Mark Bell's Power Project - The Effortless Diet - The Simplest Diet Advice on the Internet || MBPP Ep. 1108

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

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There ain't nothing wrong with having some bread. Bread is not bad. It's just that a lot of times, bread is like a shuttle system for other calories. Truly think about the foods you currently have in your cabinet at home, the things that you are overeating, try to get rid of them. When I tell them, hey, ditch your carbs,

the next conversation is, but you get to have bacon, fattier cuts of meat. And it's super easy to cook because you just stick it in the air fryer, go do your thing, come back, your meat is ready to eat and it's perfect. The excuse of not knowing how to cook meat properly and the excuse of time,

it really, really eliminates those two things. You should still be able to have some of the things that you love. However, for some of you, you need to make things black and white for a while. But once you get over that period of time and you train yourself, you can now become what I would refer to

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How many millionaires are there? Billionaires. Billionaires. I'd say 40. I'm terrible with numbers, I don't know. That's a lot of billionaires. That's a lot. It's like 260.

Oh, that's more than I would have assumed. So that you keep hearing people talking about taxing the billionaires. I don't even know what the numbers would be, but if you were to tax, if you were to be stronger on the taxes for billionaires, it's not gonna equal out to any amount of money that's gonna actually do anything.

But a billion dollars is a lot of money. Oh yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'm not saying we need a tax, but like some of these billionaires have hundreds of billions. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's some of them that aren't getting taxed that heavily, right?

And there's some of them that aren't getting taxed hardly at all. But the argument, it's dumb argument is my point. But no one's going to understand that. They're just going to be like, well, they're billions. My head, I'm just like, but it's billions. It's like, yeah, we're rich people. My thing is I'm not rich.

I mean, I'm rich in other ways, but like my bank accounts, they're not anything. And I pay a fuck ton of taxes and it's extremely frustrating. And I don't understand. I just, the whole money thing is crazy. That's why I'm saying it's easy to get you riled up about like, yeah, the billion, fuck the billionaires. Yeah, but- It's easy to get people to like, it's a easy mission to get people to listen to.

But what I'm saying is they're barking up the wrong tree. Like this is not even gonna really do anything. It might give the country a few hundred million dollars, but that doesn't help. Like we're in too much debt. It'll help Ukraine. Yeah. It'll help, yeah.

It'll help Ukraine but not Florida. I'm curious about looking into this more. This is interesting. Because yeah, what do they currently pay versus like what do you want them to pay?. Yeah, what do they currently pay versus like, what do you want them to pay? And like- You never know what they actually pay them.

And that's, I know, it's all craziness and like, where does it stop? Like you want people to pay 60%. I mean, there's been studies, you know, like I think Harvard's done this and a bunch of other, bunch of other prominent universities where they've done like a 17% tax on everybody just straight across the board. And it works out to be the same amount of money they collect now.

It's just weird. One thing I would say, and you guys can both attest to this and especially kind of like where you're heading right now, you get completely fucked at first. And that shouldn't happen. Like you shouldn't be able to move. Like when you move multiple tax brackets quickly, there should be some sort of like a little bit of break for that.

Because you know what I mean? Like if someone goes from making hardly anything to like making 400,000, now you're just in that 49% bracket or whatever the fuck it is. And you're like, you're just in that 49% bracket or whatever the fuck it is. And you're like, how am I in the 49% bracket when 400,000 doesn't stretch the way it used to stretch? You know, like it's just, it's funny.

Cause like the second that you start to do well, you get on the other side of it and you're speaking like the complete opposite way you spoke before. Cause this way you spoke before, like I can't wait to get my money back. That's so true. I never really realized that if you got money back

at the end of the year, it meant you're kind of broke. Yeah. I was like, God damn. My dad told me that one time. I was like, really? Those are good lessons for your dad, man. I was like, yeah, I don't, yeah. I was like, how come we don't get money back anymore?

He's like, cause you're making money. I was like, damn. I wonder how financial education is anymore? He's like, cause you're making money. I wonder how financial education is now in schools. Guys, we're going to talk about nutrition in this one and we're going to get to a lot of good stuff. But you know, it does make me curious about, you know, first off, obviously it's, it's great if parents educate their kids on finances, all these different things, taxes, et cetera.

But I wonder, do they teach that in schools these days? I mean, Quinn and Jake actually had like your dad and you guys, but did they learn any aspects of that in school? Because if they still don't, I wonder why not? It's very important. Like it's one of the most important aspects of becoming an adult.

Yeah, I don't know how much of that they learned in school, but you know, I think it's a good idea for us to try to do our best to teach our children the things that we know and especially the things that maybe we're sort of maybe like material expert in. So if you are a mechanic, then I think that you should take your kids in the garage one day and say, here's a carburetor, here's this, here's that. Even though your kid's probably gonna like not like it, they might not enjoy it, they might not dig it. I think it's important to kind of show them what you did to like make money.

And I think it's also important for them to know some of those things. But I do remember Quinn when she was like, probably like eight or nine, telling me like she came home from school one day and she's like, she goes, did you know that you can kind of like just make up your mind on your mood? And I was like well, I was eight. I was like, what does that mean? She's like, well She's like just cuz someone says something hurtful to you doesn't mean that you have to cry So you can kind of react to it like in different ways or you can just realize that maybe That person's saying it because maybe somebody picked on them. And I was like, wow. I was like, what is this like you're learning? Like this is amazing. Like I want to go to this class.

Yeah. Did she say she got it in class though? That's so... Yeah. Wow. Wow. That's so... Oh man. At eight too. That's... Yeah. It was so sweet. Yeah. It's great. I was like, wait... How'd that make you feel? It made me feel great. Yeah, it was so sweet. Yeah. It's great. I was like, wait. How'd that make you feel? It made me feel great. I was so happy.

I was like excited. I was just learning some of that stuff myself. So I'm like, I'm just picking some of this up now. But it's cool that you're learning at such a young age. That's amazing. Yeah. My daughter is a junior and I can't think of... How's that? It's weird.

I just realized the lights off. No, no. She's never came home and said like, oh, we talked about, you know, like balancing a checkbook or whatever. I remember, so I like barely graduated high school. So I had business math. Like that's like where they put all the, you know, lesser than like, it was just a class that I needed credits for. Right. And like it was like... was like lesser than which, which way does that face? I can never figure that out towards you. Yeah. That's the alligator eats the bigger number.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. So greater than lesser than. So the alligator was eating everyone outside of this class cause we were not the greater. Okay. The great logo for a business. Lesser than. Anyway, that's the only class that I ever took that we actually like learned how to

balance a checkbook, which of course doesn't even matter anymore because nobody writes checks. But outside of that never once was any kind of like financial anything ever. Hmm. Yeah. Workman's comp or not Workman's comp, it's experiences. How is that bar? You stuffed it right in your mustache over there.

That's surprisingly good. That's surprisingly good. You gave it to me. David, two grams of fat, 28 grams of protein, 14 grams of carbs. It's surprising that it's two grams of fat because it's like, it has a little bit of a, it doesn't melt in your mouth like a chocolate bar does,

but it melts in your mouth better than most protein bars. It actually, when you chew it, it has this like nice soft texture, which in a lot of protein bars, like Quest bars are really good, but they, they, they're chewy. You know what I mean? And they're so good though, but this one-

They're chewy, like fibery. Yeah. Yeah. They have some sort of fiber corn starch thing going on in there or something. These they're so good though, but this one. They're chewy, like fibery. Yeah. Yeah, they have some sort of fiber cornstarch thing going on in there or something. These guys did a good job, man. I think that has like some allulose in it. So it has like 160 or 180 calories. 150 on this one.

Yeah, 150. It's sort of like the fake calories, you know, cause it's like, you know, in it. Yeah, it's like a sugar alcohol or whatever. So you gotta be careful. If you eat too many of them, you can, it's like a sugar alcohol or whatever. So you gotta be careful. If you eat too many of them, you can blow it out. They taste great. It's a good product.

Good snack. Yeah, I never even heard of them, so I'm excited to dive in. I heard about them through Peter Itea was talking about them, and I think he's like an investor in the company, I think. And I heard Huberman talking about them as well. I's like an investor in the company I think and Tia and I heard a Huberman talking about him as well as I got a check these things out So I ordered some up and they're good. I think the best one is the cookie dough

Cookie dough for the win. Well, thank you. You gave me one of the best flavors Yeah, we talked a lot about you know we've talked in the past a bunch about snacks and I actually just shot a YouTube video on snacks and showed people like a lot of snacks that I have at my house. But, you know, I think like, you know, a reinterpretation of the snacks that we have, I think is important. And people, because you can still have a snack.

You know, I guess somebody prepping for a bodybuilding show and they got 16 weeks and then 12 weeks and stuff. It's like, you should probably have the conversation of like, you probably really shouldn't have anything that's like an actual snack. You should probably mainly have meals, right? That's what people in bodybuilding normally do. Could you have snacks and still figure it out?

