Mark Bell's Power Project - MBPP EP. 726 - Habits To Get JACKED without Tracking Part 1

Episode Date: May 5, 2022

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there right now eat legendary food eat legendary.com links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes how did he hit the fucking light pole so easily i over wow you overshot it i'm really i'm really like blinded right here like this the basket is like i need a little bit more of a backboard that makes sense that's my excuse are we recording yeah we are now i'm like scotty pippen over here i'm trying to like drain that shot from the side how do you always do that i don't know but you're trying to tim duncan it by like hitting the backboard that's what you need yeah yeah let's see what and sema does here i'm i'm i'm saving this for our next podcast with mr israel oh anyway mark um uh have you don't look at the youtube comments much do you of what okay for the podcast for the podcast you know i've never seen them before now i see people

are people nice to me they're pretty nice they're pretty nice i want to tell you some a comment that i've been seeing a lot of and i think it's going to make you i mean i know that your perception is my right rage going to come out you're not you never get too happy or too sad but people have been saying you look younger man oh really like there have been a lot i've been seeing a trend of comments being like damn mark's been looking vibrant i wonder it looks younger that's a that's pretty dope man i wonder if that's my growth hormone like i've been loading up on that's good and i shaved my balls too so it's probably like one of those two things yeah what did you use what kind of razor uh like

a mock three just oh shit you went yeah blade yeah how do you do that like a blade razor yeah why not so are you joking dog you need to tell people you're joking not because someone's going to go out and cut their balls it's fine well it works this wouldn't be the first person that i know of yeah wow yeah i can't do you guys have a special nutsack razor yeah i use i use manscaped i mean they don't sponsor it no i use manscape i use manscape because you recommended it but yeah i do it dry i don't know how do you do it like i've been told that you can jump in the shower so dry right i mean you can do it wet but i do it dry if i do it in the shower my balls are a lot more like malleable and it just

it'll they'll get chewed up like a fucking actual lawnmower so i have to go dry your balls have to be like a particular like temperament to be able to fuck with them in the first place otherwise that's not good it can't be like microwave silly putty it's got to be like out the mic not out the fridge silly putty it's got to be a little bit more stiff you can't fuck with it uh after like a cold plunge that's for sure yeah no yo man after cold plunging this morning i go and i shower and my girl's looking at me and i'm like hey stop looking at me this isn't this isn't an accurate depiction stop looking i'm cold you're like brushing your teeth like i'm putting on a towel this universe is so funny because i i got i got out of the

shower out of the cold plunge this morning and i was just about to hop in the shower and i was like let's see what this looks like look in the mirror like oh god i need to get warm fast it's like that does not look that much different than a clit at this point. Small and clit. Yeah, like after a cycle maybe. After the cycle. Great way to start off, guys. I like it.

Great way. Yeah. Not bad. So I look younger, but younger than who? Do I look younger than you? Well, absolutely not. But you look younger. Damn.

Dude, like. That's good. That's good. Yeah, versus years ago, probably because you lost some body fat, but I don't know. You just actually look younger. I feel great. Pretty cool. I feel really good.

Everything's like going along pretty good. Running's going good. Training's going good. You know, I came in the other day and I was pumped to do some squats and I just start moving around and I just go to do like squat with like a plate on my back and something in my back goes, oh, I'm like, well, you gotta be kidding me. And so I must've did probably, I don't know, 10 or 20, like literally like 10 sets. Cause I'm like, this is, this can't be happening.

Like this is not real. But anyway, I just stayed with a plate and kept moving it around. And I went up to two plates and that was fine. But I was like, yeah, I was kind of hoping I wasn't going to go crazy or anything, but it's probably for the better because I probably would have done something stupid that I should have done in the first place. But I was like, is this real? Is this for real? Did I really just kind of tweak my back with the plate? What did it feel like

it's that little like thing that you can't breathe you know that one like it's like in like your like an oblique type of thing like an upper mid back like that rib that weird rib thing and it didn't hurt that bad but I was like there's no reason

that's a sign that's a sign I need to just I need to sit here and suck some cock and well wait until this passes some things never i remember i had like cartilage stuck in my rib like i couldn't breathe i was just like dude i can't like get further than this and so like for like a couple days i'll just like and then finally went to the doctor and like you have to like breathe in deep so we can hear if there's anything like in there or whatever. So I took a deep breath and then just everything just went and it just like unlocked. I'm like, oh, we're all good.

Like, yeah, you probably just had cartilage stuck in your rib. Cartilage stuck in your rib? That's what the doctor said. Yeah, I don't know. Sounds appetizing. Sounds like when you're eating like a buffalo wing. And you got a little extra like skin on it. I hate the people who eat their wings and they don't eat the whole thing.

