Showing posts with label food log. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food log. Show all posts

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Food Log - "...it's always the food."


11/17 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, chocolate milk, eggs, peanut butter, water, Muscletech Platinum Whey, fish oil, steak, ZMA

11/18 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, chocolate milk, eggs, peanut butter, water, Muscletech Platinum Whey, fish oil, steak, chicken, pork chop, ZMA

11/19 - coffee, milk, eggs, peanut butter, water, Muscletech Platinum Whey, oatmeal, avocado, bacon jam

11/20 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, chocolate milk, eggs, peanut butter, water, Muscletech Platinum Whey, fish oil, pork, mashed potatoes, red cabbage, Coke Zero

11/21 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, chocolate milk, eggs, peanut butter, water, Muscletech Platinum Whey, fish oil, oatmeal, yogurt drink, Coke Zero

11/22 - coffee, milk, yogurt drink, Coke Zero, hamburger, cheddar, mayo, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, mac & cheese, pie w/whipped cream

11/23 - coffee, milk, chocolate milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, fish oil, turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, mac & cheese, ZMA

Lift-Run-Bang - This is a great top-to-bottom article on why we...: "This is a great top-to-bottom article on why we have an epidemic in regards to obesity. If you don't feel like reading the article, here is the high level overview in order to help someone you know get this under control, or under control yourself.  12 Graphs That Show Why People Get Fat

- Cut down on your processed food consumption. In other words, if it comes in a box (for the most part), don't eat it. Stick to foods that require cooking. Stay away from fast food as much as possible. 

- Cut down on your sugar consumption. This mainly comes from soft drinks. If you are a basic bitch "can't even"....switch to diet. Spare me the "diet drinks have the same effect". I've already posted a previous study that showed this is false. It's amazing to me that people still drink "full" sodas like Coke, Pepsi, etc. 
- Just because it's the holidays doesn't mean you should be in bulk mode the whole time. This doesn't surprise me. People gain weight during the holidays, and then never do anything to take it off. Look, if you're someone who lives the gym lifestyle, this may not apply to you. But most people do eat far too much during the holiday season and then never do a thing to get that weight off. Add 10 years of that on your life, and now you're talking about a significant amount of fat gain. Enjoy the holiday eating, just keep moderation in mind about it though.

- Understand a healthy eating budget. Most junk is cheap. But you can buy whole chicken, eggs, oatmeal, rice, tuna, etc on the cheap. I guess it depends on what is more important to you. Eating junk or feeling awesome. 

- Narrow down your food choices. The more options you have, the more you tend to eat. This requires discipline on your part, however. Yeah, that generally means that ugly word "diet". Limiting food options is a part of that. - Choose good fat sources like olive oil, safflower oil, nut butters, etc. 

- Be active. Duh. Because of technology there is a higher demand for jobs that ask most of us to be less active. If you're sitting at work all day, and moving very little, then either you're going to have to drastically reduce caloric intake or actually MOVE when you get off of work. You can also move work at work by doing shit like taking the stairs, going for a walk at lunch, and parking at the far end of the parking lot. 

- Weekend binging adds up. Most people eat significantly more calories on the weekend. Especially in social gatherings. Again, exercise some restraint and moderation in these cases, or just be a hermit for a while until you can get your fatness under control. 

- Sleep more. A lack of sleep generally means more cravings and has a high correlation to hormones associated with weight gain. I don't care if you feel like you can "function on 5 hours". When possible, sleep more. Take naps too."




Monday, November 17, 2014

Food Log.



11/10 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, eggs, fish oil - Dinner Party/DIY-make your own-Sushi hand rolls, beer, sake, whiskey, pudding

11/11 - coffee, milk, Coke Zero, shrimp, water

11/12 -   coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, eggs, fish oil, Coke Zero, beef, pork, ZMA

11/13 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, water, Coke Zero, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, eggs, fish oil, peanut butter, tuna, mayo, nori, steak, avocado

11/14 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, fish oil, cauliflower bacon soup, steak, Coke Zero, peanut butter

11/15 - coffee, milk, peanut butter, chicken, Coke Zero, Muscletech Platinum Whey, ZMA

11/16 - coffee, milk, yogurt drinks, karaage/chicken, Coke Zero, goat's cheese/blue cheese, pork chop, mac & cheese

Sunday, November 09, 2014

Food Log - "Whyyy are you so faaat?"



11/3 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno/Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Ultrapro Whey, eggs, peanut butter, steak, ZMA

11/4 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno/Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Ultrapro Whey, eggs, peanut butter, steak, french fries, Coke Zero, fish oil, Quest bar, ZMA

11/5 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno/Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, eggs, Quest bar, fish oil, ZMA

11/6 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno/Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, fish oil, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, Coke Zero, Quest bar, crepes [salted butter caramel, pineapple & almonds &  strawberry coulis & lemon], Brut Apple Cider, ZMA

11/7 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Ferox/Permaswole, water, chocolate milk, Muscletech Platinum Whey, Quest bar, cranberry & buffalo Warrior bar, peanut butter 

11/8 - coffee, milk, chicken, beer, chocolate, cranberry & buffalo Warrior bar, peanut butter, ZMA

11/9 - coffee, milk, bacon, eggs, sausage [movie food/no pic], M&M's, Coke Zero, Coco Ichibanya karaage omelette rice curry, water




Monday, November 03, 2014

Food Log - "...a diet that reduces carbohydrates in favor of fat improves nearly every health measurement."