I'm sure you could, but your snacks are probably just gonna look like smaller versions of meals that have the correct kind of macros for a bodybuilding show. But anyway, I think, you know, we can learn to like swap things out, learn to trade things out. Maybe you love having like a donut in the morning

or you love having like a bagel and cream cheese. And can you change that out with something slightly healthier? Just stop being fat. Yeah, can you stop being so fat? Nah, nah, nah. But no, you're totally right about the snack thing. And we're gonna get some more stuff too,

but when it does come to some snacks, I think first, I don't know, I think first it's gonna be a good habit to just try to stop snacking in general. Because maybe for some people it's okay to go the route of, okay, I'm gonna get all the snacks out of my house and instead I'm gonna replace them. That's good. And it's harder to binge on something like a Quest Bar

or a David Protein Bar or any of these types of foods because they still have more protein. And protein's gonna make you feel fuller. So it's a better option. But I think for a lot of people, sometimes it's necessary to kind of go cold turkey, so that you kind of get the habit and you get the feel of not grazing all day

in terms of putting just random foods in your mouth and you feel a little bit hungry. Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo do. Sometimes you're not like... I'm not saying you need to fast all day, but sometimes, you need to let yourself feel that the hunger can pass, and you don't have to eat something. You don't have to put something in your mouth. And then, when you're more responsible, and like maybe you're just used to eating meals, let's introduce some protein bars. Frickin' Wild Chips from Costco are really good. Have you tried those Wild Chips yet?

Yeah, like chicken... Chicken breast chips, pretty much. They have different flavors, like buffalo, and they have chicken and waffles flavors, which is- That's really good. Yeah. I've had them before. You've had them?

You've had the chicken and waffle? Mm-hmm. W-I-L-D-E, wild. Wild. They're at Costco. The only one at Costco right now is the buffalo one. I bought like five bags of that. But with that, it has good macros.

Good job on the moderation. Listen, I still have four bags. I don't eat a full bag at once. But the thing is, is like, if you want to eat chips, they have a good amount of protein, a good amount of fat, and very minimal carbs. And I usually just like dip it in a little thing of guac and have a few, right?

It's not like something like Doritos, where you just eat, you can eat a bag after bag after bag. It's a good replacement. But I think that most people would benefit from the feeling of cold turkey, eating real meals, and then going back to introducing some snacks in. Not everybody, but I know that that works really well for a lot.

There they are, there's those chips. Chicken and waffles, the ranch flavor's pretty damn good. And I would say the legendary pop chips are awesome. I think they're better than the Quest chips. They're really good. They have barbecue, they got a nacho cheese, they got a bunch of different flavors. Is that also a chicken breast thing

or is it something else? No, that's like whey protein, I think. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, but those are pretty delicious as well. But I agree, I think, you know, chopping these things out is the best thing that you can do. And I, you know, had that statement to Tom Segura. I was like, snacks are for kids, you know,

what are you, seven years old? Like, get your shit together. And, you know, I think it's helpful to get rid of snacks. I do think that, yeah, you can still manage your body weight and you could probably still be in great shape and still eat snacks. I have them quite a bit. I have a lot of them at my house because I've found that,

I found that not being surrounded by them tends to make me want to binge more towards stuff that is worse for me. So for me, I have like a bunch of it around. I got like a drawer, I can just pull the drawer out and it's got like legendary pop tarts and it's got like all this shit just sitting right there. I can just grab it at any time. I found that for some weird reason, I'm more reasonable with it when it's just sitting there rather than it not being there. And then I'm like, oh man, I want to door dash

and get some Ben and Jerry's. Okay, let me ask this. Do you think when you were making the first transition away from snacks, do you think you would have been as reasonable or are you more reasonable now because of experience? Because I'm the same way now. Like now I have, dude, you guys will be proud of me.

I have like six things of Ben and Jerry in my freezer in the garage. Real Ben and Jerry. Not protein shit, right? Last night, I had three spoonfuls and put it back in the freezer. And that's been there actually in my freezer for a while. Like I just bought my favorite flavors because sometimes they run out. Like Dirt Cake and Gimme S'more and Peanut Butter S'more. So I bought three of each. How good is dirt cake?

Dirt cake is impeccable. It's all, it's so good. Quinn has great taste. Yeah, isn't that amazing? That is all. Yeah. Dirt cake is like, I think it's better than gimme s'more. But this is the thing.

I wouldn't have been able to do this in the past. Those things that Ben and Jerry, I've had them in there for weeks and I don't have them every night. Like I have maybe twice a week and I'll have a few spoons. That wasn't possible in the past. I think as we get older, we kind of think about the consequences, you know?

Like if, I mean, for me, if I have a lot of Ben and Jerry's, I'm gonna get really gassy, and then the next day, I'm gonna be like blowing the toilet up more than even normal. And it's just like, I hate those consequences, you know? So when it comes to like some of these like offshoot, like quote unquote healthy snacks, they're still highly processed.

A lot of times they have these fake sugars in them and weird fibers in them. And therefore it can cause your stomach to like blow up. My wife likes hero bread, but every once in a while she'll eat too much hero bread. And she's like, oh my God, I've been in the bathroom all day. Hero bread is something they make Hawaiian rolls and we've made, you know, Piedmontese sliders

on those things. Just absolutely ridiculous, tastes so good. It's a higher fiber type of bread. And look, a lot of the stuff we're sharing with you guys, say I'm not by any means swearing these things off and saying that they're healthy because they're highly processed, highly palatable foods, but they are alternatives that could potentially help you.

Again, my statement is it's best to get rid of all these things completely and to have your diet be pretty like naked, have your diet be pretty much meat, fruit, vegetables. I think that would be the best. I'm sorry, 22 grams of fiber. So it's 23 grams of carbs, but 22 grams of fiber. 11 grams of protein and four grams of fat.

Yo, it is really, honestly, man, it's really cool that there are all these options nowadays. Alternatives, yeah. Alternatives, because I feel like even five years ago, there weren't like the amount of useful alternatives that there are now, or maybe I just wasn't aware. No, there wasn't. There, yeah.

No, this is, I mean, this is coming, you know? This is like, you know, Mark Sisson did a great job with Primal Kitchen years ago, and then he sold Primal Kitchen for quite a bit of money. And then our friend Ron Penna had a lot of success with Quest Nutrition, and he sold it for a billion dollars. And that company is like on fire, and that ended up being a really good acquisition.

It's like, why is it a good acquisition? Why are these things working? Well, people are turning around a lot of the drinks at the store. You'll notice when you look at beverages in the store, they're turned around to the calories on the back. People are looking at the calories and I've seen so many things that have 150, 160 calories just left there.

The things that are like more on the diet side, the things that have less calories, they're like, you know, they're starting to, people are starting to purchase them more. So people are voting with their money, voting with their dollars for, you know, they're starting to, people are starting to purchase them more. So people are voting with their money, voting with their dollars for, you know, products that are potentially a little bit healthier. Now I'd also say this makes things even more confusing. There ain't nothing wrong with having some fucking bread. Like bread is not bad.

It's just that a lot of times, bread is like a shuttle system for like a lot of other calories. You know, if you're having a sandwich or you're eating a bacon cheeseburger or something like that, it's got, you know, you got the cheese and the bacon and just a lot of calories, right? And then we're eating with like French fries or something like that. Yeah. And the calories really start to pile up.

So those are things to be aware of. Yeah. And on the line of what you just mentioned there, that's one of the big concepts we all try to keep in mind. We want to eat things that give us the signals to stop eating. Right. I haven't tracked since 17, right. 2017 or something. But it's because I mostly eat foods that are going to send me signals to stop. So, for example, this I've never had this here a bun.

But the fact that it has 22 grams of fiber, right? If I had that with like a patty or two, because of the fiber, it's gonna be a little bit harder for me to be like, you know what, let me have another one of these. Because normal buns are, they have a nice soft gooey texture. Go right through them real easy. It's gooey, it's truly like-

It encourages you to eat more. Yeah, like you could just, yes, it's a shuttle. Like you can just, and you don't necessarily feel as full, but this, I would feel full with 22 extra grams of fiber along with the protein and fat from what I just ate. So it's like, try to eat foods that are gonna give you the signals to stop eating and try not to eat foods that you can like

keep pounding down. One thing to think about, I think it's like a level of awareness that everyone needs to have, is truly think about the foods you currently have in your cabinet at home, the things that you are overeating, and try to get rid of them. And don't give yourself the excuse of the kids if you're someone who's listening that has kids, because that's not going to serve you.

