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Was It The Michael Phelps Diet? Or the Water in Eureka?

Was It The Michael Phelps Diet? Or the Water in Eureka?

I’m sure that most of you that read my blog know that I have this propensity to go for broke when I eat. Some kid that I’m “eating for two” or three or even ten. In fact, in my last few food challenges (like the Burritozilla, Beth’s 12 Egg Omelette, Pho Garden Challenge and the Fraiche Triple Slider Challenge) I’d often remark that it looked like I’d been “knocked up” after tackling such ginormous portions.

Many of these extra calories were consumed during a road trip back from the US with Kelly. I flew down to San Jose in late October to meet her and the two of us made our way home through the coast of California, Oregon and Washington. Between food challenges we hit a lot of interesting places like Napa Valley for its Wine and Eureka because I wanted to see if it was anything like the TV Show with the same name. Sadly, no.

What I didn’t realize was that many of these things (my knocked up appearance, the major amounts of extra calories consumed) was simply foreshadowing for something else that would change our lives forever.

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