10/27 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, water, peanut butter, eggs, Ultrapro Whey, cod liver oil, lamb currant mint bar

10/28 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, Spike, chocolate milk, water, peanut butter, Ultrapro Whey, cod liver oil, eggs, bacon, Quest bar

10/29 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, Hydroxycut, chocolate milk, water, Ultrapro Whey, milk, eggs, cod liver oil, Quest bars, turkey almond cranberry bar, beef habanero cherry bar

10/30 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, chocolate milk, water, Ultrapro Whey, milk, eggs, cod liver oil, Quest bars, chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, ranch dressing, cheddar

10/31 - coffee, milk, chocolate milk, M&M's, water, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal Permaswole, Cannibal Ferox, Quest bar, beer, pizza, Kit Kats

11/1 - coffee, milk, M&M's, Coke Zero, water, double cheeseburger, fries, chicken strips - USMC BDay Ball food/beer

11/2 - coffee, milk, chocolate milk, Coke Zero, M&Ms, triple bacon cheeseburger, water, B-Day Party/not pictured - chicken curry, bread, ice cream cake - yogurt drink

Halloween/the USMC ball & a friend's birthday [and my utter lack of discipline] turned cheat day into cheat weekend.  Back on the horse/onwards.

LIFT-RUN-BANG: Thoughts about life, crap, training, and stuff: "The other day I had to make a trip into Whore Foods, aka, Whole Foods.  Why is it that for some reason I still expect to walk in there and see a bunch of people who lift and are in shape, but instead it's always filled with fat hippies? And how do these people afford all the shit in there?  I see grocery carts filled up and can only think "how the hell do you pay for that week in and week out?  And why do you care about organic and shit when it's very apparent that you have no care of what kind of shape you are in?"  This is mesmerizing to me. While there, I found some organic protein powder.  By a brand called "Warrior."  On the label it had words like "hard-core" and "raw".  It also had "vegan" on there too.  All of those words don't go together.  I am absolutely positive that if the Vikings knew what Vegans were they would have invaded those areas without weapons and just beat them all to death with their hands for the pleasure of it. "

Experts: Eat More Fat - Business Insider: "For more than half a century, the conventional wisdom among nutritionists and public health officials was that fat is dietary enemy No. 1 — the leading cause of obesity and heart disease. It appears the wisdom was off. And not just off. Almost entirely backward. According to a new study from the National Institutes of Health, a diet that reduces carbohydrates in favor of fat — including the saturated fat in meat and butter — improves nearly every health measurement, from reducing our waistlines to keeping our arteries clear, more than the low-fat diets that have been recommended for generations...

Lead researcher Lydia Bazanno, of the Tulane University School of Public Health, pitted this high-fat, low-carb diet against a fat-restricted regimen prescribed by the National Cholesterol Education Program. "We told both groups to get carbs from green, leafy vegetables, because those are high in nutrients and fiber to keep you sated," Bazanno says. "We also told everyone to stay away from trans fats." The fat-restricted group continued to eat carbs, including bread and cereals, while keeping saturated fat — common in animal products — below 7 percent of total calories. By contrast, the high-fat group cut carbs in half and did not avoid butter, meat, and cheese. Most important, both groups ate as much as they wanted — no calorie counting, no going hungry.

One year later, the high-fat, low-carb group had lost three times as much weight — 12 pounds compared with four — and that weight loss came from body fat, while the low-fat group lost muscle. Even more persuasive were the results of blood tests meant to measure the risk of heart disease and diabetes. The high-fat group, despite eating nearly twice as much saturated fat, still saw greater improvements in LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides."



Monday, October 27, 2014

Food Log.


10/20 - coffee, milk, water, chocolate milk, Cannibal Inferno, Milk&Egg protein, eggs, chicken, mayo, Cod Liver Oil, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, kale, cream cheese

10/21 - coffee, cream, milk, water, Cannibal Inferno, chocolate milk, eggs, peanut butter, tomatoes, avocado, parmesan, Cod Liver Oil, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar

10/22 - coffee, cream, water, Cannibal Inferno, milk, eggs, chocolate milk, peanut butter, cod liver oil, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, chicken, potato, sour cream, butter, cheddar

10/23 - coffee, cream, Cannibal Inferno, Spike, water, chocolate milk, eggs, peanut butter, milk, cod liver oil, hamburger

10/24 - coffee, cream, Cannibal Inferno, water, chocolate milk, eggs, milk, peanut butter, cod liver oil, hamburger, cheddar, mayo

10/25 - coffee, cream, cod liver oil, peanut butter, water, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, beer, bison bacon cranberry bar, beef habanero cherry bar, turkey almond cranberry bar - dinner party/free/cheat/no pics/much food/much wine/cafe mocha

10/26 - coffee, milk, water, bison bacon cranberry bar, beer, - dinner party/free/cheat/no pics/much Pakistani food


Sunday, October 19, 2014

Food Log - "Don't let the lard get out of control for mass gains. After you get so fat, your body just becomes very good at getting FATTER."