Like, if you're binging on these types of food, what is the benefit of your kids also having it? I mean, everyone in the house should try to be eating a little bit healthier, right? So take note of that and don't have it at arm's length because again, I mentioned the Ben and Jerry's, right? But years back, hell no, would I be able to just have Ben and Jerry

sitting in the house when I wanted to have it, I would eat the whole thing. Now, because I have a bit more control, I've been distanced from it for a while and it's back, I don't feel the drive towards eating a whole thing. Now, because I have a bit more control, I've been distanced from it for a while and it's back, I don't feel the drive towards eating a whole thing or two of them. I think you came over my house like not too long ago. Maybe it was a while back, but we cooked up a bunch of burgers and we had some like buns. We had some regular buns, you know, imagine that. And because we have friends over, we have different people over and different people want to do different things with their nutrition

or some people don't care as much. But what Encima did is something that I do all the time. And you got like three or four patties and you had, one, you stacked up two patties on one bun and you ate that. And then you ate the other patty or two that you had on your plate by itself. So it's like, you ate a certain amount of carbs.

You enjoyed the burger the way that you want to enjoy it. And then you also just ate the other ones because they're like extra protein and you need X amount of calories per day because you're a savage. But I think if we can kind of just be like, the idea of be less fat is that right there. It's like, let's make moves and let's do things

that are just small changes, small swaps. We're not asking you to, we're not asking you to like break your TV and never watch it again. We're not asking you to never have a chip again. We're not asking you to never have Ben and Jerry's again. We recognize those are all like ludicrous things that just don't make any sense.

You should still be able to have some of the things that you love and some of the things that you enjoy. However, for some of you, you need to make things black and white for a while. And you might need to make things kind of difficult for a little while. But once you get over that period of time and you train yourself,

you can now become what I would refer to as like a diet ninja. And you can sort of fit I would refer to as like a diet ninja. And you can sort of fit in and blend in in any, you can be a diet chameleon and you can blend in with any background that there is. It doesn't matter what somebody cooked, doesn't matter what somebody made,

you could be prepared at all times. Something even like Chinese food, which is like almost impossible to try to figure out how to eat something like healthy, when there's Chinese food. But if you did what I do and what some of us do, if you ate before you went to this party or event or Chinese restaurant or whatever it is,

then you could choose to still enjoy the food, but maybe you don't eat as much because maybe you had an awesome steak before you left the house. Yeah, I wanted to go back. So like you were talking about Primal Kitchen, just to, because I saw a lot of people freaking out about it, but the Mexican owned company,

Siete, sold to PepsiCo, or whatever the fuck it's called. So again, another like Primal Kitchen craft situation where people are like, no, like they're gonna ruin it or whatever. It's like, okay, hopefully they don't. They might use the logo to make some BS or whatever. But again, everybody's been voting with their dollar and it's making a difference to the point

where this gigantic company like Pepsi now has to, well not has to, but they showed interest in they purchased a whole company to that so then they can start, you know, producing the same thing. And like a healthier chip or something? So they got chips, they got, they started with tortillas. So like that was their main thing. They just wanted to make them gluten free,

but make them taste good. And then eventually started making chips. They make these like cinnamon ones. They're so damn good. They make like, dude, like a nacho cheese one or whatever. They're freaking incredible. And then there's this other company, Simple Mills. They sell those at Costco. They make like a cracker type thing and they make another like graham cracker type thing.

So I know we were just talking about like all the snacks and stuff. For me, it was the thing about finding like protein rich, low calorie, don't care what's in it as long as the macros are good. And I would, you know, it helped me with my physique and everything and it helped me feel better. But now what I started leaning into is just like really paying attention to the ingredients. So like if something is like super high in,

whether it's artificial sweeteners, and I know when somebody says seed oils, you have two camps, you have the camp that says like, yep, they're going to murder you or whatever. And the other camp that says, you're an idiot for thinking that they do anything. When I remove them from my diet, I seem to be less gassy and I kind of feel better.

Happy tummy. So I started leaning more towards the happy tummy. And physique wise, I've been feeling good because now I have a little bit more energy. And so the question that I want to pose to you guys is when it comes to snacks, lately what I've found is like if I'm feeling a little sluggish, I might just have now again, my diet's pretty plain right now. But if I want to have a little party, I'll have a plain rice cake with some peanut butter. Is it special peanut butter?

Yes. It's two ingredients. It's almonds and salt. That's all it is. That's almond butter, buddy. Oh, sorry. Peanuts. My bad. Because we have the almond one as well. But I have the peanut butter one. My bad. I'm looking in the fridge and I see the almond one in the front. That's why. That with a little bit of local honey. And that's like the most amazing thing I've ever had. That actually sounds really good.

It's so good. I have that, I'm no longer feeling sluggish. And it wasn't even so much that I needed food, I just felt a little tired. There are times when I'm like, oh man, I'm kind of hungry. And if I'm hungry and I go for that, I'm just gonna be more hungry. So are times when I'm like, oh man, I'm kind of hungry. And if I'm hungry and I go for that, I'm just gonna be more hungry.

So how do you guys coach somebody on whether or not they actually truly need that snack or it's like a mental thing, it's a boredom thing? Man, I think that's a tough thing sometimes, but I think that what we get from food, we get so many, such a cascade of like so many things going on. Food works really well. It does give you like dopamine and serotonin.

You get a good crunch. And when you're thinking about rice cake, like people might think, oh, rice cakes are kind of gross, but rice cake with peanut butter and honey on it is kind of great. Anything with peanut butter and honey on it is going to be amazing. I think just some people need to be careful with that. Like if somebody is trying to really control and manage their weight, it's going to be just harder

for them to do it with snacks in there. Cause they're not going to, I mean, you kind of have shown yourself consistently that you don't know how to behave properly Because they're not going to, I mean, you kind of have shown yourself consistently that you don't know how to behave properly when it comes to like being reasonable, right? And so you're not going to be reasonable. And so the only way to like, the only way to help you be more obedient is to probably box you in a bit and to make some really hard, fast rules that are very simple.

And that's why I often tell people just to ditch carbs. Because if you ditch carbs, it's like, what options do you start to have for snacks? Now you could go with like keto bombs and fat bombs and you could start to go all this weird route. But if you're eating natural foods and you get rid of carbohydrates, I think it's a good move. I know Dr. Mike Isretel did a video on this recently, but I think that so many people, I know that Mike is well aware of where people are in the United States.

I know he's well aware that there's people that are heavy, that there's people that are obese. But I think that the way that you talk to the fitness community is quite a bit different than the way that you're gonna talk to somebody who's really struggled with their weight for a long time. I've found that most people that I know,

and this could be different for some other folks, but when I tell them, hey, ditch your carbs, the next conversation is, but you get to have bacon, you get to have cheese, you get to have fattier cuts of meat. And a lot of people that I know actually like those foods. They like having an omelet, they like having bacon, they like having some of these fattier foods. So the departure from some of the carbohydrates

isn't as bad for some of those people. Yeah, I think also, first off, little side note, it's actually kind of funny, You and Sam are kind of similar. Sam's like fucking snack, right? Is a rice cake. She'll have like eight chocolate chips that she'll like press down on it, get a little warm and then press the chocolate chips down.

Oh, she heats them up. She heats them up just a little bit, literally like five seconds so that she can do the press down on all the chocolate chips on the rice cake along with a little bit of almond butter. The chocolate chocolate chip one ain't bad. The Quaker. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, they got stuff in it though. Yeah, and there's like more fat. The plain one is just rice. Yeah. One thing I think would be super helpful for people is, you know, Andrew, I think one thing that's happened to you over the years, and it's happened to all of us, is the reorganization of our palate, right?

In terms of the things that we find enjoyable to eat. Because it's kind of funny, we've talked to Stan Efferding, and what was it that Stan Efferding's like? Strawberries. Whoa, strawberries and what? What was it? Strawberries. He's like, when I have a treat, it's strawberries and... It's something with this, is it just strawberries?

It's just strawberries. See, Stan has that... Might have been some whipped cream or something. I think it was just strawberries. Just strawberries. See, Stan has that elite, healthy fricking palate cream or something. I think it was just strawberries. Yeah! See, Stan has that elite, healthy fricking palette. But the truth is, strawberries are amazing. Fruit is amazing.

It'll taste better to you when you get used to natural foods. Exactly. Whereas initially, when you start having that type of stuff, it's kind of boring. But like for me, I don't have breakfast every morning, but like this morning I was like, I need to eat something before I get over here. I was feeling kind of tired, so I was like, okay, let me have like six boiled eggs, put two packs of sardines on top of it.

I have a little bit of hot sauce and a little bit of like chili sauce I'll put on top of it and some, you know, kimchi and stuff. But I eat that, it tastes really good. Now, I'm pretty sure I would have actually found that to be tasty years ago too, but it's just something that I wasn't eating as often, because it's not something that I reached for.

I'd reach for something else. I'd reach for something quicker. I'd reach for something carby, right? And for me, when I eat carbs, I usually have them towards the evening, just because they tend to help me feel a little bit... Mmm, carbs, I'm just sleepy. Right? So I think having some, like you mentioned, Mark, bacon, etc. Having some protein snacks, something that you can just put in a bowl. And one thing I do, like, Andrew, I know you're not going to like this one, but at Costco,

they have packs of boiled eggs in packages. And I'll just literally just cut that open, put it in a bowl, put the sardines on top, warm it up, right, and eat it, right? And it's fast, because I don't want to sometimes spend the time, I have other eggs in my fridge, but I don't want to always spend the time having to prepare it.