Eat the cartilage, eat the skin, eat everything. That little white part that's on the bone, eat it. You got to consume the whole goddamn thing. Yeah, and I like the other one, not the drumstick looking one. I like the flat one better. Yeah, the one you got to pull apart yeah yeah is that the wing yeah yeah i think so i don't think that's the actual wing versus i just know that like yeah you get like both if you don't ask for one specifically but if you ask for the

like the drumstick looking one you pay a little bit more and i'm like well that's cool because i like the other one better anyways well how do you eat the wing describe to me how you eat the wing oh well okay i'll i did a demonstration on how you eat the wing. Oh, well, okay. I did a demonstration of how to eat one the other day. Oh, you did? It's like where people push it down. You ever do that? I've seen that. You ever push the thing, you take the wing part and you kind of just push it

on the plate and then you suck the whole thing through? I don't do that. What I usually do is I grab it from the bottom and I put the whole thing in my mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the bone comes out. That's exactly it. That's how you do it from the bottom and I put the whole thing in my mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Bone comes out. That's exactly it.

That's how you do it too. But then I'll go back in and I'll, I'll like, I'll crack it open and get like the insides of it. Cause you ain't leaving that shit behind. That's good shit, man. Yeah. Do you guys get the red sauce all over your face and don't care about it until the end? I'm not a red sauce. I'm not like a red sauce kind of guy.

Is that buffalo sauce? Yeah. Yeah. I, I usually, I go to the last time I've had wings, I go to Fire Wings. You know, this peanut butter flavor. Like a Thai peanut butter kind of thing going on. Yeah. It's so good.

I'm pretty, I'm a basic bitch when it comes to that. So like I'll have lemon pepper, but then I don't dip that into the ranch. Yeah. Cause it just gets too much, too messy. I don't like it. the ranch because it just gets too messy. I don't like it. So I'll inhale the whole thing. And then I'll get the carrot stick and I'll dip that into the ranch. I know, dude.

I'm fucking hashtag keto over here. Balance. Did you, did you, did Borah ever tell you about these wings from Buffalo Wild Wings my brother's so he knows all the shit dude no it's just I think it's just like

the salt and pepper but he's like the macros are amazing and the macros actually are pretty amazing on those wings yeah it's like a salt and vinegar one

salt and vinegar something like that yeah if you look them up it's like wow it's like really you could just go there and eat them

I think they cook them right now I think they cook them in beef tallow too I think no shit I believe so tallow too, I think. No shit. I believe so. That's what he said.

Chicken wings are amazing. There's so many wings. So many. How many chickens are there? Apparently a lot. Yeah, a lot. You just keep slaughtering them and keep- Like Monday Night Football's on and people just, you know, all those bars have the wings

for like five cents or whatever. All you can eat wings. fucking crazy but what type of chicken is it because like if if i go to you know get a chicken like rotisserie chicken like that leg looking thing is way bigger than a than a hot wing these are probably clones right there's probably some shit going on we don't know about oh absolutely the government they're just mass-producing small little chickens. Absolutely. The government's been doing it for a while. Government. Jeff Bezos.

Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg. Wings are one of those things where you can make them, you can make them tasty, and they're not bad for you. They're fucking great. Like they're one of those amazing things that like, you know, you should be able to just enjoy them. And it's not going to take you off your nutrition plan at all. And if you're worried about like stuff being fried or whatever, then you can make them at home. Throw them in an air fryer. Air fry them.

Boom. Air fry. Okay. Yeah. They're delicious. They might not be the same as from Buffalo Wild Wings or from some of the other spots, but they're going to be damn good. They're going to get you like 80% of the way there. That's fucking worth it.

Didn't you make some wings? You just said you made some wings on Smiley's Kitchen. What kind of wings were they? Those were just straight up. Like I think we just put like Parmesan on them or something. We put like garlic and Parmesan on them. And they were incredible uh you know and chicken you know chicken skin and and the thigh and all that stuff like it's actually really good because it's like it doesn't have you know chicken breast for a lot

of people that are exercising already yeah first of all it doesn't taste very good but secondly uh it just doesn't have enough like we need need to have something in. We need to have some sort of macros in there, right? I remember back in the day when I was doing bodybuilding, dieting, and I was eating chicken breast. I was like, I'm healthy. This is good. I was fooling myself. I can't stop thinking about that Dave Chappelle thing you guys sent me. Which one?

With the chicken or the fish. The one in the little pixie? He's like, what are the catfish? guys guys just if you want a good laugh go look at dave chapelle chicken or fish i'm guessing on you just uh dave chapelle pixie skit and it'll come up pixie skit uh that's a good one unbelievable yeah anyway we're talking about some uh we're talking about some how to be jacked, I guess, jacked and tan without tracking your macros. You know, each one of us has kind of a different, a little bit different perspective on things. We have some different things that we've done in the past. We have some different things that we do currently. But the main gist of everything for all three of us is the same. We have similar principles. We try to prioritize protein whenever possible because

protein is something that can be satiating, which means kind of help fill you up. And we're big believers that if you're going to be exercising and training, it would be a good idea to try to get yourself towards one gram of protein per pound of body weight. In some cases, for people that are heavier, maybe it's one pound per gram of like lean body weight. And you can make like an estimate, like probably not a lot of reasons for people that may be 400 pounds to have 400 grams of protein. You might want to just have like 300 or 250, like probably not a lot of reasons for most people to go over like a 250 amount, I would just assume. But anyway uh we're going to kind of dive

into some of that so you guys can get yourselves in shape because the summer is coming up soon yeah and everyone wants to get shredded for summer i never really i don't know i'm not a summer guy but i get when are you going to get in shape because people are tired because that's that's why i stopped reading the comments because i was like they keep making fun of my boy in sema and it's like man some people just like to live a little chubbed out it's okay i don't know man it's it's like my my grandma tells me that my mom tells me everyone in my life tells me i'm out of shape so i keep trying but i've never it's never enough for people um so i i'll just it would help your jujitsu it would help my jujitsu you can't breathe yeah yeah right i think if i if i managed to get myself down to maybe 200, that would probably be.

