Chipotle Chicken Fajita Burrito

1. Mix McCormick's Chipolte Marinade with 1/2 cup canola oil and 1/2 cup water
2. Pour half of marinade on 3-4 chicken breast fillets, let sit in fridge 1/2 hr.
3. Dice red and green peppers, 1/2 a red onion; put in pan with 1/2 cup corn and small can green chiles. Pour rest of marinade into veggies w/ 1-2 tsp. cider vinegar. Heat at low to med. temp. for 10-15 min.
4. Boil 3/4 cup lentil beans in water, until water dehydrates. Mash softened beans into a bean spread, mixing in 1 tsp. sea salt, 1 tsp. black pepper. (this spread is a much healthier and better tasting alternative to refried beans.)
5. Pour about 3/4 cup whole grain wild rice into a vegetable steamer microwave pot; microwave for 7 1/2 min.
6. Get the chicken, cook in a pan w/ marinade, covered, until chicken is done. Dice chicken.
7. Lay out flour tortilla, lay out bean spread, rice, veggies, chicken, light sour cream. Roll up.
8. Open mouth, shove Chipolte Chicken Fajita Burrito into mouth and move jaws up and down, so as to grind food between teeth to ensure the beginning of proper digestion, mixing with saliva and going down the throat. YUM.

Music tidbit

Anyone looking for some hilarious tunes to listen to: Go to Pandora.com or Amazon and sample "THE MOOG COOKBOOK". Think SoundGarden or Lenny Kravitz on Nintendo Gameboy.

Watch the Rambo IV trailer right here

The Menu

BREAKFAST:
2-3 eggs/ egg beaters alternate days
1/2 cup 1% cottage cheese
2-3 slices pineapple
1 bowl Kashi shredded wheat w/ cinnamon & 1% milk
1 bowl Kashi creamy vanilla oatmeal w/ 1 Tblsp olive oil
1 cup tomato juice
1 cup cranberry pomegranate juice w/2 tsp cider vinegar

LUNCH: (which is actually an extended continual snack from 11:30-3:00)
1 cup fruit cocktail
1 red delicious apple
1 bartlett pear (alt. days)
1 Healthy Choice dinner
2-3 homemade cinnamon-apple-oatmeal cookies
1 cup yogurt
1 cup low-sugar vanilla pudding
1-2 granola bars
1 6-oz. can solid white tuna
3/4 lb. red grapes
1-2 slices homemade whole wheat onion herb bread (occasionally)
2 48-oz. mugs of water

SUPPER:
1-2 salmon fillets or chicken breast
1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese
1-2 cups whole wheat pasta w/spaghetti sauce
1 bowl romaine lettuce/ spinach leaves w/mediteranean dressing
1-3 glasses water

hello

well, my romantic wife, Rebecca, talked me into setting this up. Hi.

For those who know me and haven't seen me in awhile, I've been on a health mission for the last year-and-a-1/2: Long-term heart attack prevention. To see if it works, just follow this blog until I die.
Actually, I got started on this after my dad's passing from a "silent" heart attack (no warning signs other than mild dizziness, typically). For the 2nd consecutive generation, a male Stevenson died before age 60. At the funeral, a relative informed me that no one on that side of the family has made it passed their early 60's aside from great-grandad (83) and a great-aunt(currently in her 90's). Everyone else apparently had a heart attack and a couple cancer victims. (Now, I suppose if I were able to choose my method of becoming deceased, a quick heart attack in your sleep really would be the ideal way to go, so long as it was after about age 70-75.)
Then I got my cholesterol reading: 265. So, since then I've been trying to figure out ways of heart-attack prevention. The earlier you start, the better, right? Some people call me and others who are consumed with health and nutrition "health-freaks." I call us a long-term solution to the health insurance crisis that everybody's always crying about on TV and movies (Sicko). The better health you're in, odds are the less you'll see a doctor.
So, what did I do?
This sounds kind of cheesy, but I watched ROCKY BALBOA when it came out in theaters. I grew up watching the Rocky's. At first, I thought that watching a 60-yr-old Sly Stallone in another Rocky film was going to be just shameful. But like a lot of people, I was very surprised to see how good of condition he was in, and I definitely thought it was one of the more enjoyable films I've seen in a long time, especially since I related to the theme: trying to beat the aging process. I went to a bookstore and found "Sly Moves", Stallone's diet and exercise book. I followed it almost word for word. The results were surprising. In about 5 months, my weight stayed the same, I lost about three waist sizes, I felt a million times better and my cholesterol dropped to 165. I'm actually looking forward to aging. Bring it on.
I'll tell you what a 3500 calorie-a-day diet looks like next time.