I want something that literally the next three minutes, food is in my mouth. And you don't have to take it off the shell. Right, like you gotta let it cool down and then do this thing. It's like, fuck. I know a lot of people might not like fish, but I love tinned fish, you know, and it's just, and there's chicken and stuff in cans and all that shit too, but I love oysters and mussels and just all these different things. And they're just quick and easy. Boom, you pot,

a lot of times they have a top that you can just pull right off quick and easy. I think there's a big difference between snacks in the traditional way. So we have to always kind of be careful of who we're talking to, because we talk to most people, if you were to say, hey, what's your favorite snack? They would insert some junk food.

Oreos. Yeah, if you're talking to someone that's in fitness, they'd be like, I love rice cakes. Eggs and sardines. Or yeah, or they might be like, oh, I love the microwave too. I love fruit and yogurt. It's got to smell great. Actually, no, like I only, I only wore it up for 90 seconds because longer than that, it explodes. What are those sticky something or other sticky? Sorry, Mark. You're not supposed to microwave hard boiled eggs. 90 seconds, man. I've made the mistake of going like 100. It's like a fucking grenade. It is a grid, literally.

That's why I found the perfect amount of times. Warm up six to eight eggs. 90 seconds in my microwave, it won't explode. There's sticky rice cakes, too. You ever have those? Like rice cake roll? Oh, yeah. Those are pretty dope.

They got a little extra umph to them though. So a little bit of unwanted ingredients and calories for me. Oh, is there a little weird something in there? They're rice rollers. Rice rollers. Those are pretty dope. To me, they taste like those like a sugar smacks cereal. Yeah.

Yeah. You could sometimes find some of this stuff too. That's like a little extra hippie dippy that has has like less less whatever in them but it's hard. Those are good. Something that's like a bit again another Costco find I don't know if you guys had it but they have these nut these uh these nut clusters it's like cashew pumpkin seed. Oh dude yeah those are fire. You gotta be careful.

You have to be careful with those that's not a safe snack. That's a texture thing for me though, like, yeah. Are they, they're covered with chocolate, right? No, they're not covered with chocolate. Okay, nevermind. Like honey or something? Yeah, honey. Yeah, that's not a safe snack.

That shit's dangerous. But if we're being real though, it is a healthier snack than the typical shit, right? It's at least full ingredients, has a bit of sugar, but it's nuts. You can go crazy with nuts though, so it's not something that if you're a beginner with this shit, you? It's at least full ingredients, has a bit of sugar, but it's nuts. You can go crazy with nuts though. So it's not something that if you're a beginner with this shit, you wanna start off.

I'm just being real. That's at least a purple belt level, at least. You're right. Yeah, I think, you know, it's easy to go back and forth on this kind of stuff so much, but like, again, if you're trying to get your shit together and you're trying to be in good shape It's nice to know that some of these options are out there and then you could purchase it here and there

Something that you might want to try to do is just you know buy stuff and let it run out and then don't purchase Like it again for a little bit buy it have it in the house Eat it consume it get rid of it Don't have it for a while and then go back to it Like I'll do that every once in a while with cream, like heavy cream. Like, you know, it's fucking awesome to throw heavy cream into a shake, but I don't want to throw heavy cream into a shake

year round all the time, it's gonna make me fat. But it's delicious, you know? So I'll buy some sometimes, I'll use it, I'll go through it, and then it's not there again for a little while. Yeah, I do that with honey, but I do it for a couple different reasons, but same thing. I kind of put that in almost anything. I make an excuse to just throw that in there as well. But like-

Are you getting into eating the honeycomb too? I don't like- no, I wasn't- It's wild. It's like you're chewing on like a little waxy- I was gonna say it turns into a candle and then you're like, what do I do with this extra stuff? What do you mean? It just turns into a candle like it's just wax. Yeah, you're just chewing on it forever I don't it doesn't I don't know like I'm not swapping. Yeah, what's supposed to happen with it out? So you kind of chew on it forever. It's just the honeycomb and seem as though like the actual like comb Mm-hmm. You chew on the whole thing you get the honey out

But then once the honey runs out you're left with just some wax. You know how good the fruit stand is? That's right here in Davis. You ever been there? I want to, every day I go home, I want to stop, but I'm stuck. Yeah, it's like right by Target. Yeah, I'm like stuck in so much traffic. Oh, the one right here.

I thought you were talking about the one in the middle of the causeway. Yeah, there's that too. Yeah, I gotta check this one out. That other one's harder to get to. There's so much traffic. Yeah, the one that's over by Target though, that's not that bad to get to. Ikea, I think it's called.

It is amazing. You'll find like all the cool like honey and peanut butter. Oh yeah, they do have some cool stuff there. Yeah, yeah, I've been there before. They have some really nice fruit there. You're trying to get healthier and you're probably eating chicken for every meal or the same beef cuts for every meal. And trust me, I know how good some cuts can be. You can make anything taste good.

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off your build a box. Again, goodlifeproteins.com, link is in the description as well as the podcast show notes. You guys ever just have a straight date? Yeah. I'm like, how come nobody knows about these? Yeah, no one told me anything about no date. Nobody. Like who's hiding this information?

Because dates are like the most incredible thing ever. That's why people need to get some fruits more. Yeah. Like, I mean, I get a lot of people are carnivores, but get some fruits in your diet. I don't even know what a date is. Is it a fruit? It's, it has to be a fruit. Yeah.

I don't know. Let's type this in on Google. I barely had like a blackberry the other day, right? So like, I'm still learning this shit. Yeah, dates are really good. I think some people got, some people were like, oh, they got crazy amounts of sugar in them. But they've kind of found that, you know,

most of these items that are natural, they usually have other sugar in them, but they've kind of found that most of these items that are natural, they usually have other things in them to help you with the diet, with the digestion, like same thing with honey and same thing with maple syrup and all these things. They usually have other co-factors in them that help you regulate the blood glucose. They're like an incandescent light bulb.

It's got the other things that protect you. Exactly. You can do one, like dates probably good. They have quite a bit, like, okay, for per serving, okay, one cup of dates chopped, 110 carbs, but 964 milligrams of potassium, which is pretty fucking awesome. That's- For an entire cup?

A cup of dates. That's a lot. That's a lot of potassium. I would never have a full cup. If you throw dates into like a fruit bowl, oh my God, it's so good. Yeah? Yeah, like I make a fruit bowl with like, I usually use blueberries and I use, so raspberries are amazing

because if you sort of like whip raspberries into like yogurt or cottage cheese, it just becomes like a jam. And so that's a cool hack. And I take, this is the way vanilla protein powder, dump that in there. And then I have the blueberries and then I'll have some dates in there

and I'll put some honey on it. It's just like, it kind of reminds me of just being like a fat kid, like just diving in and eating like brown sugar. That's what it becomes at that point, but I love that. But that's as healthy as fuck. Yeah, it's healthy. I'm trying to make a concerted effort to curse less

because I've realized that I can sometimes have a potty mouth. You're a disgusting human. Yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying. It's all that gangster rap. Oh, the gangster rap. But dude, that's a super healthy thing, super easy to make and it's actually a good snack. So, like Greek yogurt or cottage cheese and fruits, etc.

And you have some protein in there also. Tastes amazing, gets you your fill, you feel like a fat kid, you feel like you got your fill, and bam, you're good. These are easy things you could do. And let's not forget about shakes and protein shakes, because whether you're bulking or whether you're trying to eat less, we've mentioned having protein first. So like for me, when I feel hungry,

it'll either be like, hmm, let me grab some eggs and some protein, let me just grab protein in general. I forgot to also mention I had a little bit of rib with my breakfast this morning. So it was eggs, sardines, and rib and kimchi. Was that just because it was like leftover? Yeah. I do that all the time too.

Like I have some leftover buffalo wings I'm thinking about today. I'm like, cause I had some last night. You're thinking about it. Yeah. I keep, yeah, I was thinking about it this morning. I was like, I should throw that in with some eggs. I was like, I don't have time.

Yeah. But the thing is like this stuff like. Leftover rib. Just chewing on a single rib in this kitchen being like looking at the clock That's truly how I was this morning But again the big concept is eating stuff that is good But will actually help you feel full like I really try to stay away from things that I know that I can Because I can still put it down like I used to don Don't get me wrong. If I ate the wrong things, I could put it down with anybody else.

I hold that pride very high, but I don't do that. Could you be like in an eating competition, you think? Those little people are sneaky. Like, if you work your way onto that professional level, maybe? I think I could progressively overload to it, but I think I'd need some training first. Cause you see those skinny people where they're like,

and then they're going for like an hour, just scarfing, scarfing. Could make for a good YouTube video. It could, but then I'd be 265. I think that could be a good video. Yeah, yeah. I think you- I turned 265 again.