I'm thinking like 160. 160? About 160. You'd look great. That's a good 85 pounds. I mean, I could do it. I think you could do it. You might have to track your macros, though.

You're just not ready to commit. You have to want it. You have to commit. I mean, shit, this sleeping for two hours a night has been kind of starting to catch up. And that was really rude of you to not help Andrew with the crank when we had Tom Segura here because that would have been a great recorded episode, but Andrew couldn't hit the record button because we didn't have enough power. Well, he didn't even call me back here to come help with the crank.

Oh, he said that he did. Did you? Well, the funny thing is, not only that, but I also had no idea that it was actually going on. So I don't know how I couldn't turn the crank if I wasn't even notified to start the crank itself. So then the person at fault for all of this. Chris Bell? It's probably my brother. Probably your brother.

Probably your brother. He's probably at fault. What were we saying? We were talking. Oh, no. Probably your brother. He's probably at fault. What were we saying?

We were talking. Okay. So we were pretty much when you are starting to, oh yeah, protein. So yeah, a gram per pound is definitely good. But the way I look at protein is kind of like I just, I eat it till I'm full. So in meals, when we talk about prioritizing protein, this doesn't mean that we don't eat carbs. It doesn't mean that we don't eat fats. It just means that the protein is the main part of the meal because the thing about us here is that we can eat a lot. I can eat a lot of food. You can eat a lot of food. So we're trying to figure out different strategies to be able to

feel full and satiated in our meals. And that's why whenever I eat, whenever I cook food, like I'll eat the protein first so that I don't overeat on pretty much anything else. And for me, protein usually comes in the form of red meat, which has a decent amount of fat in it. And I don't avoid carbohydrates, but I just don't have as much as I used to. Now for also being satiated, some people, if they want to have more carbohydrates and whole foods, you can add more fiber into the food that you eat through sweet potatoes. Potatoes have quite a bit of fiber. If you'd like to add in vegetables, you can because it'll take up space. Some people love-

Pussy. It's true. Eating vegetables. Come on. It's true, though. Be a grown-ass man. Fiber does make you full. You just – you know, you got to be creative in how you make maybe Brussels sprouts taste pretty good.

I like vegetables, for the record. I eat them. There you go. You know what I mean? Carrots, all those types of things. They'll allow you to feel fuller in the meals you eat so that, like, you don't end up overeating. So a lot of the things and a lot of the ways we eat are ways in which we'll get enough protein but so that we can actually feel good and we don't need to go out or binge on food to get our fill. Andrew, where the fuck do we start with somebody who maybe has no clue on where to start?

What do you think would be a good way for someone – they just started lifting maybe and I think a lot of us can be attracted to the lifting side of things we see a lot of instagram we see people that are jacked uh guy you know action hero type people like they're jacked and so it's kind of all around us so we have some influence to go in the gym and do some resistance training like we're kind of on board with that but a lot of people don't really adhere to the nutrition side until later. Where do you think maybe would be just maybe number one place to kind of start to figure some of this out? Yeah. Um, that was definitely me. Um, you know, I had been lifting for a while before I got here. And I remember one day you were having a conversation with somebody. It was in this building actually. It wasn't in

this, no, it was in the previous building. And you were just like, how many calories do you think you eat a day? And I'm like, I don i don't i don't know i just threw out a random number because i had no clue but i was like oh probably like 1500 calories and looking back it might have been pretty accurate if i was eating clean but at the time i was just eating whatever i can get my hands on so it was probably like well over uh but sorry for the shameless plug but a good start is with this podcast because we talk a lot about like nutrition we talk a lot about a cool shit like a lot of cool shit but it puts you in that frame of mind of like oh wait a second maybe i shouldn't actually be eating a whole tub of peanut butter

because that's actually not a good move you know so just kind of just being aware of things i think is very important but natural peanut butter has those healthy fats. Yeah, right. You do need some healthy fats, but you don't need, you know, 15,000 calories from just those fats. So again, with that, right. So like, oh, but it's got the healthy fats, but you're eating how many calories? Well, how many calories are actually in one serving? Okay, what does a serving actually look like? okay, what does a serving actually look like? So for me personally, where I like really made the turn is when I started tracking. I know we've talked a lot about how like you don't need to track. You've just said it at the beginning of this podcast. But for somebody like me who had no idea, like, wait, what is a gram of protein per pound of body weight? Like, what does that even look like? Also, what does it feel like when I eat steak versus eating just protein powder all day long? Like I'm going to feel that, uh, Mark has mentioned like, you know, maybe don't have so many protein shakes. We want to fill your body with actual whole foods. But, um, so getting back

to where I was going is I had to track for a good amount of time just for the awareness of understanding, Oh, that's what 2000 calories look like. That's what 250 grams of protein can be. And while I could start to feel full and not really think that I need, I'd have to have the carbs, I'd have to have the sweets and all this other extra shit. If I didn't do the tracking for a little bit,