10/13 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal DaVinci, milk, eggs, Milk&Egg protein, Cod Liver Oil, roast chicken, roast chicken stew [chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, stock]

10/14 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal DaVinci, milk, eggs, Milk&Egg protein, Cod Liver Oil, chocolate milk, roast chicken stew [chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, stock]

10/15 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal DaVinci, milk, eggs, Milk&Egg protein, Cod Liver Oil, roast chicken stew [chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, stock], buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, Coke Zero

10/16 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, milk, eggs, Milk&Egg protein, Cod Liver Oil, buffalo & Cranberry Warrior bar

10/17 - coffee, cream, water, milk, buffalo & Cranberry Warrior bar,  milk, eggs, Milk&Egg protein, Cod Liver Oil

10/18 - coffee, cream, chocolate milk, water - Lunch Buffet/Much Food/Wow Alcohol/So Pictures - donuts, milk

10/19 - coffee, cream, chocolate milk, eggs, pancakes, butter, syrup, hash browns, milk, oatmeal, bacon, cappucino, banana milk, cookies, Coke Zero


LIFT-RUN-BANG: Getting Jacked - Part 3 - The Lift-Run-Bang diet: "The only benefit of getting fatter in terms of lifting is to improve leverages for a lift.  That's it.  Period.  And if you aren't competing then who the fuck are you getting fat for?  Youtube?  Mom?  Who?  Chics don't care what you lift.  Your non-lifting buddy really doesn't give that much of a shit believe it or not.  You hitting crab poses in your catshit ridden basement after you benched 3 plates for the first time because you larded up is disgraceful.   Smash yourself in the junk with a Cricket bat. 

...if you are a natural guy then doing the bulk/diet thing really isn't going to work for you like it does for guys using "supplements".  I've written about this before and it's just a fact of training life.  When a guy can use something that will hold on to lean mass even on a starvation diet, he has an edge a natural guy does not have. This is why most natural bodybuilders do not do the crazy offseason bulk thing, where guys using do.  Because the natural guys know it would take too damn long to diet down and get in shape, and the fact is they would eat through hard earned muscle after dieting that long. I have talked about this MANY times, and notables such as Shelby Starnes and Lyle McDonald have talked and written about it at length.  Don't let the lard get out of control for mass gains.  After you get so fat, your body just becomes very good at getting FATTER.  And then you wake up one day and someone responds to your bragging of 3 plate benching in catshit basement with "You lift weights?"   You need to put shit back into perspective. 

If you don't compete, but want to look jacked then getting rid of worthless fat is pretty much a given.  This is not about getting into 4-5% bodyfat range because I don't really see a big need for that either, unless you're a competitive bodybuilder. We're talking 8-10% here.  That's lean and athletic looking.  And the fact is, getting leaner will actually give you the appearance of being bigger, your body will function better.  But aside from that, when you think of guys that are mega yoked, I promise you they are pretty much always lean."


"...lastly, salad.  No."

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Food Log - "You have to choose."

 [Picasa not working in Linux at all anymore, so no decent collages until I figure a workaround.  Screenshots it is.  Technology.  Bah.]

10/6 - coffee, cream, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, water, milk, Milk & Egg protein, eggs, stevia, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, Cannibal DaVinci, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar

10/7 - coffee, cream, Cannibal DaVinci, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Animal Pump, water, Milk & Egg protein, eggs, milk, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, steak, chicken, parmesan, onions, potatoes, mayo

10/8 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, Animal Pump, Cannibal DaVinci, water, Milk&Egg protein, eggs, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, chocolate milk, buffalo & cranberry Warrior Bar, hamburger, mayo, ketchup, wasabi, cheddar, bacon

10/9 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, Animal Pump, Cannibal DaVinci, water, Milk&Egg protein, eggs, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, chocolate milk, chicken wings, ranch dressing

10/10 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, Animal Pump, Cannibal DaVinci, water, Milk&Egg protein, eggs, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, chocolate milk, free/cheat/dinner out a  French place - foie gras, assorted appetizers, steak w/bearnaise sauce, beer, wine, Irish coffee, assorted desserts

10/11 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal Dainci, water, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, hamburger, mayo, wasabi, cheddar

10/12 - coffee, milk, Cannibal DaVinci, Cannibal Inferno, water, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, hamburger, mayo, wasabi, cheddar

Funny.  True.  Why are you so goddamn fat? | judgybitch: "Some people just are.  No question.  Fat babies, fat toddlers, fat kids, fat teenagers, fat adults – it’s just one continuum of being fat.  It’s just how they were made.  But one only has to flip through historical photographs to see that being fat was an anomaly in the past.  Most people, historically, were quite slender and fit and not because they were starving.  It’s not until the 70s and 80s that fat explodes.  Suddenly fat people are everywhere!  Not anomalies.  More like average. Why is this?  

