From cupboard to caveman

Nice simple little piece this evening on nutrition and the absolute reassurance that we can eat caveman style from only selecting from our cupboard and fridge. Just polished off a great meal of organic quinoa, tuna, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, celery and lentils.

Was really delicious and hopefully just the thing to give me some energy after I have been flagging the last couple of days and not sure what is wrong with me.

Meal cost next to nothing to make and is full of caveman goodness that we can all grow to enjoy and love.

Have a look through your pantry and let’s hear of some more recipes that use caveman foods that cost next to nothing.

Running together stride for stride on a life changing ride! – Sean Muller

Black tea potions

I am currently sitting with my foot in a bucket of black tea mixture... What you may be thinking – this bloke has seriously lost it right now. You see folks my feet have obviously become soft during my lack of running over the past couple of weeks and so yesterday I went for a lunchtime run and developed a blood blister on the inside of my right foot. I know what caused the blister and it was almost certainly the lack of socks that I was wearing during my run. Normally running in just trainers is fine for me, but for some reason this area got irritated this time round.

Soaking with black tea really helps to harden the feet folks. Try it sometime.

Running together – stride for stride on a life changing ride! – Sean Muller

Life reflections and running

Life is way to short friends. Unfortunately death comes upon us all too soon.

I have been reflecting on this fact this week as some very strange things have been occurring. A friend and running buddy is off to pursue his dream job on the other side of the world in the process packing in a very good corporate job. I can only commend him on his actions and think that many more of us should be doing this or considering it now.

I am so glad that he has found that which he wants to be doing with the rest of his life. It is a stark reminder of what I have been saying here all along – ‘Life is not inside your office making someone else rich, nor is it on your couch stuffing potato chips into your mouth while getting fat and lazy’. All this stuff is superficial.

Do yourself a favour this weekend, throwaway the Wii and Playstation, turn off the TV and computer and head out that door. Savour every minute out there performing man’s greatest freedom as you don’t want your last moments to be spent on the couch.

Running together folks (and beating obesity) stride for stride on a life changing ride! – Sean Muller

Turning lives around

I am always fascinated by the conversations I hear people sharing about different topics. The one I heard the other morning while at the gym revolved around why we as human beings could fly aeroplanes and put people into space, but we could not come up with an effective fool proof way of weight loss and keeping it off.

I had to hold my tongue to correct this tubby individual by saying that we have an effective way and have had one around for as long as we have been on this earth. It is called the old-fashioned ‘Get your butt off the couch and start running and eating healthily’ plan. It requires no pills or potions, and many are doing it every day even without shoes.

Look at tribes around the world and you will see that mostly the only overweight people are the kings. You won’t find any of the warriors or workers who are overweight (fat being a sign of wealth in these communities).

There is no magic pill folks, but there is a program that we can follow to ensure that we are happier and healthier:

• Live simpler – how much stuff do we actually need

• Eat less and healthier – if you don’t buy it you won’t eat it and pretty soon you won’t miss it!

• Live closer to the earth

• Get active and run and teach your children to do the same

Let’s stop trying to find new ways when old ways work just fine. Let’s stop making excuses for being an overweight culture! Throwaway the Wii, turn off that TV, get off that couch and out the door.

We can beat obesity together! I lost 35kgs, got my cholesterol down and turned my life around and so can you! Like anything though you really have to want this lifestyle. If you are content to be lazy and undisciplined then as harsh as it is to say you will remain fat and unhealthy.

Running together – Stride for stride on a life changing (obesity beating) ride. – Sean Muller