I wouldn't know how to intuitively eat. So that's where I would say is like if you're completely like novice newbie just stepping stepping your toe into the game it's gonna be like it doesn't have to be forever doesn't have to be for a very long time start tracking a little bit just to understand what you're eating do you guys think this is maybe decent place to start is um we have we have macronutrients. We got protein, carbohydrates, and fat. They all act a little differently in the body. And I believe we, all three of us, I believe share this, that protein is a little bit more of, it's not something that really counts against you slash

for you in terms of energy, that it's maybe a little bit better idea to look at fat and carbohydrates as more of a main energy source and that protein is a little bit more of a builder. For myself personally, I found that to be a big advantage throughout the day because it's like, what's kind of like free to me? What can I eat a lot of without having any negative consequence? Encema touched upon fiber. We're already talking about protein. Those are two things that you can eat quite a bit of without having any adverse effects on your lean body composition. And in fact, probably if you lean more towards those and eat those more regularly, you will probably just continue to get leaner and

leaner and leaner. And I've said this many times before, and people are always wondering when Lane Norton's going to roast me or someone's going to roast me. They can't roast me on this piece of information because it's factual. If people were to increase the percentage of protein that they ate, most people would get a lot leaner. The average American, the standard American diet that people are on, they have somewhere between 12% and 14% protein consumption. If people bumped it up to 20, almost all those people, there's always outliers, almost all those people would lose weight. And then people are like, I don't understand how come you're not getting roasted by these other

individuals that we filter stuff through. Well, the reason is because protein has – there's a thermic effect of food, not to make things too complicated or confusing, but it does take the body some energy just to kind of break down protein. And obviously, it takes the body a little bit of energy for carbohydrates and fats as well. But when it comes to protein specifically, it has four calories per gram. Carbohydrates has four calories per gram and so does fat. But there's- Fat's nine.

Oh, fat's nine, my bad. And so the interesting part about protein though is it appears that even though it does have, that's what they labeled as having four calories, again, it doesn't seem to actually register that through the body due to some sort of process of the body. I don't want to get into the details because I don't even really know them. And that's where someone like Lane Norton would be effective in explaining it further.

But it's like I'm of the opinion almost that protein might have less overall calories in it than what is currently assumed. So for me, that's been really beneficial. And if I think about my day in a really honest way and I break stuff down that I did, last night I went for, or yesterday I went for a run. I didn't really do any other training yesterday. Like how many calories do I, just being honest with myself, how much food do I actually need?

And then today, like I did a small workout this morning i'll probably get in a little bit more later on it's not like these i'm not like an olympic athlete like my workouts i'm not in sema i'm not in my prime like he's in his prime he's doing jujitsu so you can make an argument like he fucking needs more food than i do i could back off on that stuff a little bit, even though I'm active, I'm running, I'm doing a lot of stuff. But one of the things about exercise that gets so confusing sometimes is exercise isn't a great way. It's not a great way just to focus on just exercise to lose body fat. It is most likely more effective to concentrate on nutrition, along with trying to find something that helps build muscle mass. Because when you build muscle mass, your metabolic rate, which is how many calories you burn every day, will increase over time.

So hopefully five years from now, 10 years from now, through the process of eating protein and prioritizing protein and through some resistance training, you'll have more muscle on your body and you'll be able to burn more calories and on the protein side of things if you guys go on the channel and you look at the playlist that Andrew made protein University yeah there is a video which Alan Aragon talks about the protein over feeding studies that what you're talking about right now where protein is kind of like it could, if you look at it, might be less than four calories or not four calories. Might be two? Yeah, yeah. Four calories per gram because there have been quite a few studies where they overfed these individuals on protein and their calories were a bit above maintenance.

But these individuals weren't gaining body fat if they were overeating on protein, which is why it's like, you know, you can eat a lot of extra protein. And if more people did eat more protein in general, one of the reasons why they would probably have better body composition is because they'd be more satiated with the food they're eating. One of the reasons why we eat extra protein isn't just because we do a lot of exercise, but it's also because it allows you to feel fuller, right? You don't eat as much in terms of carbs and potentially fat if you're eating quite a bit more protein. So it's something to just keep in mind as a way to dull your appetite yeah lane has even said like after the thermic effect of food it turns out to somewhere around two calories per gram um but what alan aragon was

saying yeah no he's he said it um but it's one of those things it's like okay just because he said it doesn't necessarily mean it's true or not because even he himself is like we're still kind of like not sure trying to figure it out, but it's about that. But then what Alan Aragon was pointing out, like, and I quote, like it just disappeared.

