Tag Archives: Diet

Six Months Sober (aka How Not To Make Fast Friends In A Foreign Country)

Can’t see the video? Click here. So I’m now halfway through my year without alcohol. I had my last drink back on December 5th, 2010. Twas a wild and blurry night visiting a friend in Merced, CA. There were only three bars in that town, and methinks we hit each one up at least twice. [...]

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Lying to yourself for fun and profit

Can’t see the video? Click here. So I came across an ebook recently by Vlad Dolezal, called Unleash Your Confidence (affiliate link). There was one part in particular that really resonated with me. While discussing beliefs, Vlad writes, There is no “true” or “false” with beliefs, only useful and detrimental. To illustrate this, Vlad goes [...]

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Hanging with the Muslims

Fourth day of Random Acts of Courage, Part Deux. In case you’re new, here’s what’s going on: I’m doing a bunch of (meaningful!) things this week that push me out of my comfort zone. Some of the challenges I’ve tried so far include stand up comedy, apologizing to a chap I used bully, and attending [...]

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Embrace your weirdness

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain Sing it, Mark. It used to bug me when people called me weird. They called me that when I went to live 4,000 miles away from home, just to be closer to my favorite basketball [...]

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Rapid vegan muscle building: Update #2 (a.k.a. The End)

RSS and e-mail readers, please click here to watch the video that accompanies this post. So I’ve officially ended my diet/exercise experiment. If you recall, the goal was to add 20lbs of muscle, in 6 weeks, on a vegan diet, while doing just one hour of exercise per week, as inspired by Tim Ferriss’ report [...]

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