I am not fat.  I have three children and I gained a shit ton of weight with each pregnancy but I also lost it, too.  And no, it didn’t just fall off with breastfeeding and chasing the kids.  It came off because I watched what I ate and got some exercise.  Right now I weigh 4 pounds more than I did as a college freshman.  After 12 years of marriage, I still fit in my wedding dress.  Easily.  And it’s not because I am a “naturally thin” person.  Naturally thin, my ass. I love food.  I’m an excellent cook and bread and cookie maker and I love to eat.  But I know that I cannot indulge my every culinary whim without turning into a giant ball of lard, which appears to be the case for, oh, PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE!  

I’m thin because I care.  I care about how I look.  I like my clavicles and my cheekbones and my long slim legs.  I like feeling great.  I like being able to run up stairs and dash for the bus and play tag with the kids.  I like admiring glances and the occasional wolf whistle.  It’s nice to be thought of as desirable.  I like my husband’s arms locked around my waist.  I like being able to walk into a store and find something that fits.  Usually on sale, too because the smaller sizes aren’t in much demand any more. I care about all those things, so when a plate of brownies comes by, I can say no and not feel tortured.  

I don’t like the saying “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” because FUCKING CHEESECAKE!  Lots of things taste better than skinny feels, but that doesn’t mean skinny feels bad.  You have to choose.  On the whole, I prefer to be thin than eat whatever the hell I want.  And I have the self-control to do so. 

Fat people who like being fat clearly have no problems and should carry on being who they are while giving a resounding fuck you to the haters.  But fat people who don’t like being fat confuse me.  What are they lacking?  Self-control?  Do they just not care enough?  It’s not knowledge.  Any clueless moron knows that an apple is going to be a more sensible snack than an entire bag of chips, but they eat the chips anyway.  Why is this?"

Monday, October 06, 2014

Food Log.


9/29 - coffee, cream, Animal Pump, ON 100% Whey, water, milk, chocolate milk, steak, chicken, cheddar, sour cream, tomatoes

9/30 - coffee, cream, Animal Pump, water, chocolate milk, ON 100% Whey, milk, tomato/spinach/mushroom egg bake, bacon, DigesTech, Cod Liver Oil

10/1 - coffee, cream, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, water, milk, ON 100% Whey, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, Cannibal DaVinci, tomato/spinach/mushroom egg bake, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar

10/2 -  coffee, cream, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal DaVinci, water, chocolate milk, eggs, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, milk, cocoa powder, stevia, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, steak, fish

10/3 - coffee, cream, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal DaVinci, water, chocolate milk, eggs, DigesTech, Betaine HCL, Cod Liver Oil, milk, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar

10/4 - coffee, chocolate milk, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal DaVinci, water, cheat/free - beer, doughnuts, fried chicken, steak & cheese sub, white russian

10/5 - coffee, milk, Coke Zero, buffalo & cranberry Warrior bar, steak, mushrooms, zucchini, asparagus, stevia

Monday, September 29, 2014

Food Log - "...there's a 100% chance you'll care later."


9/22 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, eggs, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, steak, tomatoes, mayo

9/23 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, eggs, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, steak, zucchini 'noodles' w/cream sauce [cooking cream, parmesan, salt, pepper, mushrooms]

9/24 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, eggs, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, Coke Zero, tomatoes, mayo, cheddar, yogurt

9/25 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Onnit TPC, milk, camembert, steak, chicken, tomato/mushroom sauce, parmesan, potato w/butter & sour cream, pork patties

9/26 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, milk, chocolate milk, Onnit TPC, steak, Coke Zero

9/27- coffee, cream, water, milk - free/cheat: M&M's, beer, Triscuits, sour cream, KitKats, [restaurant food/not pictured] - Watermelon & ground salmon with crispy shallots, roasted coconut & betel leaves, Crispy skin free range duck (Half a duck), rubbed with northern Thai ‘makhwaen’ pepper, drizzled with fresh som jiid & star anise sauce, Tamarind and caramel twice cooked-kurobuta pork belly

9/28 - coffee, cream, milk, steak, tomatoes, mayo, ON 100% Whey, yogurt

The Three E’s: Exercise, Eat and Eliminate | Dan John: "Honestly, seriously, you don’t know what to do about food? Here is an idea: Eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid’s cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods whenever your favorite show is not on when you want it on, ease up on the snacking and— don’t act like you don’t know this— eat vegetables and fruits more. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up."



Great graphic.  Burn Fat Not Sugar: About 


That's it.  Eat animal protein [meat, eggs, dairy], vegetables, nuts.  If you're body composition is relatively good, throw in some fruit and the occasional tuber.  Anything else, you can survive on, but not thrive on.



Quick, easy recipe.  Pic above somewhere... chicken thigh, not breast and no blanched greens [on mine, but made for the Mrs.]

Monday, September 22, 2014

Food Log.