It's like, what the fuck do you mean? Like, so those, those, he did say that. Yeah. Those,

those two calories per gram or the four might turn into two, but then those two don't go like straight to your belly. Like it, we don't know exactly like it's gonna get used for not for um for energy so it's like even if it is becoming two calories like it's not gonna go to the same place like if you eat two calories of fat i give you a quick practical uh uh application of that is when i was in my prep and i was working with burdo and i was like dog i'm so fucking hungry he's like just eat 40 extra grams of protein and i was like well you just just

eat 40 grams of protein through chicken you'll be fine no change in terms of no negative changes the more protein i just kept eating it wasn't it just allowed me to feel full but i wasn't having any type of negative change in my body composition during my prep. And same thing now. Here's the fucked part is that – so we're encouraging you to eat more protein. But protein in most cases comes along with fat. In all cases actually except for in modern times where we can select to eat like a chicken breast. Normally we would kill a bird and you would normally eat the whole thing, skinilage liver kidney like all that stuff you would eat all of it and so therefore you would have a consumption of protein and fat but nowadays we get to like select oh i'm gonna

have a piece of pork and pork could be really lean a chicken breast can be really lean certain cuts a bunch of piedmontese like i'm just even trying to be an ad but this is why like we really fucking like piedmontese because they're flat iron like 46 grams of protein eight grams of fat right and like and they have a bunch of other cuts that are that have very high protein and minimal fat so like i like eating quite a bit of fat more fat than carbs in my diet but for those of you who are trying to limit your fat intake and have a lot of higher protein intake and you want to have some higher carb intake, you can still eat red meat while doing that because their steaks,

they just have a lot of amazing cuts with great macros. So you don't even need chicken to go on a diet. Even if you're going on a low-fat diet, you don't need chicken. I'm still baffled by the 96% lean ground beef that they have because I don't know how that tastes so good, but it's fucking awesome. It really is. So, Andrew, tell them how they can save on some Piedmontese.

Yeah, absolutely. And then, so I was actually talking to Sean Baker about it because I was just curious, you know, the fucking king of carnivore. I was like, you ever mess with Piedmontese? He's like, no, absolutely. He's like, I love it. He's like, and when I'm talking to clients and they want to, like, lean out, he's like, I always recommend Piedmontese? He's like, no, absolutely. He's like, I love it. He's like, and when I'm talking to clients and they want to like lean out,

he's like, I always recommend Piedmontese because the macros, well, he didn't say the macros, because of the leanness. He's like, it's like second to none. And yeah, so if you guys are interested or you guys just want to hurry up and dive in, head over to piedmontese.com.

That's P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T-E-S-E.com and at checkout, enter promo code POWER to save an entire 25% off of your whole order. And if your order is $150 or more, you get free two-day shipping. Links to them down in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Congratulations, by the way, in helping out Sean Baker. He was really grateful. Yeah. And what a cool position to be in, huh?

It was fucking wild, dude. Like, I was was just we were talking and you know it's a big deal he's relying on you to like i mean yeah we're still in communication he's seen by millions of fucking people i know know who that guy is i know and i was like on his youtube channel like not thinking we were actually going to hit publish and i was like oh shit my bad but yeah we're still in communication and it's just yeah it is wild because me and him were having a conversation about like oh man 10, 10 years ago, I never would have thought this and he was like,

10 years ago, I never would have thought I'd be doing this and I'm like, he said that? That's what he said. $1.2 million too is a lot of money

to pay somebody for some camera work so that's, I think it's cool that you got that contract so anybody else that's thinking of trying to use Andrew,

just know like, he's going to do great work but there might be a little bit of a price tag associated with it. My dad makes like a million dollars. You're just going to do great work but there might be a little bit of a price tag so my dad makes like a million dollars just gonna keep feeding jasmine that yeah well hey it's pretty expensive to turn a closet into a full-on working studio so you know yeah yeah if you guys

want you know you know where to find me do you know what i'm referring to my daughter that's great she was a little bit younger uh she was telling i think one of her little cousins and by no means was i a millionaire but he was or she was like uh yeah you know andrew makes he he's we're kind of we're rich he makes over a million dollars but i'm not supposed to tell anybody and i'm like i'm not supposed to tell anybody even get this from like that's so good yeah it's kind of a secret I remember I had a friend that like lived on the same block as me and his dad was really tall and like you just have no perception you know but you do hear that people are like six

feet tall and you kind of hear like you know maybe a basketball player might be like seven feet tall yeah I was like I was like how your dad's huge i was like how tall is he he's like i don't know he's like 65 feet tall and i was like what did you say he's like i don't know he's like 65 feet tall i'm like that's like a couple houses worth of like height i think like there's no i was like no he's it's a fucking titan i was like maybe he's like six seven or something i don't know but yeah 65 feet you ever catch like because this is fucking hilarious but because you started lifting early and but you too in zuma but like you ever catch somebody like just totally lying about what they can lift yes the reason why i bring this up because it when i worked in an office

