A Sample Of How I’m Eating These Days …

In response to multiple requests from subscribers about how I’m eating, I’ll share with you a couple days of my diet lately …

A while back, I did this post: Some Examples Of What I Typically Eat Every Day — this was a little over a year ago. Back then, I was focusing HEAVILY on eating a lot of saturated fat — a la the Anabolic Diet.

What’s Changed Since Then?

Well, I’ve started to cut out as much fat as I used to eat and there’s a couple reasons for this:

• Fat As Fuel – if your activity levels aren’t as high, then you don’t need to eat as much fat. I’ve recently cut out almost all the cardio I used to do (2-4 days per week). I’ve been focusing on …
• Strength Training + Diet – to get lean instead. Because, frankly, I’m “ambitiously lazy”. I want to get the most results from the least amount of effort–leveraging my time–”doubling my gains” from the same amount of work …
• Cardio? I occasionally do this, when I NEED to get out there and get my heart pumping. Basically, when I want to exert some energy to lift my mood or blow out some energy. I did this yesterday. I did 4 mins of tabata intervals on the bike, rested 5 mins to let the free fatty acids flood my bloodstream, then a quick 10 mins of running on a treadmill at a jog pace to burn up those fatty acids floating around. By 10 mins I was reminded of how much I hate running, then hit the sauna. Worked like a charm, lifted my mood, got me creative again and I went back to finish a solid 3-4 more hours of good work.
• Eating Fat May Not Make You a “Fat Burner” – the idea behind the anabolic diet is that eating a lot of fat, switches your body into a “fat burning” mode. In reality, recent research (as best I can find) has shown that the only thing that switches on the fat burning mode is reduced calories–specifically reduced carbs– so I don’t see the need to eat as much fat as before …

My Goals Now …

Are to achieve less than 10% bodyfat year round while simultaneously taking my lifts in the Squat, Bench and Deadlift to “Elite” status … and I figure my body will put on muscle “as needed” to achieve that goal.

Unfortunately, my love affair with Beer several times per week is severely hamstringing me and holding me back from dropping down below 10% bodyfat for long periods of time. This is something I’m working on

But, the idea is High Protein, relatively high fat, low carbs “cuz carbs are teh gay”

Example Daily Eating …

So I fast, pretty much all day till around 5pm or later (depends on if I’m hitting the gym, then I’ll eat around 7 sometimes). Doesn’t really matter, again, most results for least effort — average time I’d say is between 6-7pm.

I will drink water, coffee (sometimes with low calorie milk substitute, and zero calorie sweeteners, if I’m in the mood), diet sodas some times, and usually I’ll have about 1-2G of Vitamin C, and 1-2 of 3 pills of a multivitamin (the full dose is 3 pills for my current multi–so I break it up over the day).

Other than that, no calories at all, just water, tea, etc …

If it’s a workout day, I train in a fasted state. I don’t worry about “recovery shakes” or protein shakes or any of that anymore, not a big deal …

Here’s yesterday’s (non workout, except for the “odd” cardio I did earlier in the day just to boost my mood, eliminate creative block and get me focused to work more):

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NOTE: I don’t normally eat yogurt, but I just got done with a cycle of anti-biotics (get your mind out of the gutter! I had a sinus infection!) so normally the carbs won’t be that high.

And that’s pretty much a normal meal for me each day. Grass fed beef from U.S. Wellness, make it into a big cheeseburger type bowl with a bunch of shredded cheese, mayo, mustard (no calories), and sriracha (Vietnamese hot sauce).

Things I’ll Be Experimenting With …

I have a feeling I’ll be hungrier on days that I workout, so I might eat more. Probably will up the intake of the ground beef from just one pound to maybe a pound and a half. Last time I did that, it filled me up WAY too much … but … I’ve started to add more volume to my workouts this past week — so I think I’ll be welcoming the extra calories.

That’s pretty much about it! Let me know any questions, or things I forgot to explain in the comments.