And had a heart attack. Great. No, and avoided a heart attack, right? All this cholesterol helping you out. Oh Lord. The approach to that though I think is the opposite is you live in a caloric deficit for like six months and then you just you'll never be able to get full until you get like edema but before that you will not get full.

That's what they do? No that's what I do. That's not exactly what they do. I'm just saying because like I've experienced that so. Oh, that's exactly what they do. I'm just saying it because I've experienced that. So it's pretty incredible. Oh, let's quickly talk about this. What stuff, because you mentioned yogurt. I think more people are talking about it,

but gut stuff, right? So I love kimchi. There's also this, from the same company, it's this radish thing. It's kimchi-ish, but it's radishes instead. I've been drinking a lot of kefir. Yep, I love that too. Kefir's good.

I'll just, my girl doesn't really drink it much, so I'll just go to the bottle, drink a bunch of it a little bit before bed. Yeah, what else? What is, kefir, kefir, what, like, is it just like a, like? Fermented milk. Milk, okay. No, I wasn't sure, got it. It tastes a little sour, but it tastes great. Let your milk go bad, it'll be perfect for you.

Wait, actually, like, do people do that? That's amazing. I don't think... What do we do with all this spoiled milk? Let's just call it something fancy and then put a higher price tag on it. I don't think you can do that with, I don't think that'd be wise to do that with regular milk,

but, and some people might think it's even less wise to do it with raw milk, but I think if you wise to do that with regular milk, but, and some people might think it's even less wise to do it with raw milk, but I think if you were to do it with a milk, you would do it with a raw milk. Cause raw milk, I don't think, I don't know, it's weird, but I think raw milk would probably work. But anyway, kefir is awesome. Yogurt, cottage cheese, like I love all those things.

It's terms like fermented foods, I love, yeah, fermented anything, like fermented pickles, fermented vegetables, fermented onions, fermented eggs. Like, man, I just, I love all that shit. Really, really good. So wherever I can find it, I found some fermented, like in a jar, fermented quail eggs. They were like these little tiny eggs.

I had those too in Missouri. They were fucking ridiculous. They were so good. I was like, I'll just buy this and see what it's like. It was awesome. Yeah, those are really good. I got nothing as far as fermented stuff. There's a company that makes fermented kimchi pickles.

The problem is there's not enough in there. So you buy it and it's like five, six bucks, maybe six or seven bucks. And you just rifle right through it. You're like, oh man, I wish it had more in there. I've had that. What's that brand? Cleveland Kitchen. Yeah, those are amazing.

Yeah, they're good. Dude, you throw those on like, I don't know, throw them on some ground beef or something. I mean, you could put it on anything. It's so good. And exactly, what you just said right there is like my sister, she, you know, I was trying to tell her like,

you need to get some of this kimchi and stuff in your life. And she hates the taste. So I was just like, yeah, stick it on top of some meat. Just try to like put it on top of something you like. And then as she did that, she's like, okay, you know what, this really isn't that bad. But it's good for your gut. And having a bit of diversity in there is gonna be like,

yeah, it's not specifically calorie related, but it's health related. So it's a good thing. Go to the refrigerated section in the grocery store. And that's where you wanna buy like your hot sauces and your fermented stuff. If they have hot sauces in there, you'll find them, they'll have like probiotics and stuff.

They'll be like, really, they'll be pretty damn spicy, but I love all that stuff. Okay. Huge fan. I can't handle like crazy, crazy spicy, like some people can, but I love the spicy shit. What I like about like what you said about like adding the thing to something else

that you already like, is that she'll probably get to a point where if she has a hamburger patty without it, she'll be like, ah, this is lacking so much, right? So I need to do stuff like that. Kimchi burgers are fucking great. Really? Man. Freaking.

Or just get some pickles. Do you like pickles? Yeah, I love pickles. I just- Get some fermented pickles. You gotta, the jarred pickles that are on the shelf in the grocery store that aren't in the refrigerator, those are pickled and they're not fermented.

You wanna get the fermented ones that are in the refrigerator. Bubbies or. Yeah, absolutely. I haven't been able to find them, so, but I also. Gotta search around. I go to kind of shitty stores. Bubbies.

Yeah, so outside of that, right? Cause if you told like whatever the main thing that's like, I'm not your in your traditional shopping list, right? You're like, Hey, try this fermented this or that. What are some other ways that you can implement these things into someone's diet? Who doesn't have the palette that's quite ready for it yet. Maybe they can try some kombucha. There's like a lot of different versions of that.

So maybe at first they don't like it, but again, there's so many different brands, so many different companies. I would pay attention to how much calories are in some of those, because sometimes they have a lot, but a lot of times some of them only have like 30 calories, 70 calories, 90 calories, stuff like that. Be mindful about the kombucha too sometimes though,

because some of them have caffeine that you wouldn't expect. Oh yeah. It was a few years ago and I was like, you know, I Be mindful about the kombucha too sometimes though, because some of them have caffeine that you wouldn't expect. Oh yeah. It was a few years ago and I was like, you know, I was on a little kombucha kick and I looked at it and I was like, this has caffeine, I'm drinking this at 9 p.m. I'm like, this isn't good for me, right? So just be mindful of that when it comes to the kombucha.

I'm curious what you guys think about this though, because like, you know, I guess I'm kind of lucky. My mom like made me drink green juice when I was a kid and very quickly I was just like, well, this is good for me. So it doesn't taste great, but I know it's gonna have a good effect. Let me just down it.

And then I just started to learn to like it, even though it tastes horrible. So, you know, I think there's one thing when you're adult, when you know there's something that's good for you, I wonder, maybe, and I can only have my own experience with my own palette, but I just make myself swallow things down until I learn to like it, right?

But, but. You're gonna like that. You're gonna like it. Here, try stuffing this down your throat. Nice try, Diddy. But, no, nah. All right, edit the podcast, start over. Oh man, that man was such a predator, yo. Oh my God.

Did you see the clip? It was him and Mace in a music video and Diddy's just smiling, looking at his ass. It's so good. Did you see the one of Diddy and the dunk contest? Yeah, I said that to you. You said that to me? We were talking about how he gets on his ass. It's so good. Did you see the one of Diddy in the dunk contest? Yeah, I sent that to you. He sent that to me.

We were talking about how he gets on his toes. So Diddy was, you know when sometimes they put the ball up for the dunk contest? I don't know if Andrew's gonna- Oh yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, I think Andrew sent it to both of us. Yeah, when the guy jumps over, Diddy kind of goes up to sniff his balls a little bit.

He's just like, ugh. He's like, this is gonna be great. That man was horrible, man. So, I mean, I don't know. I wonder how crazy are people's palates? It's like, cause some people are like, I hate sardines, but how much do you hate sardines? Is it just cause they're a little bit oily?

Is it cause like you didn't like sardines for a while, but you eat them a little bit, right? Yeah, I went through a phase where I had at least one of those cans a day, and then you just, you know, fall off and then just, I need to go back. As we're having this conversation, I was thinking about that the whole time. For me, yes, it's just a lifetime of being like, you know, I don't like fish, right? Like just when you write something off, you write it off,

and you don't actually really know why you did it. Because I don't like the fishy smell, because I've had ribs back in the day that had a weird smell and it just reminded me that because they smelled like fish so then you just have this association with a fishy smell. Did those ribs give you food poisoning? I took one bite and I was like, oh these are spoiled. And my dad yelled at me because he's like, just eat your food! I'm like... and so he was like, they're not spoiled,

and he ate them, and he got super sick. So he was like, we revisited that several years later. You know, and he's just like, yeah, I shouldn't have. He's like, I was trying to make a point though, and I'm like, hey dude, I get it, parenting. But, so yeah, you associate this spoiled food with a smell. He's eating, and he's like, he's struggling. I'm gonna eat what we bought. Yeah.

It's like payback, motherfucker. He's spewing out of his fingers. Yeah. Men are so funny, dude, just because he didn't wanna fucking drop his ego, because he's yelling at his son. He didn't wanna like throw it out and be like, son, let's order some pizza, you're right. Yeah.

He didn't like, hell yeah, dad, that'd be great. He just couldn't admit, he couldn't fuck it. He couldn't tap, yeah, too much pride. That's great. Fast forward to learning all the stuff that we've been talking about, you know, DHA, all that stuff, and so it was that thing where I'm like, I'm gonna eat it,

because it's good for me. And it's like, okay, this actually isn't that bad. But then I started just putting just like one or two drops of lemon essential oils. And it totally converts the entire thing away from any kind of fishiness to like... Not like chicken, but better. Like, it's really, really good. And I don't need to mix it with anything. Like, I thought about like, oh, maybe I'll do rice the way you've explained it. And I'm like, nah, I just want to make this really easy and convenient.

