Posts filed under ‘General’
Warrior Dash
I signed up for the Warrior Dash this summer. It doesn’t get much more Primal than this!
To quote the site:
WARRIOR DASH IS A MUD-CRAWLING, FIRE-LEAPING, EXTREME RUN FROM HELL.
THIS FIERCE RUNNING SERIES IS HELD ON THE MOST CHALLENGING AND RUGGED
TERRAIN ACROSS THE GLOBE. WARRIORS CONQUER EXTREME OBSTACLES, PUSH
THEIR LIMITS AND CELEBRATE WITH KICK-ASS MUSIC, BEER AND WARRIOR HELMETS.
How can you not like the sound of that?
Primal Meatballs!
Ive been watching a cooking show the last few weeks, called America’s Next Great Restaurant One of the contestants is doing a meatball place called “Saucy Balls” This got me in the mood to make some meatballs. So I headed over to Marks Daily Apple and found this great primal meatball recipe: Italian Sausage Meatballs with Fresh Herbs. I made a double batch since I had to buy full packs of herbs and didn’t want them to go to waste. I also made a nice simple Marinara Sauce, I’ll post the recipe later. They were perfect and the rest are going in the freezer to have for quick meals and lunches. One note, I baked mine in the oven at 450 for about 15 minutes(depends on the size of the meatballs)
Primal Blueprint Quick and Easy Meals
I just got my copy, and have alreeady made a couple meals from it. I’ll be sure to post on them. Overall a good well organised cookbook, full of great ideas to make living primal easier(and better tasting) You can grab a copy from Marks Daily Apple
One Local Summer Week 2
As part of the One Local Summer Challenge I have been trying to make more meals from local ingredients, and at least one meal a week from all local ingredients. So to this end, I headed out early Saturday morning to the Minneapolis Farmers Market. I picked up a bunch of different vegetables, most local and some not. As for the meal, well there, I tried some amazing brats(Peps Pork) and had to get some. I then picked up some rolls, lettuce, tomatoes(Bushel Boy) and some WI gorgonzola cheese(Black River) for a salad. For a dressing a I made up a simple quick Olive Oil & red wine vinegar dressing. Te brats were by far some of the best I have had and wish I could get some more before next weekend!
Progress, Not Perfection
I started this off about a month ago fully intending not to do what I always do – Procrastinate. Sure enough, I got busy at work, some other things came up and wham, no more blogging and I lost focus on my whole life project. I was doing pretty good to, I had lost about 10lbs in a month following the Primal Diet(mostly) and was feeling much better both mentally and physically. So I did a solo camping trip last weekend and it was cold and rainy and had a lot of time to think while being trapped in my tent. I decided I am going to redouble my efforts, and get back on track. I need to. So hopefully I will be posting a lot more and trying to really get into the whole primal lifestyle. I hope maybe someone else will read this and be inspired, and as the saying goes, “progress, not perfection” or something like that.
Kiva – Small Loans, Big Results
As part of my whole life project here one of my goals was to become more involved in helping others and along those lines I discovered a website called Kiva. I want to recruit you all to my lending team, The bradk Way, on Kiva, a non-profit website that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe. You choose who to lend to – whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq – and as they repay the loan, you get your money back.
If you join my lending team, we can work together to alleviate poverty. Once you’re a part of the team, you can choose to have a future loan on Kiva "count" towards our team’s impact. The loan is still yours, and repayments still come to you – but you can also choose to have the loan show up in our team’s collective portfolio, so our team’s overall impact will grow!
Check out the The bradk Way lending team, and learn more about lending teams on Kiva in general, by clicking here: The bradk Way Kiva Lending Team
My Diet Goals
Diet. Its an ugly word, most often bringing to mind tasteless food(like rice cakes) and starvation. But I am talking about a healthy, sustainable lifestyle. My main goal at this time is admittedly a little superficial. Summers almost here and I want to look good. I live in Minnesota now, and the winters have not been that conducive to staying in shape. So I have started on Primal/Paleolithic diet/lifestyle. Its more of an experiment now and I am easing my way into it. I started about two weeks ago, and initially weighed 222lbs. My Goal is to be below 200lbs by June, which works out to about 10lbs a month, which should be fairly doable without losing lean body mass. The average person can burn about 2lbs of fat a week, any more and your losing lean body mass, or just losing water weight. Luckily I have a very fast metabolism(although you wouldn’t know it by current weight) and burning 2.5lbs doesn’t seem like it will be an issue for me. Currently I am fluctuating between 215-217.5. I think Easter might have set me a back a few days, but I am back on track now. So far I haven’t brought much exercise into my routine yet, but that is going to start changing now that the weather is getting nicer. I will be posting a chart of my progress in the near future as well a s a couple of programs/web sites that I have found very useful for tracking my progress.
What is the bradk way?
Well I’m not exactly sure…yet. Thats kind of the whole purpose of this all, to figure out what it is. Will it be your way? Probably not, but maybe I can help you figure it out. I’m by no means an expert on any of this stuff, and will researching all of this along the way. I am going to be working on improving all aspects of my life and my interactions with the world and others around me. Sounds impossible doesn’t it? Well its not really a list of things I can check off it will be a work in progress, and continue to be one for the rest of my life. I am doing this blog as I think it will make me more accountable and help me to track my progress. As Confucius said:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
So this is the first step. I am initially going to focus on my physical body, i have for too long abused it. I also am going to to focus somewhat on organization and getting things done, as without that solid foundation I won’t be able to follow through on any of it.
Welcome to my new(est) blog
So I’m going to try this blogging thing again. This time with hopefully better results. I am embarking on a personal journey to try to become a better human being as a whole. I am going to work on being healthier, happier and greener. Hopefully others will be bale to learn from successes and mistakes.
Welcome!
-Brad
