Meal Prep

[Dex]

Fellow Huddlers, do any of you meal prep for the week? If so what is your diet like? Do you have any healthy/bodybuilding recipes? This week I'm mixing it up and doing a protein rich Turkey Chili after doing chicken and broccoli for the past two months. I'm losing my sanity. This is what my week looks like.

7am: Oatmeal with coffee no sugar just coconut milk.

10am: Apple

12pm: Turkey Chili, peapods and blueberries.

330pm: Apple with Peanut Butter.

430pm - 630pm: Gym (Gatorade/Preworkout on way to gym & BCAAs/Creatine shake halfway through workout)

645pm: Protein Shake

730pm: Turkey Chili with some kind of veggie.

 

Usually asleep by 9pm.

Curious to see @Darth Biscuit

[Dex]

I should also mention I'm cutting for the summer right now. Daily caloric intake is around 1800-2000. I also drink about 1.5 to 2 gallons of water a day.

[Darth Biscuit]

That is utterly the weakest part of my life.  My eating isn't awful but isn't what it should be.

My wife is doing fantastic with this kind of stuff...  and I am doing better, but it definitely needs to improve.  I need to take your list above and do that.

 

Honestly I've been powerlifting pretty hard so I haven't been super concerned with my weight.  I'm staying at around 225 but it wouldn't hurt me to be at 215 and to do that it would be 100% my diet bc I work out plenty hard enough... well, except I would need to increase card... car... whatever the fug that poo is that you do to get your heart rate up.

 

[h0llywood]

3 hours ago, Dex said:

Fellow Huddlers, do any of you meal prep for the week? If so what is your diet like? Do you have any healthy/bodybuilding recipes? This week I'm mixing it up and doing a protein rich Turkey Chili after doing chicken and broccoli for the past two months. I'm losing my sanity. This is what my week looks like.

7am: Oatmeal with coffee no sugar just coconut milk.

10am: Apple

12pm: Turkey Chili, peapods and blueberries.

330pm: Apple with Peanut Butter.

430pm - 630pm: Gym (Gatorade/Preworkout on way to gym & BCAAs/Creatine shake halfway through workout)

645pm: Protein Shake

730pm: Turkey Chili with some kind of veggie.

 

Usually asleep by 9pm.

Curious to see @Darth Biscuit

Get rid of fruit. Replace your apples with 4oz of protein whether in the form of chicken breast, 99% ground turkey, tuna, or white fish (tilapia, cod).

Buy yourself a food scale as it is important to weigh your food. For your main meals eat 8oz of protein and 1 cup of carbs with unlimited vegetables.

For carbs eat steel cut oats, brown rice, jasmine rice, quinoa, yam, sweet potato, red potatoes.

From january 11 to today, i went from a size XL to medium, 36 to 32-33 and lost over 10% of body fat.

 

 

[Jeremy Igo]

Get rid of fruit.
 
 

This is when you should stop reading any diet advice.

[h0llywood]

16 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

 

This is when you should stop reading any diet advice.

 

Fruit has high sugar which is why i stay away from them. He already has plenty of healthy sugar in his carbohydrates. 

As i previously stated, removing sugar from my diet i lost 10% body fat in 6 weeks. 

After he gets where he wants to be he can go back to eating fruit.

Same concept with not eating carrots (high sugar) or lettuce (no nutritional value) for what he's trying to do.

[Jeremy Igo]

Fruit has high sugar which is why i stay away from them. He already has plenty of healthy sugar in his carbohydrates. 

As i previously stated, removing sugar from my diet i lost 10% body fat in 6 weeks. 

After he gets where he wants to be he can go back to eating fruit.

Same concept with not eating carrots (high sugar) or lettuce (no nutritional value) for what he's trying to do.

 

The sugar is fruit comes with the fiber pectin so the glycogen load is negligible.

 

By cutting out fruit you are cutting out tons of vitamins, phytonutrients, and fiber.

 

For instance, apples contain a soluble fiber that actually gets in your blood stream and binds with cholesterol so that it can be expelled later. So apples literally scrub the inside of your arteries.

 

So not eating fruit when you eat meat could be more harmful than anything.

 

You lost weight because you decreased your calorie intake overall. You could easily cut portions sizes by the same amount and keep the fruit in there.

 

[h0llywood]

10 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

 

The sugar is fruit comes with the fiber pectin so the glycogen load is negligible.

 

By cutting out fruit you are cutting out tons of vitamins, phytonutrients, and fiber.

 

For instance, apples contain a soluble fiber that actually gets in your blood stream and binds with cholesterol so that it can be expelled later. So apples literally scrub the inside of your arteries.

 

So not eating fruit when you eat meat could be more harmful than anything.

 

You lost weight because you decreased your calorie intake overall. You could easily cut portions sizes by the same amount and keep the fruit in there.

 

Valid points. 

My cutting and losing weight are two different things, and i'm personally am cutting right now. I suggested that he replace his fruit with other types healthy carbs although I didn't exactly specify which.

Fructose in apples (and fruit in general) does change metabolism which can lead to lipid deposition. 

My suggestions are in the mold of 6-8 week plans instead of a long haul diet. 

[R0CKnR0LLA]

i have several portions of my 3 bean turkey chili in the fridge right now. biggest problem i always have with food prep is finding stuff that keeps well after a few days.

and don't worry about the fruit, it shouldn't be your main source of calories or anything but a couple pieces a day isn't a big deal, it's better than having zero.

[Dex]

Apples give me great short burst energy specifically before the gym. 

[Davidson Deac II]

3 hours ago, h0llywood said:

Fruit has high sugar which is why i stay away from them. He already has plenty of healthy sugar in his carbohydrates. 

As i previously stated, removing sugar from my diet i lost 10% body fat in 6 weeks. 

After he gets where he wants to be he can go back to eating fruit.

Same concept with not eating carrots (high sugar) or lettuce (no nutritional value) for what he's trying to do.

Fruit has to many things we need to avoid it altogether.  My doctor told me just to avoid eating fruit late in the day.  So I eat some in the mornings, where most of sugar will be burned off.  

[Dex]

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[h0llywood]

39 minutes ago, Dex said:

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Man that looks really good.

I've learned to get creative making tortillas and pancakes out of oatmeal that i put in a blender until flour consistency. Last night i made using the flour two bun like cakes,  molded into a patty and cooked ground turkey like a burger and made myself a burger with spinach and mustard. Some cravings come back but you can cheat around them. 

For the turkey do you use liquid aminos?

[Dex]

25 minutes ago, h0llywood said:

Man that looks really good.

I've learned to get creative making tortillas and pancakes out of oatmeal that i put in a blender until flour consistency. Last night i made using the flour two bun like cakes,  molded into a patty and cooked ground turkey like a burger and made myself a burger with spinach and mustard. Some cravings come back but you can cheat around them. 

For the turkey do you use liquid aminos?

I've actually never heard of liquid aminos.