Let me just put a couple of drops in here and then eat it that way. So for me, it was just the association with almost the way people think that healthy food is gross. Right? We know that to be completely incorrect. But when you think of what the normal everyday person that's not listening to the show is like, oh, healthy food just means like broccoli and, you know, salads and that sort of thing. Yeah. That's how I kind of associated fish is just like, oh, this is just gross no matter what, you know, you see like squid and you're like, yeah, I'm never eating that.

But it's like, hey, okay, how about some sardines that look nothing like that and are actually really tasty. So made that mind switch. And then now actually, you know, I made it a point, like I said, to have one can every day instead of like a snack or whatever. I just like, yep, it's about one o'clock, let me just go have this can of sardines. And I felt good. I think that's the way everyone needs to look at everything.

Everything in health needs to be looked at the way that you're looking at the fish. You're like, all right, I got to, like kind of like, not that you have to eat it because that's like too much of a bummer to like be in a position where you're doing a bunch of things that you don't like, but hey, it'd be a great idea for me to get outside

this morning and see the sun. Hey, it'd be a great idea for me to get outside and watch the sun set. It would be a good idea if I brushed up against a little bit of strength training today. It'd be a good idea if I kind of swallow the frog type of thing, right? You just go and you do it.

But if you look at everything as like a nutrient, rope flow is like a nutrient, lifting is a nutrient. Each thing is like, and let's gather a bunch of nutrients every single day. And we don't need to gather all of the correct nutrients every single day, but let's try to gather all the correct nutrients in terms of our mobility, our speed, our stamina, blah, blah, blah.

Grab all that together, maybe for the week, or maybe even just for the month, because even trying to land everything in one week is not always easy. So if you kind of just think about, let me just keep kind of circling the wagon over and over again, and keep making sure that I'm giving myself

or getting close to some of these nutrients and getting close to some of these opportunities to grow and expand, you're gonna continue to grow and expand and things don't have to be such a drag. You know, how many times we hear people say like, I didn't really want to do it today, but I did it. And I just kind of, I really despise that man.

I hate hearing that. I'm like, what the fuck? Why did you do it? Like just don't do it. I don't care. I don't want to. I think I saw a Tim Tebow post that the other day, like doing some squats and then there he is like hammering out some squats

with like 315 or something like that. And I'm like, just why, man? You don't have to barbell squat. You could have just called an audible. You could have went to the gym and said, Omaha, Omaha. And then just fucking did a belt squat or something. Or you could have made the workout more enjoyable. You could have said, I'm just gonna go outside

and check a football around today instead. And I just- It's what the greats do though, man. Man, I hate seeing the... It just makes me crazy when I see that all the time. I understand, I get it, because people are trying to get on the other side of like the mindset deal.

And they're trying to pull stuff out of them so I can understand it. They have a program they're following. But man, I don't like those programs. I think you should flush them down the toilet. Yeah, what you're saying right there though, like people, we all need to be taught, whether it's from a coach or whatever,

just how to call an audible and other options. Because I think sometimes, you know, I don't know about Tim's situation, but when somebody's looking at a program and they see that everyone's doing this, and then they're like, I have to do it too. And they're like, this is what the greats do. This is what the people that have big legs, blah, blah, blah,

this is what they all do. And even though it doesn't feel great, they just know, they don't realize that they don't have to do it. It's tough. It's tough. Cause you feel like that's the only, that like, if you don't do it, you're now weak or you're not making progress.

That's just not true. Right. Yeah. You feel like you're lesser than, you feel like you- Pointing at you. You didn't complete the mission for today. We were talking a little earlier about the foods

that we have in the house and kind of, you know, people sort of blame their kids like, oh, my kids. I just think that that's lazy. I think having a pre-packaged stuff for your kids and just pawning that off onto them, I think is a lazy and very unfortunate habit. I think it's the same as not paying attention to how much time your kid is spending on their tablet,

how much time your kid is spending in their room, how much time your kid is spending doing anything that you think ultimately just isn't great. You think that maybe potentially, you know, when I was a kid, it was like, you know, my parents didn't want me to watch too much TV, right? Like we didn't have all the same things, but video games and stuff were there.

And so like we had, you know, some of that, and I would get all the same conversations that you hear now happen then just with different stuff. But I, you know, fortunately for me, you know, I had friends on my block and we played football and we're outside a bunch. So it wasn't as big of a deal. But I think the idea that your kids, because you have kids, you have to have a bunch of highly processed junk in the house. Again, I think it's lazy. I don't expect everyone to go to some crazy degree and to meal prep everything and to always have fresh food and like, oh, I chopped up these apples. And that's probably not reasonable either. People have to make a

living. There's a lot of other things to do. Nowadays, there's two income households. So to do nowadays, there's two income households. So there's not always like one person waiting hand and foot to like serve the kids the right foods and nutrients and everything like that. But you could teach your kids about nutrition. You could teach your kids how to cook. You could say, hey, did you really enjoy that? Hey, next time I want to show you

like how to prepare that, how to cook that. You like those eggs a lot? Like what age can you do that at? Eight, nine, eleven? Like, you know, different kids are going to pick up things at different ages, but you could probably teach them how to at least partially take care of themselves with some stuff, for Christ sakes. Yeah, right.

I don't know what the age is, but I do know adults that can't like make a decent like breakfast Right, like so I don't know you can't really be too young in my opinion Quinn's 17 and just the other day she's like, I really love those bavettes. She loves the steak that we have and uh Then andy cooked it up for a couple times and she's like, how do I cook those up? So then now she knows how to cook them up Um jake started much earlier jake started like, I don't know, like 10 or 11, started cooking up his own eggs and stuff like that.

And he does that, like he's almost like a 80 year old man. Like he just does the same habit every day. He just watches. Same eggs. Yeah, he just like, he does the same thing every day, like all the time. It's kind of amazing to watch. One thing I'll say, and I think we've talked about

air fries on the podcast, but the experience, my sister's lost about 60 something pounds, right? In terms of like, she's minimized, stopped eating carbohydrates, and she's lost that weight rather effortlessly because of the food choices she's been making, but she learned how to use an air fryer, and that's been a hack,

because I think one thing that a lot of people do is when they do cook meat, they use a lot of oil. And when you think about the amount of oil that a lot of people use when they pan fry meat, et cetera, it's a lot of extra calories that you use to try to make this thing tasty. But when you put ground beef in an air fryer, season it, put it in, put fish in an air fryer,

season it, put it in steak, whatever, you're getting this tasty meat cooked perfectly, but at the same time, it doesn't have as many calories as the meat that you typically make, whether it's chicken, whether it's chicken wings, all these things, it has way less calories, and it's super easy to cook, because you just stick it in the air fryer,

go do your thing, come back, your meat is ready to eat, and it's perfect. And air fries aren't necessarily expensive, but when it comes to cooking the meat, because meat is gonna be a big protein source for you, I cook my ribs in an air fryer and they end up perfect. It's one of those things that it makes this type of food and it makes preparing it an extremely easy process.

You can cut a steak out of a frozen package and stuff it in the fucking air fryer and it comes out perfect. I mean, it's gonna come out a little better if you had some time beforehand to have the meat out and have it defrost a little bit better, but it comes out great. You know, and like we just,

to have that ability to be able to do that is awesome to help people like stay on point. Cause sometimes you forget, right? And you're like, oh, I should just stop and like get some in and out. You try any excuse to like go the wrong way, you're gonna make the excuse to go the wrong way. But now if you have an air fryer

and you just simply have some meat that's in your freezer, you can cook it up right away. And honestly for her, that was one of the reasons why she was having such a problem cause she was like, you know, I'm trying to cook all this meat and it's so difficult to cook, up right away. And honestly for her, that was one of the reasons why she was having such a problem. Because she's like, you know, I'm trying to cook all this meat and it's so difficult to cook, blah, blah. And I was like, you guys have an air fryer. She's like, I don't know how to use it.

Just show her how to use it real quick. Bam! Just like it just started happening. Game changer. Literally, it changed their trajectory, using an air fryer to cook meat. I take it for granted because I've been doing that for years and it's so easy that I'm just like, everyone doesn't know about this.

But there's a lot of people that don't know about air fryers. Yeah, the excuse of not knowing how to cook meat properly and the excuse of time, like, it really, really eliminates those two things, right? And then that's when you get like, oh, but Teflon and non-stick, it's like, well, you know, it's a little bit better than like fast food, like, which you it's a little bit better than fast food, which you don't really scoff at at all.

I mean, I put my shit on top of parchment paper in my air fryer. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, I use parchment paper, and it doesn't stick on anything. I don't know if parchment has plastic liner on it. I don't know. I don't know.

