Check out what Brody made for dinner

Vegetables sautéed in garlic and olive oil along side steamed shrimp sprinkled with lemon pepper. Looks good and healthy. No wonder that guy is in such good shape.

Creating energy naturally

A few rules to follow, if you want to create energy naturally:

1. Just before a game or hard workout, eat some complex/simple carbs like fruits, including apples, plums, pears, citrus fruit (not juice) and berries. They're great right before a workout as they give you a small spike without the massive plummet.

2. Two to three hours before a hard workout, complex carbs, good fats and small amounts of protein will do the trick. Olive oil, almond butter, flax oil, walnuts, almonds and eggs are all easy to digest and should give you more sustained energy for the day.

3. After the workout is long done, your body is nitrogen-poor and your muscles have been broken down. That's why you need amino acids from animal proteins like chicken, fish, beef and eggs.

Friday morning breakfast at the Duggers

Hey everybody, look what James, Brody, Travis and Heather all had for breakfast. We cooked up some scrambled eggs in one pan, and in the other, a mixture of turkey sausage, spinach, garlic, mushrooms and sliced almonds. It was real good.

A Recipe for Pumpkin and Chicken Curry

• 2 chicken breasts (sliced into strips)
• 5 cups pumpkin (diced)
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion (diced)
• 2 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
• 2 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 tbsp ground turmeric
• 2 tbsp ground coriander
• 2 tbsp ground cumin
• 1.5 cups vegetable stock
• 1 bunch fresh coriander (chopped)

Fry onion and garlic in a large pan with oil on medium heat for 2 minutes. Add chicken and cook, stirring constantly until chicken has turned white. Add pumpkin, ginger, turmeric, coriander and cumin, then stir for 1 minute. Add stock and let simmer on low for 15 minutes. Add chopped coriander, then cover pan and cook for another 2 minutes. Season with sea salt.

Paleo Mayonnaise

• 1 whole egg
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/4 tsp dry mustard
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup flax seed oil

Put egg, lemon juice and mustard in blender and blend for 3-5 seconds. Continue blending and slowly add oils. Blend until the mayonnaise is thick. Scrape mayonnaise into a snap lock plastic container and refrigerate. The Mayonnaise should keep for 5-7 days.

A message to everyone doing the diet challenge

Hey everybody doing the diet challenge, try to incorporate all of these foods into your diet.

• Shrimp
• Eggs (preferably cage-free/organic)
  
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Garlic
• Spinach
• Avocados/Guacamole
• Almonds
  
• Salmon (wild)
  
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  

A sea scallop recipe for ya'll to try out

• 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
• 1 tbsp olive oil
  
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp chili powder
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 lb sea scallops

Whisk ingredients together in small bowl to create marinade. Combine marinade and scallops, then stick in fridge for 30 minutes. Probably be a good idea to throw a salad together while waiting for the scallops to marinate. Cook scallops in a large skillet over medium heat for 2-3 minutes per side. Serves 4