Hey everyone, just so there’s no confusion, at this point in time, I’m not a horribly unhealthy person. True, for most of my life I overindulged in many areas that I shouldn’t have. I am currently overweight and do not get a ton of exercise, although with a 60,000 square foot, two-story printing plant requiring my attention in almost every nook and cranny, I do my fair share of steps in a day. That being said, I know my blog is about meat, alcohol and screwing around – but I want you to know that I do eat healthy. I am currently on a slightly modified version of what’s called ‘The Discipline Diet’, which is a diet that my friend Ed has been developing over the past decade. It involves meal supplementation, and intermittent fasting, followed by a large meal at night. I lost almost 40lbs in under 2 months doing this before my wedding, but then kind of fell off for a while. Weight is something I do struggle with – work can get very stressful and crazy, and food and alcohol have always been great reducers of that stress. I’m determined to stay with this until I’m down to a healthy weight. I do the diet throughout the week, but for my sanity, I have to have either a big cheat day, or two semi-cheat days on the weekend. I’m currently down 13 pounds since the new year (even with the brew festival and meat I eat), and I plan to keep going. I’ve gotten into preparing these ultra-hearty salads on this diet that I can almost barely finish, and I love them. I’ll go to the store, spend $35-40, and eat salad all week. Here’s a pic of the one I had tonight!

That thing was a beast to take down! I like to use dense vegetables too – I’ll use peppers and snap peas and shit. This really fills you up. The diet is very specific about the percentages of protein, carbohydrates and fat your calories make up – I’ve done it long enough that I know by now. Anyways. When you take a huge salad like this down, you gotta celebrate with some protein – – – behold:

That shit would make ‘Salt Bae’ lose his shit right there.

So, that’s all gang – I didn’t want you to think that I was someone trying to kill themselves by eating terrible food and drinking their fool face off every night. Honestly, I rarely drink during the week. I save it for the weekend, or I’ll have one or two with the guys for a mid-week happy hour on occasion. As I said, I’m past the point of (intentionally) drinking until I pass out..  this past weekend was an exception – but I had to get my money’s worth, right?!