So now in addition to a kickass self-PT program, I’m also preparing all my own meals. It’s been great.<\/p>\n
Recently, I discovered boiling. I know it sounds boring, but boiling stuff is turning out to be a pretty good way of getting good-tasting nutrition. \u00a0I’ve been heading to my favorite grocery store, loading up on many different greens, potatoes, carrots and other things, clean chicken breasts, tuna and other fish, and then heading home and boil it all, not necessarily together. I’m basically keeping the proteins separate.<\/p>\n
I started with just potatoes, spinach and tunafish and it turned out surprisingly well. \u00a0I had some leftover bacon from breakfast that I tossed in, not a very important ingredient.<\/p>\n
It was actually pretty nice.<\/p>\n The next day I went totally different: tuna, spinach SWEET POTATO.<\/p>\n This one tasted good and I was quite surprised. The broth is just water with some salt in it– something must come out of the sweet potatoes that actually turns it into a real broth, the kind you can see, and I ended up drinking down every last drop.<\/p>\n Tonight I went totally bananas. I boiled a week’s worth of food at once, with 4 giant, mutant chicken breasts tossed in and also three giant bunches of kale and also turnips, radishes and a whole container of fresh spinach. The pot in the picture below is huge… not sure of the exact size, maybe 4-5 big lobsters sized?<\/p>\n It turned out\u00a0well<\/em>. I mean, it tastes like actual soup and I really like it! I added salt to the broth and that’s all… it’s seriously just water, salt and tons of vegetables and a protein source all boiled together for a long time, maybe an hour or so, and it tastes great. I took some containers of it into work today and heated them up for lunch and second lunch and it remained excellent. I could hardly believe I had done it myself and I can tell this will be my thing for a while,\u00a0especially as my back continues to grow healthier and I get closer to training with more intensity.<\/p>\n I have started doing basic, non-twisting movements in the gym and am getting on pretty well with it. I usually hit the sauna afterwards for 20-30 minutes and feel really good afterwards, enough that I’ve stopped going to PT and am just doing self-PT. It’s a nice feeling to have blood pumping through me again, feeling the muscles fill up a bit, and feeling like they’re hungry for some great, hardcore training and sparring this spring.<\/p>\n I’ll start posting the ingredients I’m using and general diet, and over time my training routine and weight chart in case any of you want to see the plan, or even give it a try.<\/p>\n Resetting a patterned life is one of the best things a person can do, and I think it’s important to do it all the time, as often as possible. Routines can make time go by fast, they stifle potential, they make you weak. A routinized person loses their ability to adapt and overcome challenges or disruptive changes. Their comfort zone shrinks as time passes, which can result in missing out on many of the best things in life– those experiences that deepen you and change you and expand you. Even while you’re stuck in a pretty lame city where “routine” is the rule of the masses– where people do the same things most nights of the week (though perhaps with different people), and do the same things on the weekends (with the same people or not)– a person who can consciously and regularly break the patterns that are so easily fallen into have the benefit of constantly getting fresh perspective on everything about themselves, where they’re headed, how they’re spending time and for what. Life is a little larger than the lame routines we find ourselves in, usually by accident or when someone who cares about is points them out to us, \u00a0but to fully realize when a routine has become us<\/em>, we really have to clear everything out, push the fucking addictive trash away, especially the stuff that wastes our time and distracts us and brings us down to the lowest, most superficial levels of experience possible, and the brainless, meaningless states that always follow those things.<\/p>\n Bite down and excel. Clear out the garbage and find some fucking wisdom. Look around you and realize what’s real and what isn’t, what’s true and what is false. Grab onto the true things, the good things, and run forward with your sword drawn and thirsty for the blood of the cowards and the fuckfaces who so often seem like so many zombies all around you.<\/p>\n Enjoy Wednesday– I have some interesting things that I’ll try to capture and share from today, so see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every 3-4 months I end up getting tossed out of old patterns and routines. Something happens and I realize I’m no longer where I was, and it creates an overwhelming urge to change my situation, surroundings, influences… everything. It usually … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.obsidiannoise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/photo-6-e1326254038854.jpg\" "\\"soupers4\\"")
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