Chick Fil Bae. I eat way too much, but I'm leaner than I was at the beginning of the year and my squat/deadlift have gone up almost 100 pounds each. So maybe I should stick with it.
You really only need one book IMO. It's a quick read and depending on how well you eat now will determine the meal planning and pantry issues. It's pretty easy in concept, no sugars, dairy, legumes, grains/pasta or alcohol. The other recipe book is good for ideas on how to change things up because it certainly feels monotonous. As for kids, ours do 2/3 meals a day with us. They are not picky eaters at all as we've never catered to them. For lunch they still made sandwiches every day but were on board for breakfast and dinner.
Kudos to you guys that meal prep successfully. I've been hitting the gym regularly 4-5 times a week but my lunch habits are straight awful during work.
Week 3 of 5 days a week lifting, and week 1 of morning cardio intervals. Couldn't feel better. Week 2 of lunch meal prep with Chicken, Brown Rice, and roasted green pepper, red pepper, poblano pepper, zucchini, yellow squash, sweet potatoes, and carrots. Now just need to do a better job getting meal prep for the other meals and I'll be set. Taking BCAA's after noon lifting, and Whey after morning cardio.
Going 2,000 calories/day on Monday until my body looks like it was sculpted by Jesus himself. I'm worried about losing muscle mass, but hopefully a really high amount of protein will compensate for that.
LOL at these guys that get to eat 1,700-2,000 a day and get ripped. At 37 i'm lucky to lose 1lb per week with this on macros and 8pm-noon fasting.
Good friend of mine has been doing this and for a while now. He's probably lost 35+ lbs. I don't see how he is able to keep his carb intake as low as it is.
Dom Dagostino has deadlifted an absurd amount of weight while in ketosis. Trivial I know but I'm sure there are ways to keep athletic performance up.
Drugs or not, whatever he's doing is working. He's spent his life studying it so he might have some answers. I was just speaking off the cuff for an amateur athlete like myself who's tried it. Typically, they'll consume enough carbs pre-workout to sustain performance and when they're gone they'll be burned up and the body will go back into ketosis. I understand wanting to go full bore and eliminate one thing but taking a balanced approach works for many as well and is likely more sustainable long term unless you want to turn yourself into a pariah. TL;DR YMMV, if it works do it. Take tren just to be sure.
Anyone experimented with non-dairy protein powders? Trying pea protein powder right now and I think the elevated arginine levels are making me pee out of my butt. Might need to switch to hemp. dear diary
Vegans have more sex. TBH dairy is p gross when you think about it. I've switched to a grain free, dairy free, sugar free diet. Been a couple days so not been too hard. Woke up this morning lighter and had 0 gut distention which I normally wake up with. I have an 'approved foods' list if anyone wants it PM me.
Other than cheese, I can't quit the cheese but it was far easier to stop for a period of time than I had originally thought. In doing so I cut my intake down by 1/5, easily.
yeah, i've been limiting sugar and dairy for a while now. recently started trying to work on my carbs too. any heavy carb or sugar meal just makes me bloated nowadays. stopped taking whey because it made me feel like shit.
At the end of the day I just want low BP, good cholesterol, 10% bodyfat, 5 girlfriends, and a pile of money. That's what this thread is really about.
I cut grains for a few months before and really limit them now. I will eat pizza with my kids but other than that, I try not to eat too many. I've ditched rice but on occasion I'll eat around 1/3 cup with a meal. I will also splurge on some oatmeal from time to time but it's just not the same without brown sugar and milk so I rarely eat it now. I also stopped drinking beer and have enjoyed the switch to red wine. I've kept meticulous count of everything I've eaten for 4 months (after a bulk) and weighed myself daily. It's like clockwork, I'll eat more carbs than usual (I usually keep my carbs to around >50g, occasionally up to 75), like having pizza with my kids and weigh myself the next day and voila...2-3lbs of weight gain due to water retention. I can just feel the water and shit sitting in my gut. It's pretty simple...high protein, high fat, limit the carbs..at least for me. Combined with fasting, I've decreased nearly all health markers (cholesterol, triglycerides, etc) quite substantially without a single drug. I also went from a resting heart rate of 54 to 41.
let's pretend that i wanted to cut out a decent amount of grains in my diet. other than just eating fruit with every meal, is starch the only other primary source of carbs?
Why? The lower the better. Tour de France riders have resting heart rates in the low 30s. Miguel Indurain had one supposedly around 28-29.
Well, you are posting in the health and fitness thread, so I assume you have a better activity level than most. However, the typical range is 60-100 (my resting HR is generally around ~60). Typically, a resting HR around or below 40 is something only endurance athletes are able to achieve, due to the strength and efficiency of the heart muscle. Unless you would consider yourself to be in the same category as professional/semi-professional athletes (which you may and I make no assumptions), it would probably be worth looking into. As I understand it, a lot of factors could go into causing a person of more moderate activity level (i.e. working out 4-5 times a week for 30-60 minutes) to have a resting HR that low; some benign, and some potentially dangerous (such as arrhythmia, or etc.). If your doctor has never mentioned it to you, you might well be fine, but it wouldn't hurt to ask about it during your next appointment. I've known people with resting HRs in the 40-50 range to get testing done, come to find that they had some previously unknown heart issues that didn't require any immediate action, but can be very helpful to know about as you age. BTW, I'm not a doctor, just a guy on a message board. TMB doctors (real ones, not fake ones), feel free to correct me if I have gone off the rails here.
Fruit, aka nature's candy...obviously high in carbs. Same with the breads, cereals, wraps, etc. Obviously some carbs are way better than others. Potatoes are high in carbs as are beans. Beans are high in fiber though, so the whole 'net carb' (carbs-fiber=net carb) comes into play. Beans don't affect me nearly as much as bread, etc. I'd start with cutting out bread and limiting your portions of potatoes, rice and ditch the cereals. Obviously severely limit the sugar too. Start with a few things, then expand.
Fruit, root vegetables, leaf vegetables, juices for the items mentioned previously. You're basically going to eat a lot of potatoes and potato starch
Appreciate it. My dad's a doctor, so I'm good. He was the one observing my blood work. Edit: I'm also no where near an endurance athlete but have been on a steady regimen of HIIT. Similar results, fraction of the time IMO.
Just to double down on DD there, just try not to eat empty carbs. Or severely limit them where possible. Try skipping a few days without bread, rice, pasta and see how you feel. If youre starving drink more water and eat more vegetables until your body adjusts. My first go round I swear I ate about a pound of carrots a night for about 8 or 9 days. Once my body adjusted I was good, cravings completely disappeared.