9/15 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, eggs, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, Cannibal Alpha, Fish Oil, steak, kale, butter, cream cheese

9/16 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, eggs, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, Fish Oil, bacon

9/17 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, eggs, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, Fish Oil, bacon

9/18 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, beef jerky, chicken, spinach, cream cheese, butter

9/19 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, peanut butter, Onnit TPC, milk -- free/cheat: beer, pizza, Reese's PB cups, peanut butter, Coke Zero

9/20 - coffee, cream, water, jerky, pulled pork & bbq sauce, steak fajita strips w/onions, salsa, cheese, sour cream

9/21 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, tomatoes, avocado, chocolate milk, yogurt, peanut butter, ON 100% Whey, hamburger, tomatoes, salad greens, camembert, ranch dressing

That makes jerky my new favorite fruit.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

[Return of the] Food Log.


The next training block [11 weeks until Thanksgiving - and then + the 3-4 weeks after that till Xmas - & starting from last Monday, Sep 8th] emphasis on fat loss, with secondary strength and tertiary hypertrophy goals.  Stopped doing food log posts in the summer, as it was feeling a little OCD & counterproductive, plus a month-long out of town visitor/hosting/gluttony & inebriation-fest... but back at it now.  Need a little OCD to dial the nutrition back in after the pause.  Playing with low'ish carbs with some CKD/carb refeed 1x/week & ensuring adequate protein intake - 1g/lb bodyweight.  

9/8 - water, Helios, coffee, cream, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal Alpha, ON 100% Whey, Onnit TPC, Fish Oil, butter, steak, eggs

9/9 - water, Helios, coffee, cream, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal Alpha, ON 100% Whey, Onnit TPC, Fish Oil, hamburger, tomatoes, sour cream, cheddar, parmesan

9/10 - coffee, cream, water, Onnit TPC, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, Cannibal Alpha, ON 100% Whey,  Helios, Fish Oil, peanut butter, hamburger, cheddar

9/11 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, peanut butter, Cannibal Alpha, Fish Oil, Onnit TPC, butter, pork, chicken

9/12 - coffee, cream, water, Animal Pump, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, Helios, peanut butter, Cannibal Alpha, Fish Oil, Onnit TPC, butter, steak, rice, kimchi

9/13 - coffee, cream, water, Cannibal Inferno, water, free/cheat day - Ippudo tonkotsu ramen, pork bun, karaage, spicy shrimp mayo, Asahi beer, chocolate bar, chocolate milk, peanut butter, Reeses PB cups

9/14 - coffee, cream, water, ON 100% Whey, Helios, peanut butter, beef, pork, chicken

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Food Log-ish.

Haven't been doing food logs in a bit because I was overseas for a couple weeks and coming back taking pictures of my meals was beginning to feel a little neurotic.  At this point, and it may change if I find I blow up to 300lbs not tracking it as closely, I know what I should be eating for optimal health & appearance.  Fairly simple, really, despite my tendency to over research everything.

Eat:  Animal Protein [meat, eggs, fish, fowl, dairy], Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts & Seeds, Tubers/Root Vegetables
Avoid:  Sugar, Grains & Processed Vegetable Oils
Carb restriction & cycling for optimal fat loss/body composition.  6 days on/1 day off.
Supplements: pre-workout, multivitamin pack w/fish oil & protein powder

So, basically, Primal/Paleo/Ancestral Health Diet-ish.  Some good summaries below, some lengthier than others, much more info at the links, if so inclined.

What’s The Paleo Diet? | Award-Winning Paleo Recipes | Nom Nom Paleo: "The Paleo tent is big enough to fit a host of different approaches, but the core tenets of ancestral eating remain the same: Eat whole, unprocessed, nutrient-dense, nourishing foods. Prioritize grass fed and pastured meats and eggs, wild-caught seafood, and vegetables. Enjoy fruit, nuts, and seeds in moderation. Avoid foods that will harm us by causing systemic inflammation, wrecking our guts, or derailing our natural metabolic processes. Abstain from toxic, pro-inflammatory foods like gluten-containing grains, legumes, sugar, and the laboratory-concocted Frankenfoods found in the middle aisles of your neighborhood supermarket."


Archevore - Archevore Diet: "The Archevore Diet - A pastoral whole foods diet that can improve your health by more closely emulating the evolutionary metabolic milieu (EM2) and avoiding the hazards of industrial foodways. This diet is a practical framework using whole foods easily available in the 21st century. It is designed to be as universal as possible. The average person who adopts it in preference to the standard american diet should be healthier in every respect, and will usually settle at a more optimal body composition spontaneously.  The diet minimizes putative neolithic agents of disease (NADs) and ensures adequate micronutrition. The diet is designed to be healthy and sustainable as long as you are alive and to offer plenty of satisfaction, while minimizing food reward effects that lead to overeating. Historically, many find this diet results in spontaneous reduction in caloric intake and in health-improving fat loss, with no measuring, weighing or special supplements. I eat this way myself, of course.There is no counting, measuring, or weighing. Calories count, but why bother counting?

 1. Get plenty of sleep and deal with any non- food addictions...

2. Eliminate sugar and all caloric drinks...

3. Eliminate gluten grains and wheat flour.  No cake, cookies or pastries. No bread or pasta, whole grain or otherwise.   This rule and rule #2 pretty much eliminate anything that comes in a box.  White rice and whole meal corn products are reasonable sources of starch if tolerated, but not as nutritious as plant storage organs (root vegetables).    

