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  • Cheat Days are for Rookies

    Cheat Days are for Rookies

    The Cheat Day is the worst thing you can do when trying to lose weight.

    During the week you are strict with your eating regimen, then comes Saturday.

    Breakfast: Delicious buttermilk pancakes dripping with syrup.

    Lunch: Cheese “burger” with crispy hot fries and finished off with chewy chocolate chip cookies.

    Dinner: 8 Cheesy slices of happiness are calling your name.

    Then Sunday comes and you have to start all over again shoving your way through the willpower to push through from week.

    Like a caterpillar chewing a leaf “small bites” of your diet discipline are eaten away weakening each time you indulge.

    Then BAM!!!

    Rough day of work, fender bender, or the 4th of July…You deserve a break. You have done so good.

    And that is when your diet that officially died but you don’t know it yet.

    If you CANNOT eat the things you want on your diet, you are on the WRONG diet.

    So quit trying to reward yourself only at the end of each week — do it daily with whole foods.

    Recipe for tasty and healthy chocolate chip cookies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9EirwjC1A

  • Microplastics effects and the plant based solution – Part 2

    Microplastics effects and the plant based solution – Part 2

    Part 1: https://jeffbites.com/2026/07/06/microplastics-effects-and-the-plant-based-solution/

    How can we combat the microplastic invasion of our bodies?

    Plants of course.

    Which plants you ask?

    Kimchi???

    What’s kimchi?

    Kimchi is traditionally a Korean dish made from fermented vegetables. Napa cabbage, radish, and garlic.

    The study from South Korea discovered this glorious plant based plastic binder through several studies.

    In the lab, binding was as high as 87% to the microplastics. And when mimicking an environment similar to the human intestine the binding was about 57% effective in microplastic removal.

    Plastic pollution is not just an environmental concern but a major health concern for all.

    Turn your body into the ultimate armor combating enemies you cannot even see with a whole food plant based diet.

    Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260517211451.htm

  • Microplastics effects and the plant based solution

    Microplastics effects and the plant based solution

    Microplastics have become a major health concern.

    Why?

    Tupperware, disposable water bottles, plastic containers, plastic ware, ziploc bags, you name it. It comes in multiple colors.

    Plastic is a permanent part of our lives.

    You…cannot…escape.

    How does plastic get into our bodies anyway? It’s not like we chew on it. My pen says otherwise. 🫠

    When we eat or drink out of our plastic plates and cups nanoplastics are swallowed. Unfortunately for us we can’t digest plastic like regular foods.

    They accumulate in your gut lining wreaking chaos with our bodies causing chronic inflammation, reproductive issues, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes & obesity.

    Luckily for us there is a way to combat this plastic infestation.

    We will explore the plant based solution in Part 2.

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  • Drives you crazy but worth it

    Drives you crazy but worth it

    Being different is not easy.

    It’s the cookouts, Sunday dinners, and potlucks when you remember.

    “I’m not like everyone else anymore.”

    It’s a startling realization because I am now separate from “the pack.”

    It’s always, “Oh yeah. I forgot hun.”

    “You don’t eat what again?”

    “Just salad for you right?!”

    And then the like “The Shining Knight in Armor” my resolve breaks through.

    I eat more food than I have ever eaten on any diet.

    I am losing weight.

    Protecting my body against heart disease, various cancers and other diseases of affluence.

    I am different because I care about me.

    Stay strong remember how much you love you when things get hard.

  • 5% Schedule & 95% Muster?

    5% Schedule & 95% Muster?

    Today marks 12 weeks plant based.

    16 pounds lost.

    2 inches off of chest, belly, and waist.

    At least 1 cooked meal and 1 raw meal a day.

    Working out 6 days a week!

    My wife asked “How are you keeping this up?”

    5% schedule and 95% muster. 💪🏿

  • Why being tired can help with your workout

    Why being tired can help with your workout

    How do you behave when you are tired?

    Cranky?

    Sleepy?

    A little mean?

    Me too.

    “Leave me alone.”

    “Get out of my face.”

    I get ‘down right’ selfish.

    I want to rest and I deserve it and lord help anyone who gets in my way.

    What if you adopted that same attitude about your work out?

    Be fierce.

    Be selfish.

    Be strong.

    Be annoyed with anyone trying to stop you.

    Jobs, kids, spouses.

    This is MY TIME! 💪🏿

  • Use the Algorithm to Keep it Interesting

    Use the Algorithm to Keep it Interesting

    My algorithm thinks I am opening a vegan restaurant.

    Plant based desserts, smoothies, salads, dips, pastas, bowls, and wraps.

    The Golden Age of Plant Based Recipes is upon us:

    • Hearts of Palm Fried Fish!
    • Seitan BBQ Ribs!
    • Lentil Bolognese!
    • Seitan Corned “No Beef!”

    While not all of your recipes will turn out well, many will.

    They will become your food staples at your dinner table.

  • Better than Monster or 5 hour energy

    Better than Monster or 5 hour energy

    When you are plant-based this is better than any coffee or energy drink available.

    Eat a fruitful breakfast: Grapefruit, 2 apples, 2 Brazil Nuts, handful of Pumpkin seeds, and a banana.

    This breakfast will turn you into a “bottled rocket.”

    So if you need an extra “kick in the ass” this breakfast has you set.

    Whether it’s a morning workout or launching your household off to their their station (work, school, summer camp).

    Join the energized and kick start off your plant based diet.

  • Playing the Long Game. When eating meat may make sense??

    Playing the Long Game. When eating meat may make sense??

    When does it make the most since to start eating animal protein.

    My 1st answer would have been never which is only partially correct but…

    According to the Valter Longo of “The Longevity Diet” offers you the best health opportunity to become a Centenarian.

    When your muscles start to wither due to age-related (60s or 70s) deterioration it may be time to incorporate eggs, chicken or beef back into your diet to increase protein.

    This will decrease muscle imbalance as you age.

    I still believe a whole food plant based diet is best the Longevity Diet is fairly close so I approve.

    Come back for bite sized health tips.

  • What does your food do for you?

    What does your food do for you?

    Have you ever eaten a big salad?

    You were stuffed but some how not weighed down.

    Have you ever eaten steak and potatoes?

    While satisfying and fulfilling, you were like anchored to your seat after finishing.

    The food you eat should taste good and…

    Make you feel good.