Mixed Green Salad with smoked pecans and blackened sirloin.  Tossed with lite balsamic viniagrette.  From the Up in Smoke Catering Menu..

October Quote of the Month:

Everyday is an opportunity for improvement- Joe Weider The Master Blaster

About Tyrone T. Irby Owner Choice Personal Fitness and Up in Smoke Catering

Irby is a native of Brooklyn, NY and came to North Carolina to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983.  Weighing in at a mere 145 pounds at 5’10” in high school, he was the butt of many a joke in school.  An avid comic book fan, he certainly identified with the Jack Lalane ad with “the skinny kid getting sand kicked in his face”.

Gradually he began to gain weight at Carolina and over the years through good nutrition and weight training has built his body up to a fit 215 pounds. “It’s interesting that now kids high school age and trying to lose weight rather than gain weight.  20% of high school kids in America are overweight and I am sure it was the opposite back in 1983”

Irby has been training for the past ten years and in 2005 founded the Up in Smoke Catering Co.- the Triangle area’s most health conscious catering service.  Up in Smoke offers a wide variety of health conscious foods that are either grilled, roasted, or smoked.  Up in Smoke does not offer any fried foods on or off the menu.  His personal philosophy of fitness has been transferred to Choice Personal Fitness.