What Are You Searching For?

In earlier posts I have mentioned Jordan Rubin's Chicken Soup and for some reason I had never Googled this phrase before:
Jordan Rubin Chicken Soup Recipe

When I searched that phrase I found a treasure trove of recipes at an official Jordan Rubin site. Jordan Rubin's company is Garden of Life and you can also follow them on Facebook. In addition to walking and other exercise you might find some great recipes and learn that food that's truly good for you can also be yummy. You might just change some habits for the better. When I was at Costco earlier I got a package of organic snack bars from Bora Bora. Crunchy, healthy energy!

During January and February I walked* 167.5 miles.

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Just Get Up & Do It...I Did!

How easy is that? I just decided to take a break and I know the dog appreciated it. I walked a mile and now I'm back. I know you can do it, too!

I'm taking Diet 360 and RAW ONE for Men from Garden of Life, who sponsors my blog, and I'm feeling better every week. I slept all the way through the night for the first time in weeks last night.

My New Deal

There have been a lot of changes around here recently. The house in San Diego that my wife and her sister have been trying to sell for 3 years finally sold a couple weeks ago. Yay! Marianne and I have been looking at houses in North County and the 250K to 350K price range has been heating up, especially relative to the 500K and up range. I couldn't change her mind about a house at the corner of Esperanza and Bliss (Hope & Bliss!) in Oceanside, but when the listing agent came back from vacation we heard there were already ten offers! So we start again tomorrow with our agent, David Diehl.

Friday afternoon I received my products from Garden of Life, so this is a disclaimer about BigManWalking. Garden of Life is now sponsoring my blog! I'll tell a little more about the two products, Diet 360 and RAW ONE for Men in a future post. You can click on the title of this post to see another product that my wife has been using for a while. It slipped my attention that Goatein was even a Garden of Life product. Our son really likes natural smoothies and we usually mix Trader Joe's European style yogurt with Goatein, bananas and frozen berries. He enjoys this at least two or three times a week and so do I if I'm not doing a high protein/low carb regimen.

Since I weighed myself Saturday morning I found that I had gained back over 9 lbs. of the 14 I lost. Be careful of the days leading up to the Super Bowl ("Well, I know I won't be good tomorrow, so I'll start early."), the day of the Super Bowl party and the days after ("I can get back in the swing tomorrow..."), chocolate and really rainy days. I was definitely not prepared for the amount of rain we had. More than once I said something like, "Honey, it's coming down in buckets. Let's not drive all the way to the YMCA in this mess." We're finally back to more typical San Diego weather as I was actually sweating during a simple mile walk earlier.

Today I started "writing" using Philips VoiceTracker while I walked. That should be a big help in walking more. My hope is that I won't affect the technology with perspiration. That, and encouragement from friends on Facebook & Twitter, is about where it's at.

During January I walked* 111.5 miles and I have walked* 142.25 miles in 2010.

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14 Pounds, 9 Days And The Garden Of Life

Yesterday morning I awoke to find that I had lost a total of 14 pounds in 9 days and today I had eaten breakfast and filled up some so no weigh-in. Still, 14 pounds in 9 days is pretty darn good. One thing I neglected to mention before about Jordan Rubin's cleanse is no caffeine. I recommend this cleanse highly. This is the third time my wife and I did the cleanse and in my experience it gets easier every time.

Then on Facebook I received a message from the Garden Of Life!

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Subject: Garden of Life

Hi Charles-

I couldn't find a link to get a contact e-mail for you so I wanted to touch base here if you don't mind. I work for Garden of Life and we came across your blog post that mentioned you losing 11 pounds partially due to doing Jordan's cleanse.

We would LOVE to sponsor you in any way! Please contact me via e-mail directly at xxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com and we can get this started!

Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you! And don't forget to become a fan of our FB page!

Have a great weekend-
Ursula Zamora
Garden of Life
Media & Public Relations

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I became a fan of Garden of Life on Facebook and we'll see how things develop next week.


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