It's just another thing. Probably. I would assume so. But anyway, it's still healthier than going through the drive-through. If you're someone that's taking supplements or vitamins or anything to help move the needle in terms of your health, how do you know you really need them? And the reason why I'm asking you how do you know is because many people don't know their

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direction and we're not playing guesswork with our body. Andrew, how can they get it? Yes, that's over at MerrickHealth.com slash Power Project. And check out enter promo code Power Project to save 10% off any one of these panels or any lab on the entire website. Links in the description as well as the podcast show notes. Did you guys on this conversation, did you want to address the really big elephant in the room and that is tracking your food? Or do we want to leave that for another conversation? No, I think we can touch upon it for sure. I think, you know, um, not only tracking, but also like meal prep. Um, again, tracking meal prep.

If you're going to step on stage and you're going to be responsible to have a certain particular look and you're somebody that coaches somebody or you're someone that is actually getting on stage, maybe you do wanna pay attention to those things. Maybe being super diligent with those things is gonna be really important. But I found for myself to be able to stay in good shape that I don't need to do any of that.

I guess I would be like, I'd be making a mistake to say that I don't track it all. Because I, while I'm not using a calculator, or I'm not using Fitness Pal, my Fitness Pal, I'm not using like an app or anything like that. I'm still paying attention to what I'm eating. You know, I have like the Piedmontese steaks. Those are very lean. I choose to eat some leaner sources of protein most of the time, but

I'm also paying attention. I can't just eat the leaner sources because I'm going to like, you know, lose weight too fast. I'm going to, my hormones are going to get all whack out of whack. I need certain fat calories to do certain things. And so I am paying attention to, Oh yeah, I had, you know, potato earlier today. I don't really need the rice with this meal. So I'm sort of, I guess like auto regulating and tracking simultaneously, but I don't write anything down. And I also, I don't do traditional meal

prep. I don't, I'm not like, oh, I'm cooking everything on Sunday. However, most of the time, if I'm going to cook ground beef, I'll cook up, I'll cook up like a couple pounds of it, because I don't know if anybody else in the family wants it. And so I'll cook up a bunch of it. Sometimes I might hammer all of it. Sometimes Jake will have some of it and so on. And sometimes some of it ends up in the fridge.

And so therefore it's kind of like pre-prepped. We have chickens and so we have a lot of eggs. And so we're always trying to figure out what to do with our eggs. And so we are, we hard boiled eggs a lot. And so those might sit in the fridge a little bit. And then I always have yogurt and cottage cheese. Everything's like always around,

but I don't feel like I need to leave my home with a bunch of packed stuff, probably due to the lifestyle I have and the type of job that I have. I'm not gone for eight hours. Maybe if I had a manual labor job and I felt I was gonna tank in the middle of the day doing construction

or something like that, I would probably be forced to do something, manage things differently. But I mainly, if I am gonna eat in the morning, I'll eat in the morning and then I eat when I go home. And those are usually the two times that I get my food in. Yeah, you over the years, you've built that algorithm in your mind that lets you kind of understand this is how much I need to eat. This, when I have this potato, maybe this little bit of fruit, I'm good on my carbs. You're also extremely sensitive to how you feel. So,

like myself, you can probably feel on a certain day where, you know, you have some extra runs, or you, let's say you did a hard run the day before and some lifting, you wake up and you're like, I'm gonna eat some extra carbs today, right? I do think tracking can be useful for people who, maybe they have no experience, because you can, this is the thing, you don't have to track. You can do all of what we've mentioned,

get healthier through habits, through getting these processed foods out of your house, through like eating so that you actually feel full from the foods you eat. So making the right food choices so your food works for you. Making sure to get really good sleep. We didn't really talk about sleep much this episode,

but that's super important because good sleep is gonna make sure that you have the right hormonal signals to feel full when you need to feel full. And you don't get the wrong signals of hunger because when you're under slept, you're going to feel hungrier. So if you're doing these things, great. But some people, um, this is like if I'm working with somebody, I'll give them the option of you can use these habits or you can track because the tracking gives them that extra level of accountability or being aware of what they're putting in their mouth gives them an extra amount of

accountability because some people it's like, man, I'm not losing any weight, this and this gives them that extra level of accountability. Or being aware of what they're putting in their mouth gives them an extra amount of accountability. Because some people, it's like, man, I'm not losing any weight, this and this and this. And then they didn't realize how much they were snacking on healthy foods, right? Or how much of X food that they were eating. They don't realize it because they're not paying attention to it. They just think, oh, the rice is healthy, OK.

But they end up eating a lot of it, right? So it's one of those things where I think it can help people build the algorithm you're talking about because they're super aware. And they can be like, wow, this is this many calories? Where did all these carbs come from today? Well, I had some kefir and I had some fruits, I had some rice.

Oh shit, I had that bit of a snack, which was actually like 100 extra carbs that I didn't realize, okay, let me adjust. Whereas if you're just like going by how you feel, you're like, I'm making all these better food choices, but I'm still not losing weight because you're still not fully aware of how much food you're putting down.

And tracking isn't something that you need to do forever if you do choose to go down the road of tracking. It's just something that can give you a good understanding of what's in food and the amount of calories that you might be putting down so that when you stop tracking, you're a bit more hyper aware of how much you should be eating

and what these foods look like. Do either of you guys like order from restaurants or go to restaurants much anymore? Sam and I sometimes will like door-to-door sushi, but we don't like eating out. We'll get out, come to us. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, we might go to In-N-Out like once a month now.

Like that's been a huge change for us for a couple of different things, but almost never. I think it's a plague, I think, for a lot of people. I think a lot of people eat out or order food from restaurants. And sushi is probably like the least worrisome thing because it's not cooked in oil. But almost everything at a restaurant, they always call these things seed oils, but I like to refer to them as restaurant oils because that's where you're going to run into them. You're not going to run into them at your own home.

Like, I don't, I mean, maybe there's people that buy canola oil and like cook stuff in canola oil, but why would you ever, like, that just seems gross. A lot of people do. Yeah, a lot of people do, yeah. Yeah, because it's like a dollar for like eight gallons. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people cook their eggs in canola oil.

Like, a lot of people use canola oil. All right, well I retract that. My mom didn't know, my mom didn't know. When I was younger, she cooked some things in canola oil too A lot of people use canola oil. My mom didn't know when I was younger, she cooked some things in canola oil too. We didn't, she didn't know? It's part of recipes and stuff a lot of times when you're baking and things like that. So I kind of understand,

but you're gonna run into a lot more calories at a restaurant most of the time. If you cook up a steak at home and you have a potato and so on, especially if you're using like an air fryer, you're gonna have a steak have a potato and so on, especially if you're using like an air fryer, you're just gonna, you're gonna have a steak and a potato and you're gonna have 750 calories. You have that from a restaurant and you could probably,

it's probably gonna be an extra 500 calories or something like that. If you have it at a restaurant and they put bread and butter on the table, you're gonna have even more calories. And if you have salad, you're gonna have even more calories. I if you have salad, you're gonna have even more calories. I think we don't realize, you know,

that little thing of, you know, Caesar dressing or ranch dressing, even when you get it on the side, a lot of times people are using almost the whole thing. It's like, hey man, like, that's like 20 to 30 grams of fat. And you didn't have any nutrition because all you ate was like a bunch of lettuce basically. So you just had 20 to 30 grams of fat and it's not really moving us forward.

I guess it might take up some space in your stomach because there's some vegetables in there. So that may have been helpful. But that's where we get into like a lot of interesting conversations where it's like, hey man, I think it'd be great if you ate your veggies, but then we have to have the conversation of, hold on a second, how are you eating your veggies? If you're eating your veggies through a salad and you're a fat guy or a former fat guy, I know how fat guys eat salads.

They eat it with tons of ranch dressing on it. So you're gonna have to try to swap that out with something. And what are our options to swap it out with? They're not great. Use some apple cider vinegar or use balsamic vinegar. It's like, you could use some olive oil, I guess, and some vinegar, but you're still gonna be putting probably a lot of calories on there. So is a salad worth it when a salad is accompanied

by 15 to 20 grams of fat? That could be up for debate. That could be up to you to decide, but I would say, fuck no. I do like speed. And something that I do is, again, some of it is packaged, but Costco has great packaged mixed vegetables. What I'll do is I have two air fryers at home.

I have an air fryer grill and then I have a basket one that you can put something on top and you can put something on the bottom. Something simple that I love to do is I put fish on the top, fatty salmon, vegetables on the bottom, cook them at the same time. You have the oil from the salmon drip down into the vegetables. It comes out, it's so good. But now like the vegetables are,

there's not that crazy amount of calories in it, but it has like the little bit of the oil from the fish and it's a great meal. And I'm getting some good veggies in and some fish. And you can do that with a lot of stuff. I do the same thing with like a stir fry type stuff. It's got, you know, peppers and onions. I'll throw it in a pan.

I'll cook the shit out of it for a while. Sometimes I'll throw a little bit of tallow in there and then I'll throw some beef on there and just cook it all together. Great way to get some vegetables in there. Yeah, that stir fry package from Costco is so helpful. Like that's the main way I get a lot of my vegetables in now. But yeah, one thing about like restaurants, like they pull no stops to try to make the food as delicious as possible.

