Food Shelves - Revolutionizing the food pyramid for the modern-day person

Hello Everyone,

Patrick Vaughan again. I have been working behind the scenes recently to help develop a brand new food pyramid scheme. The portrayal of the information, and the concept is mine. However all information is taken from my boss Justin Grinnell, and it was produced by Outer graphics. The idea was to create something that was simple, user-friendly, and is also something that one could put on their fridge at home. Please SHARE this with your friends!! If you like the information, please like and follow Justin Grinnell and the State of Fitness homepage based out of East Lansing Michigan!!!

Example Resolution

Hello all,

       My name is Patrick Vaughan and I am one of the authors here at Natural Nutrition. My New Years Resolution begins today. I've had a goal for the past few years to be able to run a 1/2 iron man for this coming summer of 2014 [which is a very large goal for myself, since I was always conditioned as a sprinter through the sports of soccer, hockey, and track]. For proof you can see some of my old times in this link under the 100m, 200m, and 400m races [http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/SchoolRecords.aspx?SchoolID=9689]. They aren't anything special, but they show that these were my races back in the day. Meaning that a long endurance race, is a large change for me, and therefore it will be a challenge.

        However this has been a long goal in progress. Since I have arrived at MSU, I have been training to achieve this. In this time, I have ran a sprint triathlon, and two intermediate/olympic level ones with decent overall placings/times, considering I used a mountain bike for two of the three.

        As a subset of achieving this goal, I believe that I will need to get significantly stronger in order to endure all portions of this event. For that reason, in order to achieve my ultimate goal, I am challenging myself to put on ten pounds of pure muscle within the next 5 months.

What I am going to do to achieve this:

1. I am going to start lifting weights continuously on top of my swim/bike/run conditioning.
2. I am going to continue my current lifestyle of intermittent fasting; where I go 16-20 hours without eating, and 5-6 hours of eating [2 meal periods]. I am allowed to hydrate 24/7.
3. I will no longer consume junk food, with the exception of one small desert on Sunday nights.
4. I will painfully cease to watch television.

You can view a copy of my basic workout schedule here.....

Foreseeable obstacles:

1. I will be working two jobs; One in an Orthopedics Biomechanics Laboratory at MSU, and one as a Personal Training Intern at the State of Fitness. [Time constraint].
2. I will be taking 15 credits as a Mechanical Engineering major at Michigan State University [Time Constraint].
3. I will be updating my progress, and encouraging you all on with your own Resolutions in this blog. [Time constraint]
4. Natural Fatigue and exhaustion from working and working out.
5. Extra project assignments from my jobs, and from my teachers.
6. College shenanigans at MSU.

You can view a copy of my basic school schedule of how busy I will be, as well as when I plan to workout during the week here.....

Day One of my goal:

After fasting for 16 hours and working out for 2 hours, my baseline weight is at 163 lbs. This makes my goal to be at 173 lbs five months from now in May.

I'll be honest with my goal, and I hope you will all be with yours as well. I welcome you all to join me on this journey, and we can even have mini competitions along the way if you wish. I'm always open to spicing things up a bit! Just let us known. So let us hear some of your goals, and we shall achieve them together as a community here at Natural Nutrition.