there was this very small slender guy that was smaller than me skinnier than me was talking to like some office lady who just like yeah you know i've been training really hard we were doing heavy shrugs and i was doing 10 plates like what like 10 plates and she was like wait how much do they weigh and she calculated it all out she's like that's like over a thousand pounds and he's like well it's not a full range of motion movement and i'm just like in tears laughing my fucking face off just one of those pathological liars it just fucking just caught red-handed right in his lie i was like no way dude i love that one i also love when someone's like yeah my friend he's big like you are you're like oh yeah you're like and

they're like point to and seem like this big like and seem like no no they're not yeah no i don't want to get into like argument with you right here on the spot but they're not yeah last thing and we're getting way off track with the better answer guy is my favorite person to dislike it's like oh dude like yeah my my buddy mark bell he's fucking jacked you know he's like awesome dude he's like my mentor he's like a really good successful businessman oh well that's cool well my friend uh you know he's you know made way more money and that's ah but you know my my my other best friend and sema he's fucking jacked he's so smart beyond his age was he as jacked as my friend like fuck dude dude. All right, cool. Always trying to one-up you.

Always trying to one-up you. I'm happy you're lying because I'm just dumb as shit. You're welcome. I'll stand up for you. Protein and fat, a lot of times they come in. Good. Thank you. Protein and fat, they a lot of times accompany each other in the foods that we eat.

But modern times, we can kind of times accompany each other in the foods that we eat. But like modern times, we can kind of select different things. Now it's like in the fitness industry, we're going to try to sell you on like, hey, you know, add some egg whites to your meal or add some chicken breast to your meal. And those can be effective things, but I think they're a massive turnoff to a lot of people. Absolutely. It doesn't taste good. It doesn't taste good at all. And that's why, I mean, that's why we eat the way we eat. But the thing is, you know, if you want to have a lower fat diet and you want to do the egg white thing and chicken breast stuff, that's something you can do. You can augment the meals the way I like to look at it. So if you're going to have three eggs in the morning, I would say have your three eggs and add a little bit of egg white to that.

So that way you still got the flavor. Or if you're really conscious of the calories, you calories, pull out one yolk or something like that. Some sort of intermediate compromise because we don't want to get rid of fat calories. Absolutely. Especially for men. You don't want your fats to be too low. But if you're someone that does diet on lower fats, I would suggest that you experiment having higher fats and decreasing your carb intake for a small period of time. Because most individuals that do eat higher carbohydrate

and do minimize their fats, if you've been doing that for a long, long time and you've never done higher fats and lower carbs, it's going to take you a little bit of time to adapt. Because that was me in the past. And whenever I, whenever I lowered my carbs, I always felt like shit. But, um, when you do that for a period of time, you get used to it. So now I'm typically much higher fat, but there will be days I'm like, okay, I want some extra carbs today. So I'll, I won't go low fat, but I'll lower the fats just a little bit. Um, because you'd be surprised as an athlete that you don't need as many carbs as a lot of people suggest you do. Like my girlfriend eats more carbs than I do, right? But I do way

more work than she does physically, but she eats more carbs than I do typically. So it's just something that you need to experiment and need to mess around with so that you can, because I think most people can get away with both sides of dieting. Your girlfriend eats more carbs, but she probably eats, she probably pays a little bit more attention to her fats. She pays more attention to her fats. She's slightly lower fat. She's very active.

Yeah, she's quite active. She lifts every day. Her fats are around 60 something, but her carbs are in like the 200s, right? And her protein's at like 187. And then how much processed food does she eat? Barely. Barely any. She doesn't. But she's also somebody who I eat like two, one to two big meals a day. She eats maybe four or five meals a day. Right. So you can do this in whatever way works the best for you. You've been on one side to adjust and try the other side for a bit because your body will adjust. And then you could become one of those people who can get away with either because it's not that rare.

It's not a rare thing. It's just most people are either in one camp or another diet camp. And even as a female, she eating like a similar amount of protein in comparison like with her body weight. 150 pounds eating 190 grams of protein a day. Right. So she still gets a lot of protein in um mainly for meat and don't see her have protein shakes that often but she does um so it's like you know if you're it's yeah it works we talk sometimes about carbs and i think that when you throw out the word carbs we i think there's a lot of confusion. Like if a bodybuilder talks about carbs,

like a bodybuilder a lot of times is like, I don't understand the fuck you guys are talking about. I run off a lot of carbs. I eat a lot of carbs. But bodybuilders, bodybuilders are really fucking boring people. And when they're talking about carbs and protein, they're usually talking about egg whites,

chicken breast, and their carbohydrate sources are usually rice and potatoes. And they're very diligent with that stuff. For most of the population, we're going to take a potato and we're going to turn that thing into a loaded baked potato with sour cream and cheese and fucking bacon and all these other things. And even something like bread and stuff like that, we're going to throw like butter on it and we're dipping it in like marinara sauce and like you know we're turning into like a uh it's like a vehicle for a lot more calories and so i demonize carbohydrates a lot it's easier sometimes just for me to say that they're bad but i don't mean that they're bad you know all carbs aren't created equal and there's definitely room in anyone's diet for carbohydrates. I think