4. Eliminate seed oils - grain and seed derived oils (cooking oils) Eat or fry with with ghee, pastured butter, animal fats, or coconut oil. Avoid temperate plant oils like corn, soy, canola, flax, walnut, etc...

 6. Whole foods from animals. Eat them for the protein, the micronutrients and the fuel. Favor grass-fed ruminants like beef and lamb for your red meat. These meats have excellent n-6/n-3 ratios and their saturated and monounsaturated fats are a great fuel source...

7. Both animal fats and starchy plant organs are time-tested fuel sources for humans. Animal fats are an excellent dietary fuel and come with lots of fat soluble vitamins. It can work very well to simply replace your sugar and wheat calories with animal fats. If you are not diabetic and you prefer it, you can eat more starch and less animal fat. A low carb diet can rely more on ruminant fat and pastured butter. Plant storage organs like potatoes and sweet potatoes are nutrient laden and well tolerated by most people. Bananas and plantains are convenient starchy fruits. The soluble fiber in all these starchy foods is very likely beneficial, unlike the insoluble fiber in bran.  If you are not diabetic, there is no reason whatsoever to avoid either animal fats or starches in whole food form.

8. Make sure you are Vitamin D replete. Get daily midday sun in season or consider supplementation if you never get outside.

 9. Vegetables and fruits...

10. Get proper exercise - both resistance and "aerobic" exercise have benefits, including mental. Think hormesis again- the recovery periods are where you get the benefit. Lift weights every day or run marathons for "fun", but not for your health.

 11. You won't get too much fructose eating reasonable quantities of fruit, but don't make it your staple...

No counting, measuring or weighing is required, nor is it encouraged. I am agnostic on macronutrient ratios outside of very broad parameters. Archevore eaters typically range from 5-35% carbohydrate, from 10-30% protein and from 50 to 80% fat (mostly from animals) but wider ranges are entirely possible if you are not dieting and you are meticulous about the quality of your animal food sources. If you are trying to lose weight, really minimizing fructose and eating 50-70g a day of carbohydrate as starch is recommended. Skipping breakfast or at least no carbs for breakfast can be very helpful. If you are at your desired weight and healthy,  20% of calories as carbs is plenty for most very active people."

And for info on how the modern US diet got amazingly off-track, here's an excerpt of a review of Denise Minger's new book "Death by Food Pyramid" - which definitely is going to get picked up and added to the ever increasing queue of books to read - which'll give you some indication of how bad science and poor political policy fucked us.

Fat Head » Review: Death by Food Pyramid: "Early in the book, Minger recounts the experience of Luise Light, who was appointed to the position of Director of Dietary Guidance and Nutrition Education Research in the late 1970s – meaning she was officially put in charge of replacing the old “Basic Four” government dietary guidelines with something new and improved.  In one of the book’s many “you’ve got to be @#$%ing kidding me!” moments, we learn that Light did, in fact, develop recommendations based on actual science: Unlike previous food guides, Light’s version cracked down ruthlessly on empty calories and health-depleting junk food.  The new guide’s base was a safari through the produce department – five to nine servings of fresh fruits and vegetables each day.  “Protein foods” like meats, eggs, nuts and beans came in at five to seven ounces daily; for dairy, two to three servings were advised. Light’s guidelines weren’t based on fat-phobia and didn’t promote hearthealthywholegrains as health food...

The guide kept sugar well below 10 percent of total calories and strictly limited refined carbohydrates, with white-flour products like crackers, bagels, and bread rolls shoved into the guide’s no-bueno zone alongside candy and junk food.  And the kicker:  grains were pruned down to a maximum of two to three servings per day, always in whole form. … Satisfied that their recommendations were scientifically sound and economically feasible, Light’s team shipped the new food guide off to the Secretary of Agriculture’s office for review.  And that’s when the trouble began. Well, I guess trouble is what you get when you send the Secretary of Monsanto … er, excuse me, the Secretary of Agriculture a document suggesting people limit their grain consumption.  When Light received the (ahem) edited version of her guidelines back from the USDA, they were a grain-promoting perversion of what she’d originally submitted.  Horrified, Light explained that “no one needs that much bread and cereal in a day unless they are longshoremen or football players” and warned that the six-to-eleven servings of grain per day recommended by the USDA could spark epidemics of obesity and diabetes. And the rest is history...

Other than the desire to sell more corn and wheat, why would the USDA ignore its own nutrition guru and promote a diet based on grains?  The answer shouldn’t have surprised me, and yet it did: The only justification she’d been given was that the changes would help curb the cost of the food stamp program:  fruits and vegetables were expensive, the head of Light’s division explained – and from a nutritional standpoint, the USDA considered them somewhat interchangeable with grains.  Emphasizing the latter in the American diet would help food assistance programs stay within budget. How’s that for typical government logic?  We have a government-subsidized food stamp program, but paying for foods that are actually good for people is too expensive, so we’ll just declare cheap grains to be a health food in our new guidelines.  Later, of course, we’ll impose those guidelines on schools and other government facilities.  Let’s make everyone eat survival food for poor people. Yes, I know:  you really want to bang your head on your desk right now … and we’re only up to page 24 in the book...

