Check out lunch today. Breakfast can be seen in my new Tumblr side bar. 
This was roast beef, egg, veggies and salmon.
Check out lunch today. Breakfast can be seen in my new Tumblr side bar. 
This was roast beef, egg, veggies and salmon.
The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
Inspired by Robb Wolf’s new book and the training I’ve been receiving over the past 2 months at Crossfit Santa Clara and Crossfit Mountain View(By Alex Rollin and Jason Khalipa), I’ve decided to go for a 30 day paleo challenge. October is about to begin, so what better way to start the month than a start to healthier living. October has the World Series, 10/15, and Halloween. I couldn’t think of a better month to do this.
In truth, I’ve already begun mixing in paleo meals into my diet over the past few weeks. The trick now will be to eliminate the remaining meals and snacks that won’t be allowed. Milk, It’s It Ice Cream Sandwiches, peanut butter, beer, and everything else are all going to have to take the month off. A lot of these have good replacements within the Paleo world. I’ve taken a liking to both almond milk and almond butter, and ice cream and beer will just have to be gone without.
Two resources I will be taking advantage of to stay on track are The Whole 30 and Robb Wolf’s Quick Start Guide. Robb and Whole 9 have also cooperated on a Fish Oil calculator that I’ve been using recently.
So far I’ve done a good job of putting some meals together that you can see here and here.
So wish me luck. At the end of the month I have two events that I am looking forward to. One is the Silicon Valley 5K on October 31st, and the other is the Amazing Grace fundraiser on October 30th. If you would like to donate to a great cause, you can visit my fundraising page here.
Tim Ferris has just announced the details of his new book on his blog. For those not familiar with Tim, he wrote The Four Hour Workweek, a guide for taking your full-time job, convincing your employer to let you work part, and using that time to travel, see the world, and create a business with auto-generating revenue that will allow you to quit your original job all together, all while continuing to travel.
Sound to good to be true? I don’t blame you, but the plays are straight from Tim’s experience. The newest version is expanded with more examples of people doing just what Tim says.
Here is the back cover description of the book. I’ve already pre-ordered it.
THINNER, BIGGER, FASTER, STRONGER… which 150 pages will you read?
Is it possible to:
Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.
The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:
For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?
Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.
From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works.
YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):
- How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.
- How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
- How to increase fat-loss 300% using temperature manipulation
- How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time
- How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested
- How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
- How to triple testosterone, double sperm count, and (literally) have sex like a porn star
- How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks
- How to reverse permanent injuries
- How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
- How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visitAnd that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.
You don’t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.
That’s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.
I’ve done a horrible thing to myself. Last year I wrote bunches of posts about how I was exercising, eating right, and losing weight. In about 3 months I lost about 20-25 pounds. People were coming up and telling me that I looked great, looked like I lost weight. My motivation was my upcoming wedding and not wanting to look like a fat slob in my wedding pictures that I would look at the rest of my life.
I achieved that goal and I am happy with the way I looked in my pictures. And then I went on the honeymoon, and then I started grad school, and then my back pains started happening, and one excuse after another caused me to stop exercising.
Fast forward about 9 months, and after just celebrating my one year wedding anniversary, I have put back on all of the weight that I had originally lost. What I worked so hard for in 2-3 months, was lost in 9. I can not contribute everything to not exercising, because my eating habits went down the toilet too. I started drinking the occasional energy drink and soda. Fast food started creeping into the weekend meals. Overall is was everything I wanted to stop doing, and I started right up again.
So here I trying to get back into shape again, and this time come up with a better maintenance plan. The good news is that Stacy is working out with me. We just started this past Sunday, and have been very sore the past few days, but just as of this morning, the soreness has started to fade, and I am hoping that muscle memory kicks in and I will be able to resume what I used to lift in my work outs in a shorter amount of time.
When I restarted this blog for yet another time LAST year (yes 2009, you are last year) I really wanted to focus on quality feature type writing. I always preferred “magazine” style writing as we called it in journalism school to the news reporting of newspapers and agencies like the AP and Reuters. I wrote a few pieces like this over the past year. The Mint review, my retirement finance piece, and last but not least, my piece on quitting the game of Warcraft.
These are the types of pieces that I’d like to continue to write, but I don’t think these can be produced once a week with my current schedule. Work, school, life, you know all that, I’ve mentioned it before in previous posts as well. But I am joining Project 52, a personal challenge to myself, that others have asked of themselves as well. I want to write more. I enjoy writing.
So that’s it for now. Let’s see what 2010 brings for Perfect Mike Dot Com. Until then, You can keep up with my Google Reader links which is probably what I update most often these days, followed by my Twitter.
It took a long time, but over the past few years, more like almost a decade, I have been working to get out of credit card debt and never return. The day has finally come. No balances. The only debt I have now is my mortgage and my car. So my next goal is to pay off the car.
Debt Free Youth