Simple breakfast: Waffles

Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day.  I like to think of my body as a car.  If I do not put the gas I need in it, well...it just stops.  This breakfast is simple but filling and full of flavor.  Peanut flour waffles (recipe from my friends book &/or blog:  Maria Emmerich) two eggs over easy and fruit.  These flavors really do expode.

There are a few healthier versions of flour.  These waffles are made with almond flour.

You can also use Sprouted Flour

 The important thing is that you have breakfast.  These are just a few of my weekend breakfast I have before starting my day having some waffles and fruit.

The best part is you can make a batch and put them in the freezer.  Then on a day you are in a hurry, just stick them in the toaster, put some fruit on the or cook your fruit down in butter.  If all else fails, put the syrup of your choice but make sure you read lables.  If you do not know what it is and you see the secret words for sugar like:

 

High Fructose Corn Syrup

 Corn syrup

Sucrose

Barley Malt

Honey

Molasses

Mannitol

Cane juice crystals

 Cane sugar
 Caramel
  Corn syrup solids
 Carob syrup
 Dextran
 Dextrose
 Fructose
 Galactose
 Glucose
  Lactose
 Maltodextrin
 Maltose
 Malt syrup
 Sorbitol
  Treacle

 

I am sure there are more that I may have missed.  Just remember that sugar is the reason that many of us have the problems that we have.  Use a sugar that is safe and natural rather than all of those man made chemicals.

My 100 pound weight loss

I recently wrote a book about a long journey I took with my wife. It's about our weight loss and diabeties. This is not a cookbook...it is about how I was raised, the foods that we ate, the struggles we had growing up and my family. This is the premise of the book:

This book is about my wife and I during the past year and a half and our struggle in improving our health. We took a long journey together and lost 150 total pounds. Her 50 and me 100. It was not easy.

During the past 18 years after I retired from the U.S. Marine Corps my health slowly turned for the worse. It began with mistakes I made during my lifetime. I was a chain smoker and I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for over 28 years. I quit cold turkey and used M&M's as my substitute. Of all the things I picked...M&M's.

Soon after I quit smoking, I began to notice my health becoming an issue. I went to take my annual physical and soon found that I was a Diabetic. I was placed on medication and continued medication for over 17 years.

After the loss of my Little Brother, I had a re-awakening. I realized that I needed to make changes in my life but I did not know how. Then my prayers were answered.
You can find this book at:

http://www.amazon.com/Hots-Cot-Mr-Ruben-Pena/dp/1475202857/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353246248&sr=8-2&keywords=3+hot%27s+%26+a+cot