Month: April 2019

Day 18 of Year 5 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

EXERCISE:
* Jog youtube Newport Beach
* Mini-trampoline
* Laughed watching Marx Brothers 🤣

WATER:
(3) × (25) = 75 oz

EATS:
* fresh jackfruit & cucumber w/ lemon
* almonds
* trader joe’s peanut-date bar
* very veggie pasta sauce (w/ arugula, onion, garlic, sweet peppers, mushrooms, quinoa, nutritional yeast, fresh tomato & tomato sauce) served over high fiber pasta
* steamed broccoli and cauliflower
* sparkling water w/ small amount of added cola

… SUN HAS SET …

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 16 of Year 5 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

SPRING BREAK BEGINS (party-day!)

EXERCISE:
* Lift upper-body
* Board lecture 2.5 hrs
* Flowering beach bicycle ride 2 hrs
* Urban Hike 2 hrs

WATER:
(3) × (25) = 75 oz

EATS:
* Newport Beach Trader Joe’s: banana, pineapple, walnuts, raw jicama sticks (my new french fries!)
* Disneyland: gorilla salad, cup of spaghetti in marinara sauce, raw carrots, apple sauce, child-sized sizzly XL-beverage, dole-whip pineapple raspberry float
* LA Ethiopian food: brown rice salad (w/ broccoli, carrot, craisin), yellow curry split peas, curry stew (potato, cabbage, carrots), kale & collards w/ garlic, injera teff-flour sour flatbread, hibiscus cinnamon tea w/ sparkling water

… SUN HAS SET …

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 13 of Year 5 Low-SOS Vegan Plan

EXERCISE:
* Jog youtube Zion National Park, Utah
* Weed & rake outdoors
* Lift upper-body
* Bicycle in park
* Mini-trampoline
* Vibrating platform

WATER:
(3) × (25) = 75 oz

EATS:
* black beans, rice, raw cabbage, steamed broccoli, avocado, red & green salsa, lemon juice
* almond butter & raspberry natural jam on high fiber toast & fresh (cubed) mamey dulce
* frozen dark XL-chocolate covered banana
* more steamed broccoli w/ lime juice

… SUN HAS SET …

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Daylong Workout

From The Guardian:

If you want to dedicate yourself to a lifetime of good habits, don’t start at the gym. Start at the office.

What three hours of daily movements looks like
7am
Morning run (45 minutes)

8.30am
Walk to coffee shop (10 minutes)

9.15am
25 push-ups (1 minute)

10am
Wall sit (2 minutes)
Walk around the building plus three flights of stairs (5 minutes)

10.45am
20 body-weight squats (2 minutes)
Trip to far water fountain (3 minutes)

11.30am
Pick up papers at printer plus two flights of stairs (4 minutes)

12.15pm
25 push-ups (1 minute)
15 side lunges, each leg (2 minutes)
Plank pose (2 minutes)
Pacing during phone call (10 minutes)

1pm
Walk around building for quick meetings (10 minutes)

×
Desk yoga: hip openers, seated eagles, spinal rotations, shoulder stretches (5 minutes)

2pm
25 push-ups (1 minute)

2.30pm
Walking meeting (45 minutes)

3.30pm
15 Hindu push-ups (1 minute)
20 side leg raises (1 minute)

4.15pm
Chair pose (1 minute)
20 body-weight squats (2 minutes)
Walk around the building (5 minutes)

5pm
Plank pose (2 minutes)
20 burpees (2 minutes)

5.45pm
Walk around building plus four flights of stairs (5 minutes)

Not tracked: Walking to and from the car, roaming the grocery store, playing with my kids, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/06/exercise-health-move-all-day-standing-desk

My Homemade Vegan Brats

(Recipe developing, will update soon)

  • pre-cooked white beans + little bit of bean liquid (or beer)
  • little bit of miso paste
  • fresh arugula
  • pre-cooked red quinoa
  • chopped walnuts
  • chopped mushrooms
  • little bit uncooked rolled oats
  • little bbq sauce
  • chopped onions
  • garlic
  • lime juice
  • nutritional yeast
  • Italian seasoning
  • fennel seeds
  • celery flakes
  • liquid smoke
  • crushed red pepper
  • rice paper wraps

Food process ingredients together.

Roll into mini-logs.

Briefly soak one rice paper wrap in water.

Wrap one mini-log in rice paper sheet.

Repeat until all are wrapped.

Grill in non-stick pan, or on bbq, or bake in oven on baking paper until outer wrap is firm.

Serve as-is with dip, skewered on a stick, or serve in buns or on bread.