they can be really effective. I actually have kind of stumbled upon this over the years and I wrote about it in my book, The War on Carbs. I don't think it's a great idea to like hover around in this like keto, in a ketogenic state all the time. I don't think it's a bad idea to get your body kind of used to that and to play around with that style of diet to see how it feels for you. Keto being very, very low carbohydrate, almost zero carbohydrate, and then bringing the fat and the protein up quite a bit. And like I just think that you're better off kind of being able to burn both sources of fuel. I don't think it's as simple as like, hey, I ate carbs. My body is going to like burn carbs and I didn't eat carbs for a while.

Now my body can't burn them. I don't think it's that – I don't think the body is that like sensitive that way. However, it does take – there is a grace period. It does take a little bit of time to get used to, oh, man, I'm not running off that same energy source. Like, man, I kind of have a headache today. I kind of feel a little drowsy. I feel a little weird today. It's an adjustment period, but it doesn't take very long.

I personally have always done really well on a lower carb diet, but I've also done high carb diets. But on a high carb diet, that's where I needed to pay more attention to my overall calories for the day because it was so easy to overeat because the carbohydrates can sometimes make it easier to overeat. I'll also say this to Andrew's point when he was talking about the experience of tracking gave him a good understanding of, oh, this is what 200 grams of protein is like, or this is what eating 2000 calories during a day is like. I know we're talking about being able to do this without

tracking, but for some of you, if you haven't been able to be successful without tracking and you've been trying to do this by just eating and then not really tracking anything, go and just track for a little bit. A good calculator is the one from Precision Nutrition. I've mentioned it before. So if you like, go on Google and type in Precision Nutrition Calculator. They have a really good calculator there. Just plug in your stuff, see what it says, and just track for a little bit. Because what that'll do is it'll give you a little, like Andrew said, it'll give you awareness so that when you go to not tracking

and you go to just eating, right, you'll have it in the back of your head, okay, this is this much, this is this much. And everything that we're gonna be talking about for these next few episodes is like, yes, we're talking about the food right now, but there are certain things that we do during our day and certain habits that we have that allow us not to be overeating every day. Because if we didn't have these outside habits outside of our nutrition, we'd be big. Like, you know, there would be a lack of control um but i like i would say if

you've been having issues just take some time and just track for a little bit and and don't be too stringent with it but just do it so that you can see what 100 grams of protein is like just just stick that protein on a scale and see what it looks like you know yeah it's yeah definitely you don't have to i get like you said be too stringent with it unless it comes to the shit that you shouldn't be eating yeah got this from mark bell but the thing that mark had said you know people want to track everything but they don't track the things that they need to which is the stuff that's off the plan and that's when people are just need to be more honest with themselves like we're gonna have people that are already saying like well i tried tracking and it didn't work it's like but did you track literally everything like

you know so like again you don't want to make it like a daunting task like what i have to track my like allergy pills in the morning like well maybe not but like that fiber one bar which i'm actually a fan of now didn't know they were that good. Oh, some of that stuff is amazing. Fucking 70 calories for a little. The only problem is they're like this big. The Fiber One brownies and shit. Those things are dope. Dude, they're so good.

So those, so good. But I mix those in with my protein yogurt. It's fucking delicious because it's like a topping. It's so good. I'll show you guys later. Dude, what a genius thing. Like those Fiber One products is amazing. So they're 70 calories.

A little tiny, a little... 70 calories, what's the big deal? I had one right when I left the house. Oh, I took one to work, and I had two right after dinner. It's like, oh, I can't do math, so whatever four times 70 is. Now that's adding... So 280, so you just had another meal that you didn't track. It's like, oh, shit, no wonder why I didn't lose weight.

It's tough. It can be confusing as you're trying to do it. But here's the basics of it. A lot of what we're talking about today is when you start to mix macronutrients together, it makes it a lot easier to eat. And in some cases, that's a good thing because sometimes we do need more energy. Sometimes we do need more food. And in order to eat the proper amount of protein, it's nice if it's accompanied with some fat.

We were talking about the Piedmontese steaks. They are lean, but the thing is that they're tender. Otherwise, we wouldn't be trying to hawk them to you guys because we'd be like, these things taste like shit. They taste like a hockey puck. They're still very tender even though they don't have all the fat calories. Plus, Piedmontese has steaks that have more fat in them if that's something that's kind of your jam. But very interesting is that protein and fat is found kind of all around us in nature. Carbohydrates and fat is found basically nowhere.

The only place where fat and carbohydrates, where you'll see it quite a bit, is in milk. But what is milk for? Milk is to make our beautiful babies, to make them chubby little things and make them have, you know, their wrists are so chubby that it looks like they have rubber bands around their wrists, you know? My son has 10 lines from his rolls.

