #3 here, down 2 lbs (whoopty-do) and not really feeling that ACE about my progress, I started to think that if I could really dedicate 30-40 mins 3x a wk to my fitness it can only be all bueno. However, it's one thing to write it, read it, and even think about it, then it is to actually do it.

To tell you the truth, it's not fun. Fun would be if I could do curls and make my kids laugh at the same time. Or jog for 30 mins with them all on my back, laughing in my ear the whole way. Thats what I call fun.

Any hoot, I have to find my kick in the sack. My spur to the side bacon. My giddy-up. I thought writing it out for the world to see was enough. I thought my budha belly in black and white was enough. It's not. Heh. I just find it funny damnit.

Grease out!

The Crown Life...

Earlier this year Big Boi of Outkast was signed by the Canadian Whiskey company as a spokesman for their Crown Royal Black brand. If you love hip hop, and know me. THIS IS MY SHIT RIGHT HERE!! Feel free send some my way. O_o.

Feast or Famine

Yesterday I awoke feeling energetic, free to be a fatty and ready to giverrr. Then the hunger pains set in while I was brushing my teef. That toothpaste tasted sooo goot too. I fought off the hunger pains and had a banana and scoop of peanut butter, along with my Tim Hortons coffee to wash it all down. That was glorious by the way.

Lunch I did good, better than I usually do. Ate about 2/3 of what I usually do and thats still a lot. But during that meal I started to think about the olden days. You know, the good ol' days, many moons ago, back when there were trees and buffalo as far as the eyes could see.

Turtle Islands golden era.

Wifey and I have talked about this before, how Native Peoples are relatively new to Western foods. Processed garbage, salt, bleached flour and sugar. Not to mention the unpronouncable crap on the ingredients labels. Also how it takes 200yrs or so for a peoples to adjust their bodies and regulate their health to new diets.

This leads me to the feast or famine bit. We were all once lean mean Native Machines, be it if you were from Europe, Africa, Asia or here in the Americas. Although some may have "advanced" earlier than others, science says we all were once living off the land. Somewhere. Somehow. Tribal people are strong willful individuals, and even stronger family units. The hunting high season was great and bountiful, some of us harvested also to sustain ourselves for scarce times. We were happy, healthy, fit and STRONG. Then, well you know what happened.

First contact and all that it brought with it, good but 98% all bad. Depends on how you wanna see it. Could we go back to the old ways? Sure. Will we? probably not. It's just the way it is, or will be. We are more disconnected with old ways. Traditional food especially. For example, people still associate Frybread as a "traditional" food to native peoples. Huh? Don't get me wrong, it's fucking delish! But it's not what we ate. It's what we were "given". If frybread is anything to us, its a testiment to our "injunuity". It's a symbol of no matter what wehave forced upon or are left with, we will always be here. Maybe 3 times the size of our ancesters in the gut, but we still here damnit!

traditionally, in the highs and lows of our hunting and gathering, we had that "eat what you can while you can cause you never know when that next really good meal will be." mentality. And in some ways we still do. We eat and laugh, and eat again. the last 100+ yrs has been our feasting season! There is no famine. No having to track animals and do our own field dressing. No making a deer or buffalo last among 30-100 tribal members for days. Hungry? Get a double cheeseburg, it don't run. It won't trample you. You won't even have to dress it, only thing you gotta do is decide on extra cheese, bacon or supersizing that.

It's not only us, the entire North American population is getting fat. Dying. Slowly. I now live within and work for the Pima/Maricopa people who have the worlds highest rate of type II diabetes per capita. A Native people who were once the greatest farmers this side of the Mississippi. Their water ducts and planting systems were so advanced they could sustain themselves on planting alone. In the frickin desert! Plants. Green. Healthy as a muthafugga. Now, they are a case study of the world medical community. How does that happen? Food and diet. Simple.

Thats an extreme case. Is it? You can look at your own tribe/nation, rez or family and see the effects of food and diet. The bad eyes, cancer, diabetes, obesity, low self-esteem, suicide rates, hyper-tension, bad cholesterol, heart failure, kidney failure...on and on and on. All of that is simply manifestations of what we have put into ourselves. Thats what comes out of us because our bodies are NOT ready for these foods, pesticides and processing. Sure we can point the finger and say "they did this to us!" We'd be half right because WE continue to do it to ourselves. Happily. With a smile on our faces as we bite into that oh so good double cheeseburg, with extra cheese, bacon, supersized and diet coke.

Giverrr

First Snoop Bloggy-blog!

So here's the thing. I don't know what F I'm doing. I may offend some people with these first pictures I posted below, heh (go see em, then come right back). I really started this blog because I wanted to have an outlet to life. I do the Facebook & Twitter thing but a blog lets you put it ALL out there o_O. And thats what I want to do.

I'll be posting odd and crazy shit, musings, artwork, movie/music/food reviews, points of interest in Indian Country, rants n raves, crap I find funny and just bs from my world.

Who will find this entertaining? Not sure. Do I care? Not really. But I do want input, be it: creative, positive, negative or humorous. Thats only IF you read an entire post of course.

SO LET'S GIVERRR!

FIRST: do you see how fluffy I am?
SECOND: what we gonna do about this?
THIRD: do you see how fluffy I am?

Aight, I am giving myself 90 days to into another shape other than fat. I put these pics up as motivation. It's like the ultimate wake-up call every morning. When I open my eyes, tomorrow morning I'm gonna think: "all those ndnz are fucking laughing at me!" Then I'll get up n go run 20miles, crying the entire time...or when I fill my plate with all that gooood greasy food at work, I'll think: "those fucking ndnz are still fucking laughing at me! Those muthafuckers!" And I'll prolly cry again.

But this is what I need. I hope haha. Or I'm setting myself up for a major fall. Either way, it'll be a good ride. Huh Fuckers?

So, lets recap and do this:

90 days. I'm 239.7lbs as off 6/29/11 @ 530pm my time. I give myself til end of September to be in enough shape to replace these hideous pics w/ a healthier me. So ya'll got 90 days to poke and prod! Giverrr!