Happy Monday!
Now that I’ve been on the 80/10/10 lifestyle for over three months, I think I’ve developed what Roger Haeske calls “Gourmet Taste Buds”. That’s when you are truly able to appreciate the flavors in raw fruits and vegetables.
And I’m totally there.
Cherries are in season right now and we never pass up the opportunity to eat them (while my wife isn’t 100% raw, she does eat a lot of fruit). We picked some up on Saturday but they didn’t last long, and since stores are closed here in Germany on Sundays, we could not get any until this morning.
We bought a package at a local store today and they were pretty much gone by the time we walked home! And the taste sensation when biting into that first cherry was simply awesome. It was the first thing I had eaten all day and I’m glad that I waited.
I get the same thing when I eat grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries… It’s something that I’d never experienced before. It’s even better than chocolate (but don’t trust me… Go 100% raw for a while and find out for yourself).
My wife still does some cooking, mostly for the kids, and today she made a potato casserole. It used to be one of my favorites. It consists of sliced potatoes that are baked in a cream sauce with onions, bacon, and parsley. It really does smell good.
Thinking about the gourmet taste buds and a comment that Roger had made about losing your taste for cooked foods, I decided to dip my finger in the sauce and take just a small taste. I used to love that sauce, and so with great anticipation, I dipped the tip of my finger in the sauce, put my finger on my tongue…
And what I tasted was absolutely atrocious. Bland. No flavor. Oily. Disgusting. YUCK!
Yes, I do have gourmet taste buds, and I am beginning to wonder if I could even eat a cooked meal at this point.
Now, about counting to 100. In today’s blog post, Roger talks about doing 100 push ups every day for better fitness. Ouch! 25-30 is a good day for me right now…
But thanks again, Roger. I now have a goal. Even if I have to do them five at a time, I’m setting a goal to get up to 100 push ups every day as soon as possible. I do have more energy and find myself looking for excuses to take walks now (not hard when you have an exercise-crazy Golden Retriever), but as I joked about recently, I’ve had enough of matchstick arms.
I’ve also read before that the older you get, the healthier you are if you have high muscle mass, so now is the time to build that up. Besides, I’m a bit vain — and the more muscle, the younger I’ll look. Some people still think that I’m 10-15 years younger than I actually am — and that’s only going to get “better” as I exercise more.
So it’s time to learn how to count to 100 over the course of a day. Hopefully some day I won’t have to worry about losing count because I’ll be able to do 100 push ups at one. Yes, that is my ultimate goal — and I think it’s quite reachable, thanks to my new lifestyle. Time will tell.
Smacznego,
Tom