Oh, that's just fucking, it's amazing for now, but if he has it when he's 25, we're going to be like, hey, yo, you need to cut back a little bit, buddy. That's so funny. So the carbohydrates and fats, I mean, they're not normally found in, I guess, like maybe some almonds or cashews and things like that might have. But like their carbohydrates and those things are usually just kind of fibrous. But again, how easy is it to overeat those things?

Yeah. And if you have something like cashews, it's a great example. Like what if we put a little bit of honey on those cashews and what if there's some salt on those cashews? Now it's just like, they're absolutely amazing. So the mixing of macronutrients can make it easier to eat, but also the mixing of calories can, or the mixing of ingredients can also make it easier to eat.

So one thing to try to think about is to just try to, I believe most of the people listening to this show are adults, you know, try just to examine yourself a little bit and say, I'm not fucking six years old. I don't need a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every two hours. I don't need a popsicle. I don't need a, you know, everything doesn't have to be so fucking sweet all the time. You're not a little kid anymore. Like grow the fuck up and see if you can start to eliminate some sweet flavors for a little while, maybe even just two, three weeks. So push those things out. Try to go a little bit more savory if you can. If you're going to have something sweet for the day, maybe it's more towards the end of the day and it's just like one, it's just like one thing,

sweet for the day. Maybe it's more towards the end of the day and it's just like one thing. But there shouldn't have to be a party in your mouth the entire day, all day, every day. Can I get a hey now? And Seema's like, I disagree. Let's have the ultimate party in my mouth right now. Party right in your mouth.

So when you start to push some of that stuff out, you get used to the protein and fat and the savory side of things, and it makes it a lot easier to manage your calories. All that we're trying to do, and Seema touched upon it already, I want you guys to hone in and focus on this. If you're new to this game,

you're just trying to make it through every single day without overeating. That's all you're trying to do. For those of you who are trying to do. That's it. For those of you trying to lose weight, you get to plant the fucking flag in the ground. You get to celebrate, do a little touchdown dance at the end of every day if you made it through the day without overeating. How do you do that and still have a nutritious plan?

You do so by prioritizing protein and kind of etching everything else around that and kind of determining how many, you know, how much fat do I need? How much carbs do I need? That could be up to you in accordance to your individual plan, but do your best to not fall into the trap of overeating. Yep. I think you killed it. Yeah. I have some more stuff, but I think we can save that for another episode. Save it for another episode.

Yeah. We're going to do a series on this. And so even though there's a lot more to talk about, I think we should take her in for a landing. Take us on out of here. Thank you, everybody, for checking out today's episode. And again, the Piedmontese lean ground beef. Well, they do have lean ground beef, but the lean steaks, ground beef, everything can be found at piedmontese.com. And again, promo code POWER to save 25% off your entire order. Links to them down in the description as well as podcast show notes.

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and check it out. Because we do Discord Q&As and we go back and forth with you guys in there. So, at SeemaYinny on Instagram and YouTube and SeemaYinnyYang on TikTok and Twitter. Who's going to win this battle that's on your shirt here? Who do you think won? I'd have to say the guy with the smaller stature because he has a tail. Oh.

No, no. Not this guy. His name's Goku. Goku. He's the main character, right? Yeah, yeah. He's the guy who inspired every fitness millennial. He does have a thick.

Influencer. He's got a thick neck. He's got a thick neck.'s got a thick neck he's got thick biceps look at those triceps bro striated shoulders what's the guy with the tail oh his name that's frieza frieza is the first main villain of the series he has ass kicked he got his ass kicked how do you get your ass kicked with a tail wouldn't that be an advantage right because you would think right lock do you guys know what dog's tails are used for go ahead you ever thought about this i I just like, it was a question.

Fanning flies out of their anus. That's a good one. Just throw it out there. Balance. Well, also like, you know, they can show when they're happy, scared, blah, blah, but balance. Like when they're doing things, their tails keep their body balanced. So does it mess them up when they get their tails cut? Probably.

Oh yeah, this helps. This is helpful. Yeah, I can feel that. Probably probably who would win goku or ryu oh goku really easily okay easily i'm not gonna argue because i have no idea anything about goku i love ryu too i guess i have i love when you're when a dog is real excited and they move like their whole like their whole butt yeah they're yeah they're like rib they can't even like keep grip on the floor because they're sliding. Yeah, and it's like the tail is going nuts. That's what my puppy does.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are they so expressive like that? It's interesting. Dogs, man, they are a blessing. They're crazy. When I feed Daisy in the morning, she just keeps spinning around, around, around. Jesus. Jesus Christ. And then when your son falls asleep and they bark at something and wake him up and he doesn't go back to bed till like 11

yep they're not as amazing anymore by the time I have a kid my dogs are going to be older they'll understand they'll keep their asses shut yeah well our dogs are older too and they pee all over the house yeah chihuahuas I'm just saying I'm experiencing it right now

the essence of vocal dog little fuckers. Peeps, ask us some questions because I know you got some questions. Hopefully, we got some answers for you. I'm at Mark Smiley Bell. Strength is never a weakness. Weakness is never strength. Catch you guys later.

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