There she blows!

I am casting a large net and I think I am going to catch the Leviathan known as Joel!  Harpoons ready; check! 

The site that Joel is posting about Alcohol http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAndHealth.html is written and maintained by David J Hanson P.H.d.  This site is funded by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.  The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States is an alcohol lobbying association.  I will leave it to all of you make your own decision on David's research. 

From my experience, dropping alcohol for 30 days coinciding with the paleo challenge, I felt very good.  All weekend I was productive and not focus on sitting in front of the TV while drinking, or sitting in front of the TV nursing a hang over and feeling sorry for myself.  I highly recommend it.

 

I have nipples can you milk me?

I cut out milk consumption for the initial paleo challenge, and I noticed that when I cut out milk that my swelling in my right knee disappeared.  Coincidence?  I think not.  I am going to continue to abstain from milk unless I cheat and have some good chocolate milk once in a while.  I found this interesting blog on milk consumption.  I enjoy the points that were made on the topic concerning large protein and caloric requirements.  Enjoy.

Don't cry over spilled milk
 

Santa Clause is coming to town

That's right you better not pout, you better not cry, you better not fart I'm telling you why!   I had some time to re-evaluate and design my new plan of attack to achieve my nutrition and health goals.  I will continue a similar approach to the last six weeks, with the following modifications outlined below.  The following are tweaks that I am going to try for a month and re-evaluate Dec 1st:

• I am going to work on my sleep.  Currently I am sleeping 7 to 8 hours a day.  I want to increase that to 8 to 9 hours a day.  The change to the WCCF schedule is going to help out a lot.  It was hard finishing lifting at 8:30/9 pm Tuesday and Thursday and going to sleep before 10:30.   
• My biggest meal will be breakfast.  My lunch will be big as well, but smaller than my breakfast.  And, dinner will be the smallest meal of the day.  
• I am going to add cheese and heavy cream into the rotation, moderately.  I will make sure the quality is high.  
• Increase the diversity of vegetable intake.
• Increase the amount of fish consumed.  Fish, pound for pound, is the heavy weight champion of proteins.  It has tons of minerals and vitamins, high in protein, and has great fat profile.  The one problem with Seafood in Chicago is that it is flown in frozen, and it is expensive.  I am going to research the quality of fresh fish from our great lakes.  Also, I need to hone my skills on preparing fish.  Currently, I don't have much confidence in my ability to prepare fish, but I see this as a challenge for the next month. Difficulty, I hate Salmon.