In a later chapter, Minger examines three of the popular diets that have proven their power to help people overcome health problems – whole food plant-based, Mediterranean, and paleo/primal – and highlights their similarities.  All include whole, unprocessed foods such as tubers, vegetables and low-glycemic fruits.  All exclude sugar, refined grains and processed vegetable oils.  In other words, all three return us to something closer to our ancestral diets – at least if our starting point is the Standard American Diet."
Eat Bacon.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Food Log - "Your Fat Is Unequivocally Your Fault."


3/24 - coffee, cream, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, eggs, chocolate milk, Animal Flex, Monster Multi, water, ground beef, ground pork, salsa + avocado, iced tea, Universal ZMA

3/25 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, Cannibal Inferno, ON 100% Whey, chocolate milk, Animal Flex, Monster Multi, iced tea, steak, chicken, potatoes, garlic, onions, avocado, curry powder + coconut milk, Universal ZMA, Quest Bar

3/26 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, Cannibal Inferno, ON Platinum Hydrowhey, ON 100% Whey, chocolate milk, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, ground beef, ground pork, cheese, tomato, avocado, Universal ZMA

3/27 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, 1.M.R., ON 100% Whey, chocolate milk, hamburger, bacon, guacamole [avocado, tomato, onion, garlic], Universal ZMA

3/28 - coffee, cream, water, eggs, ON 100% Whey, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, mayo, bacon, hamburger, tomato, butter, cream cheese, kale, spinach

3/29 - coffee, milk, water, double cheeseburger, McNuggets, fries, bbq sauce, Coke Zero, bacon, milk, chocolate, ON 100% Whey, beer & lamb chops [not pictured]

3/30 - coffee, milk, ON 100% Whey, water, eggs, iced tea, steak, tomato, mayo, Universal ZMA

ChAoS & PAIN: Your Fat Is Unequivocally Your Fault:
 "The most common correlation mentioned between fatness and anything else is poverty.   Fat people and leftists love to claim that obesity is the result of poverty, and use a variety of studies to illustrate the correlation. If you're thinking to yourself that this makes no sense, you're right, but they confuse correlation for causation because they're stupid and lazy, and they seem to think that all poor people are so fucking dumb they don't know what food is bad for them and what's not.

'It’s no secret that there’s a correlation between poverty and obesity. We’re living in the supposedly richest nation in the world (thanks to a glorious legacy of slavery and property theft), where the majority of the people are either poor, or hopelessly debt-riddled and overtaxed middle class. The majority of Americans don’t have enough money relative to the quality of life we’re expect to maintain for our families, and at best rely on consumer debt to survive, and at worst criminal activities that may land us in jail. Many of us live or work in areas where we don’t have access to affordable healthy food. We may not have the time or money or energy or desire to work out or cook healthy meals at home when they’re already working 2 or more jobs to barely get by. Most of us don’t have adequate healthcare.  Most of us don’t have gyms in our office buildings (my building even discourages us from using the stairs), can’t afford or don’t have access to a public gym, and may not live in areas where it’s safe  to go jogging at night, or for our children to get exercise by playing outside. We’re encouraged to self-medicate our exhaustion and misery with booze, cigarettes, television, video games, internet, and processed food that is literally chemically engineered the hit the pleasure centers of our brains like narcotic drugs, driving the urge to eat more (a hence, buy more). This narcotic food is cheap, even cheaper if you go for the 64 oz. Big Gulp, the King Size candy bar, the supersize fast food “value meal.” You can buy this “food” almost anywhere, and it’s a quick makes you feel good when you’re tired or cranky, at least temporarily. And it’s no big surprise that this lifestyle often leads to obesity, diabetes, and other issues.'(James)

To summarize: fat people are fat because rich, thin, blood-thirsty capitalists force them to live beyond their means and internalize the belief that they can afford anything and everything.  Thus, having overspent on trinkets, there's no money left for food, so the overworked and under-appreciated proles are forced to feed their families processed foods because they're too lazy to cook real food.  Then, they're not given free gym memberships or rides to the gym by the aforementioned blood-thirsty capitalists, replete with top hats and monocles, and they must live with their big-screen tvs and smart phones in undesirable areas with people in the same situation but are whom apparently dangerous.  Finally, they're forced to apply a chemical salve to their wounded, flabby psyches with junk food, nicotine, and alcohol to escape from the reality in which they live, and those medications are the only things that the rich provide them, as a soma for the Betas, Deltas, Epsilons, and Gammas of our cruel world.

Only the fattest simpletons on Earth could possibly buy this ridiculous tripe.  The fat broad who penned that ridiculously intellectually disingenuous bullshit has cast herself as nothing more than an easily led herd animal manipulated into a lifestyle she could have easily avoided if she didn't suck, and then managed to paint her fellow cattle as dangerous miscreants and criminals.  Had this genius ever read Rhetoric, she might have developed the ability to formulate a cogent argument, but that would again require she not be a lazy piece of shit.  She'd also know, were she not so fucking disgracefully slothful, that the correlation she mentioned between poverty and obesity only exists in the last decade of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century in the United States.  This, of course, brings me back to my premise- our problem is that people are hideously, shockingly, and inexcusably fucking stupid and lazy.  The fattie above blames everything on capitalism and income inequality, but fails to take into account that the United States of of the early 20th Century had nearly as much income inequality, yet they were far leaner.

