McDonalds Diet for 2012

Pat\'s McDonalds Diet – Back in the Saddle
I’m eating salad and loving it!

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A good friends commemts about playing – the Beatles The Grammys and Yesterday

A friend emailed me after tonight’s Grammys and said how much she liked when we played Beatles together….And I miss playing too. But some time ago I did write Yesterday from a different point of time and space…What would Yesterday sound like if John Lennon wrote it and it was just as ingrained into our popular culture. And this is what came in as an inspiration http://soundcloud.com/pat-3-1/yesterday
Hope You Like it. Pat’s Yesterday

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Gratitude

I have been following the music success in nine weeks put on by the songwriters association and Ariel Hyatt. Reading the tweets and Facebook additions of everyone involved is inspiring and reminds me how many people are following their dream and passions.
I just shared a great and most relaxing weekend with my wife. And wee rented a hotel with jacuzzi and we sorted our entire years taxes. It was great! We are planning to release a couple of digital projects and sharing the time together without kids or other distractions, allowed us to really shift our focus and regenerate. It was, as Tim Ferris calls a mini retirement, but it took place over a weekend reviewing an entire year of receipts. I love the fact that we also did something so proactive too. Getting the fiscal house in order is the first step towards making the path work in our favor.

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My McDonalds Diet

So, Last year I thought I would look at my health – from top to bottom -and found out a few things. Like Candida is a big problem in my body….and so I went in search of the right doctors to find the right answers…because most of the Doctors I saw really didn’t understand – or even considered this to be a problem and non thought it was dietary.
I did find a great M.D. named Dr. Gannage. He took a live cell of my blood and showed it to me. It was unbelievable. The images showed an entire universe in fast motion….and there were a lot of undesirable thing floating in there. I’ll put up pictures in the next blog. To combat this problem, I had to take probiotics and radically change my diet.
Now I have small kids – 5 and 6. They like McDonalds. So I find myself there from time to time. And then it occured to me. What if I started eating the McDonalds salads with no dressing or croutons? Would I lose weight? I mean, could someone actually increase their McDonalds food consumption and lose weight? – Well I did. SO here is a picture of me when I began the process at 240 LBS.
Pat as the FatGuy So over time, 6 months, I reduced my weight by 30 LBS. I gained some back over Christmas. Proving to myself what is best for me to eat and what I best to leave alone. I took a picture of me with my McDonald salad every week proving the process. Now, if I can do this working a regular job, imagine what would be possible on the road touring…a guaranteed healthy fast food available almost everywhere! An oasis from all the junk food that touring can lead to….I’ll post more pictures of the transformation over the next few blogs so you can see for yourself.

PS. I don’t look like this anymore!

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MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC

I have sooo much music to share – It can be hard to figure out what to post…and why.
SO I’ll figure it out – unless you have some suggestions and then you can let me knowYin and Yang
It’s all about balance. Something I have sometimes and something I aspire to have

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Finding Old Mixes

So I sat with my buddy Dave the other day and moved some files we recorded on A-DAT…Remember A-Dat….Well on first listen, with just the raw files, I was blown away! SO ON – Tight and sharp. I miss the fun and power of those days for sure. The songs were never released so I’m working on getting them prepared. – Some of the bands finest and most mathematical work. I love the music I have been involved with and I love the music that is pouring forth now.
Ahh the now. For a time shifter now is relative to location, dimension, emotion and of coarse electro-magnetic energy. See you sometime…..

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HARD ROCK HYDE PARK

Pat Canavan
Hey Everybody, Here is a song I wrote for my friend Erika, and now I’d like play it live in London England this Summer….but there is a catch….I need people to download the song for free.
Your DOWNLOAD is most helpful! OhYa, tell your friends too

THANKS! Pat

FREE Tracks. Download to Vote. Decide a Winner!
http://www.reverbnation.com/hard_rock_rising/2276363
I voted for Pat Canavan to play LIVE at for Hard Rock Rising. Download FREE tracks and vote now! Voting ends February 5th.

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Music and Other such addictions

I am totally hooked on writing music. It’s one of the best experiences of my life. And now I would like to take the latest collection of tunes out on the road and play it to a live audience.
I’ve been actualizing for a while now and we have been planing and learning and yearning and ….actualizing it step by step.

So cheers to my fellow SAC bloggers…who are also on this path
Pat Canavan FREEDOM Video – Almost 5 years ago

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Louis CK – Great work

So I paid and downloaded Louis’new video for $5 bucks..http://www.louisck.net..great way to promote and sell. And he’s made a fortune doing it.

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Web Blackout

It’s a bit odd that I’m writing a blog on the day that most people are calling for a Web Blackout because of a Bill that is being tabled in the U.S.

But here is my blog anyway along with my stance on the issue.

I do feel that the internet should be free and available to everyone. I also feel that the rethink of the internet by lobbyists, corporations and government in the name of something else, like our security, is a bullshit claim. Remember 911? That well crafted U.S. military event?
On the 10th anniversary of that horrible event, the media will not allow the truth of what really happened to be aired, (It was an inside job) we will only be reminded of what “THEY” want us to remember. (Someone else did it)

I’ve asked people recently who was behind 911? And even with all of the truth out there, the response I got to the question was Saddam Hussein.  So that strong-arm tactics and marketing worked.

I hope enough voices are raised! I hope that the bill is squashed!

Peace to all of you!

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The beginning of the Blog

Well here is the official day 1 of my blog and what a moment! I’ve put on the page the video and lyrics of FREEDOM – A song I wrote and recorded and put a video of my first Apple laptop being delivered. Ahh Freedom! And the songs has a pretty good hook too! click here to see Pat Canavan FREEDOM Video!  YOu can also see my very young ones in this video……A quick shout out to all my Blog Peeps and the great folks over at the Song Writers Association in Toronto!

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