From The Stone Soup

Wow! First Menu Plan Monday of the year! We are in the process of getting all our ducks lined up to really dive into The Four Hour Body. The plan right now is to start in February when things will be better planned for some big changes.  I’ve decided that to make things easier for when we do start to start including more beans [something we both love and eat a lot of anyways] and lentils [something I love and he tolerates] into our menu. I’ve been lucky to stumble on the great blog The Stone Soup and have purchased The Tired and Hungry Cook’s Companion eBook as well as Mastering the Art of Cooking on a Budget eCourse. We’ve been eating really amazing from these and I highly suggest them. I love that there are vegetarian and vegan options – amazing. There are multiple ways for each recipe so let’s say you eat meat there is a way to add meat to the meal or if you are gluten free there will be a way to make the meal gluten free. I love that most of the food is ready within 15 minutes and only 5 ingredients are necessary. It really has streamlined our eating. I’m currently looking for some lunch options. Breakfasts are easy – tofu scramble for him and a piece of frittata for me. Lunch is always hard unless there is leftovers. We’ll see how this week goes!

This week’s food plans include

• Warm Cauliflower Salad with Lovely Lentils
• Simple Soba Noodle Soup
• Butter Chickpeas on Lovely Lentils
• Simple Tofu Laksa with Bok Choy with Miso Dressing
• Roasted Mushrooms with Creamy Mushroom Sauce [we're just going to use coconut milk for the cream] with Simple Greens
• Simple Sausage Supper with Winter Veggies [We're using field roast sausages and potatoes, onions and carrots]
• Pesto Cauliflower

I am really excited for all of this. It’s been really nice eating in this post week with lots of veggies. We had been eating out a lot during the holidays and it’s nice that now we are back on budget and eating not garbage.

What are you eating this week?

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“Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger… which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?   Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question: For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results? Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women. From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works. YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count * How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse “permanent” injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects. You don’t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue. That’s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.” {shelfari}

A book with a lot of claims. I am excited to start implementing some of this ideas of this book into my life. Here is a quick rundown of what I’ll be adding [and subtracting!] into my life:

• Slow Carb Diet [Pescatarian skewed]
• Small bursts of exercise right before and 90 minutes after I eat something
• Eating every 4 hours
• 15 minutes a day of Kettleball action
• PAGG [Vitamins and Supplements]
• Ice pack on my neck for 30 minutes a day

That is what I am starting with for the 4-Hour Body. I think that hardest will be the diet since I’m kissing carbs good bye for a bit and I think the easiest will be taking the supplements and eating every four hours. I’ll be starting on it a bit after the new year. I hope it works out great! I plan on doing to for 6 weeks.

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My family is awesome. I got a Kindle Touch with a fancy case and my brother got a Kindle Fire. I prefer mine since it’ll be easier to read from since the Fire has a shiny screen and the Touch is matte. My mom also got me the fancy Kindle case in wine with the updated light. I really like it. I am still getting use to not physically having the book in my hands and turning the pages. It’s weird and still feels most unnatural. I hope that it will get better with time. Plus since I get so many books from the library I think that the Kindle will just make my purse weigh less. I also just spoke with a librarian and soon the local library will be on the Kindle borrowing program. This makes me SO excited. Instant access to my library books in a nice, lighter, and eco friendly [less paper and gas] will make me read even more. I plan on reading 200+ books in the new year [a doable number with the amount I currently read!] way plus I just added audiobooks to my reading repertoire. I have found that I can easily listen to audiobooks while I work. It makes the day go by so much faster! The only problem I have currently is that my Kindle made my reading list gigantic. I am very excited about it.

• The Ruby in the Smoke  [Sally Lockhart Mysteries Book 1] by Philip Pullman {shelfari}
• A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce {shelfari}
• The Amulet of Smarakand by Johnathan Stroud {shelfari} – Audiobook
• Corsets & Clockwork by Trisha Telep {shelfari}
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern {shelfari} – Audiobook
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morten {shelfari}
• His Magesty’s Dragon [Temeraire] by Naomi Novik {shelfari}
• Nefertiti: Queen of Egypt, Daughter of Eternity [The Egyptian Royals Collection Book 1] by Michelle Moron  {shelfari}
• The Mischief of the Mistletoe [Pink Carnation Series Book 7] by Lauren Willig  {shelfari}
• The Alchemyst [The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 1] by Michael Scott {shelfari} – Audiobook
• The Pillars of the Earth [Book 1] by Ken Follett {shelfari} – Kindle
• Fire [The Seven Kingdoms Trilogy Book 2] by Kristin Cashore {shelfari}
• Outlander [Book 1] by Diana Gabaldon {shelfari} – Kindle
• The Tea Rose [The Teas Rose Trilogy Book 1] by Jennifer Donnelly {shelfari}
• Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin {shelfari}
• Silent on the Moor [Lady Julia Grey Book 3] by Deanna Raybourn {shelfari}
• The Spider’s Web [Sister Fidelma Book 5] by Peter Tremayne {shelfari}
• The Mists of Avalon [Avalon Book 1] by Marion Zimmer Bradley {shelfari} – Kindle
• Rachel [Rashi's Daughters Book 3] by Maggie Anton {shelfari}
• The Ruins of Gorlan [The Ranger's Apprentice Book 1] by John Flanagan {shelfari} – Audiobook
• Rebel Angels [Gemma Doyle Trilogy Book 2] by Libba Bray {shelfari} – Audiobook
• Madonna of the Seven Hills [Lucrezia Borgia Series Book 1] by Jean Plaidy {shelfari}
• The Mage’s Daughter [Nine Kingdoms Book 2] by Lynn Kurland {shelfari}
• The Reincarnationist [Book 1] by M. J. Rose {shelfari} – Kindle
• Sabriel [The Abhorsen Chronicles Book 1] by Garth Nix {shelfari}
• The Sisters by Nancy Jensen {shelfari}
• Matched [Matched Trilogy Book 1] by Allyson Braithwaite Condie {shelfari}
• The Twentith Wife [Book 1] by Indu Sundaresan {shelfari}
• Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Standell {shelfari}
• Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross {shelfari}
• The Boleyn Inheritance [The Tudors Book 3] by Philippa Gregory {shelfari}
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs {shelfari}
• Hood [King Raven Trilogy Book 1] by Stephen R. Lawhead {shelfari}
• Encyclopedia of the Exquisite by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins {shelfari} – Kindle
• The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferris {shelfari} – Kindle

What are you reading right now?

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