The immigrants coming across the ocean weren't whining about how fat they were, simply because they were too busy working hard and making their own fucking food to get fat, in spite of the fact that they were hard-drinking, chain-smoking, street fighting motherfuckers who likely never once thought about their waistline because their lifestyles kept them from getting fat.  Nor does this correlation exist outside of the United States, because the correlation is nothing more than the root of a stupid fucking argument that's the brainchild of [the] intellectually lazy...

Oddly, I have no problem with people being fat, necessarily, if that's what they want to be... What I cannot abide, however, is the intellectual disingenuousness that begins with people whining about the alleged discrimination under which they supposedly suffer for a condition they themselves embraced and actively cultivated, only to turn and state that they're victims of a mysterious and nebulous third party.  It's the same bullshit that resulted in 10 Minute abs and the Thighmaster - sloth.  If they love eating and fucking and want to lay around all day eating cheesecake, awesome, but keep your fucking mouth shut about discrimination- they chose a lifestyle that led to their current state."




Sunday, March 23, 2014

Food Log - "Keep it positive, and keep it aggressive. You will prevail."


3/18 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, water, Monster Milk/Mass, eggs, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, hamburger, cheddar cheese, salad greens, mayo, Universal ZMA

3/19 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, water, eggs, coconut oil, unsweetened cocoa powder, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, hamburger, wasabi mayo, chicken/cheese/broccoli soup [w/onions & garlic]

3/20 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, water, eggs, chocolate milk, bacon, peanut butter

3/21 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, water, eggs, chocolate milk, Monster Multi, Animal Flex, salad greens, tomato, hamburger, bacon, cheese, Universal ZMA

3/22 - coffee, milk, Cannibal Inferno, water, ON 100% Whey, bacon wrapped cheese sausage, triple bacon cheeseburger, fries, chicken tenders, mayo/ketchup, Coke Zero, cookies

3/23 - coffee, milk, water, hamburger, tomato, cheese, eggs, steak, Universal ZMA

"Dieting keeps you focused on training, and vice versa.  The harder you diet, the harder you'll train.  The obverse is definitely not true.  If you eat sloppily, you will not care as much when you hit the gym, because you've already made a shitload of concessions about your training (in the fuel selection), so you're retreating from success before you even touch a bar.  If you're entering the gym pissed off and a little hungry from dieting, you'll take out your frustration on the weights, and you'll want to break your fucking ass so that the effort of dieting isn't wasted...

During this period, you are going to have to work harder than ever to stay focused.  It is going to suck.  You're going to need more sleep.  You're going to get pissed off at little shit, because you're filled to the fucking brim with frustration at your perceived lack of progress.  People around you are going to start making suggestions about making concessions, about how what you're doing is unnatural and possibly unhealthy, and they're going to reinforce your doubts and that shitty little voice in the back of your head.  It is at this point that you need to remember that you're better than every single fucking person around you.  You're a fucking demi-god- you have transcended the human condition and become something better, and you're on your way to becoming a fucking godhead.  If, that is, you can stay the course.

Keep it positive, and keep it aggressive.  You will prevail.

Should you find yourself failing, it's because you lack the resolve to succeed.  At that point, you have two choices- be a strong person or a weak person.  There's no in-between.  If you fail at dieting, you're fucking weak.  There is no other reason- it's not your thyroid, or your genetics, or the fact that you didn’t use this or that drug- it’s because you’re fucking weak.  Should you choose to be so, that’s fine.  Frankly, I could care less if most people just walked themselves off a fucking cliff, and their mental state could not possibly matter less to me.  It should, however, matter a great deal to you.  Thus, you should succeed at your diet to make yourself a stronger, better person.  You will thank yourself, and the more miserable the experience, the more you’ll appreciate it thereafter. Failure is not an option."

Truth.


"Obesity doesn't make you less intelligent, but it might cloud your cognitive abilities.

In a recent study, conducted by researchers at Georgia Regents University, the blood of obese mice had especially high levels of a chemical called interleukin 1, a substance born from fat cells that can cause inflammation. When the researchers later examined the obese mice brains, they found that interleukin 1 had passed the blood-brain barrier--something that normally should not be possible. The substance had seeped into the hippocampus, an area responsible for memory and learning."

"I was diagnosed with diabetes shortly after the first photo was taken. Fortunately, I didn’t listen to the dietitian who “educated” me about what to eat. While doing research online I found a low carb forum for diabetics, where I learned about the LCHF way of eating. I wasn’t even trying to lose weight, my only thought was to normalize my blood sugar. Losing weight was a very pleasant surprise and the pounds just seemed to melt off without my ever being hungry. My family fully supported me by eating LCHF along with me and we all lost weight!"