And that unfortunately means a ton of extra calories that you just simply don't need. I wanted to quickly just like be like an advocate for tracking the same things that you were saying, right? Like, hey, you don't know what you don't know. And I just think that it's crucial education that people need to obtain because like, you know, like you said, Mark, they might be dumping in 30 grams of fat and they're like, oh, that's fine. It's like, it's only 30. It's like, yeah, but times that by nine, that's your calories, right? So I don't track every day, but maybe once a month, maybe even once every other month, I might just track everything I eat that day because it's about what I ate the day before and the day before that.

And I'll just kind of do a quick little inventory check and make sure I'm not full of crap when I talk about like, oh yeah, I eat at least 200 grams of protein. I do that and sure enough, 200, 225 almost every day of protein. And then my calories are, you know, wherever they kind of sit where they may, but it's usually around 22, 23, 100 for the day. But again, that's not something I do every single day. But I think it's crucial information that people need to do once in a while or at least just get into the habit of doing it initially.

Because I hear the same things too, like, I don't know. I'm, I don't know how to lose weight. I keep trying this. I keep trying that. Like, oh, really? Well, like how many calories are you eating per day? It's like a loaded question because I know they don't know the answer, but it's like, well, I don't know. Then how do you know if you are eating more or less than you, you know, then is kind of like that threshold to gain or lose weight. or less than you, you know, than is kind of like that threshold to gain or lose weight. Go ahead. Let me add this in. Yeah.

A very cool thing that you mentioned there. Most people aren't variability junkies where they have to have a different meal every single day of the week. Like most people like you and me, and I think like all of us, like I eat a lot of the same shit. I love it. I eat a lot of the same stuff. And if you know about how many calories are in these same things, right?

It kind of gives it like one or two days of tracking some of that food, okay, now you know, right? And then if you have something else, but it's not something you have to do every single day, but if you have your staples like you do, Andrew, it's a good idea to understand how much is in those staples, right? Yeah, yeah, it's just overall good awareness.

You know, you think like, yeah, I eat probably enough protein and then you track it. And all of a sudden it's like, oh, maybe I'm not. You know, I went through this whole thing with my wife. I have no idea how this woman was even surviving. Right? Was she eating like 60 grams of protein a day? If that.

So I had her track everything and sorry, hopefully she'll be fine. She was eating like 800 calories per day, like perpetually. Like that's just what she ate. I'm like, now do you see why maybe you're not making progress, whether it be in muscle gain or even fat loss, right? Because your body, I mean, this is a whole nother topic about like starvation mode or whatever. I'm like, you might be actually there because you're not getting nowhere near enough nutrients. Like think about what you're doing to yourself right now. You are trying to run the car as hard as you can with no fuel.

So she's on program now and she's been tracking and she's been feeling a lot better. But there's a lot of people just like that. Maybe they're not under eating, but they're just so clueless when it comes to what they're actually taking in. So that's why I feel like it doesn't have to be forever, but it's really good practice to get into just to see where you stand right now. And then the beauty of it is you get to go from there.

Like, okay, here's where I'm at. I want to see what it's like to drop weight. Let me eat a little, whatever it is. And I'm not the biggest, like, calories in calories out is the end all be all. I think quality is more important than that. But again, you don't know unless you actually figure out where you are, right?

So, yeah. I think there's like, I think it's really helpful to learn to eat similar foods. And that's usually what you'll see from people that are in really good shape. People that are in impeccable shape, you'll see that they eat literally the same shit all the time, almost all the time.

However, that doesn't have to be you. You could still have a lot of variety. It's just so you gotta think outside the box a little bit Whenever anybody thinks of carnivore they just think of like meat and they just think of like red meat But there's like when we say meat there's there's fish meat. There's you know, there's buffalo meat. There's elk meat Like there's so many options. There's so many things that you can eat for myself I Eat a huge variety of foods

But when it comes to maybe like carbohydrates or something like that, it's just like a couple of the same fruits, a couple of the same potatoes, a couple, you know, just like rice, it's usually just like white rice. And so there's not a lot of variation with that. Same. Honey, right? But yeah, the meat, there's a lot of variation with that. Same. Honey, right?

But yeah, the meat, there's a lot of different meats that I eat and there's a lot of different ways that I eat the meat. I might make a burger. I might like make a patty, right? And then throw cheese on top of it. Or I might just have ground beef. I might have ground beef with,

sometimes I'll throw like pork panko in there and I will throw in a little bit of tomato sauce. So I might have something like that, which is kind of more of an Italian thingy. Or I might take that same ground beef and I might put like buffalo sauce in there, like red hot and butter or something like, you know, so there's so many different ways that I might eat

all of these same things. So you can have, you could still have a lot of variety, but I think one of the problems is most people, they're like, I hear this from a lot of women especially. I say, I can't eat the same thing every day. Like my husband just, he eat the same thing every day. I can't do that. But the problem is it's like, you're talking about

a burrito and then you're talking about pizza and then you're talking's like you're talking about a burrito and then you're talking about pizza and then you're talking, like you're talking about a bunch of like shitty food that you probably shouldn't be eating anyway. So you can have variety in your diet, but at some point you're gonna have to change, you know, change or swap things out.

And I think social media is kind of cool because there's so many different like recipes out there where you can kind of modify your meals and you can still have some of this stuff. But this is where this plays back into the hands of what you guys are talking about is like, it still might be useful to track because if you're making some of your own stuff at home,

I mean, you wanna start to look at it. I would say probably the biggest mistake that most people make, even though I'm kind of more on the low carb side, most people just eat too much fat. You know, if we can get, if you can get most people just in general to say, Hey, you know, do your best to stay like below a hundred grams of fat, unless it's like a bigger athlete that's got a lot of output, stay under about 100. Don't go below 50 because that's going to like jack everything up. But, but, you know, be under 100. It's like, you can kind of start to look at that and start to see what kind of progress you start to make from there. And if you're a smaller person,

you might have to lower the fats more. If you're a larger person with more output, you might have to bring them up a little bit. So, because you're talking about variety, so I just found this video to be pretty damn incredible. Actually, it's Lizzo, of all people. And so it says former vegan, and she's just going through like kind of like a day of what she eats. So egg white cups, cauliflower, hash browns and fruit. Oh, like, so she's basically eating a low fat, high protein diet all of a sudden. She's gonna piss off a lot of vegans.

A lot of, but she has dropped a good amount of weight. I'm so happy to see this. This is amazing. This video is actually really funny because she mentions like, Don't know what that is. How she's on this diet where she's eating meat and she's having all the success.

Oh, aqua water. But she's on this diet where she's eating meat and she's having all the success. Oh, awkward water. But she thinks it's healthier to eat vegetables mainly. And it's like, yeah, this is dope though. But yeah, buffalo chicken lettuce wrap. Everything was kind of shaking on that. That was pretty nice. Lizzo, come on, girl. I mean, damn.

Lots of pre-seed though. It's cool though, you know, people need to find a nutrition plan that is... Those are some loud things. That's going to be extremely delicious for them. Great. Grilled chicken, asparagus, and carrots. But hey, again, she's just having way more protein than what she probably was already having.

And then the vegans are like, no, she could have done it too. I'm like, well, but she's doing it now. And there's fiber in that, in those like sparrows and carrots. This is awesome. Well, everything she's eating, she probably really likes it. Yeah. And not one of those things was the exact same thing. So she has plenty of variety in her daily meals, right?

Yeah. And if I think about my day, I might, if I have breakfast, I would have a total carnivore in my coffee and then I'll have some eggs and then I would eat some, maybe a steak at dinner, but like it just, it rotates a lot. There's a lot of variety every single day. My wife cooks up a lot of stuff and so I eat a lot of stuff that she makes, but the primary focus of every meal is always a protein.

I think something that people should be aware of is that, and I mentioned this many times in the past, but your percentage of protein is important. So if you wanna get really lean and you wanna start to get like shredded, start boosting up that percentage more and more and more. And if, as you start to kind of climb the ladder, you get your protein to 30%, 40%.

If you can get your protein to 50%, you're gonna get very, very lean. You're also gonna like run out of energy though. You can potentially feel like shit if you do that for too long. But that's what a lot of the bodybuilders do. That's what a lot of the people that get on stage do. Um, they might have, you know, Bumstead might do, you know, 2000 calories or I think he even does less than that. He's like 1500 calories, but most of what he's

eating, you know, as the show gets closer and closer is primarily just protein and keeping those fats, uh fats more moderate, which is fucking hard to do. Very hard to do. I wanna read something real quick about this Lizzo thing because it's very interesting, the pop health type of viewpoint on food. She said, someone suggested I try a Japanese diet

because it's one of the healthiest diets in the world and has some of my favorite foods. After tests and research, I found that animal proteins helped me have more energy, lose weight, and help with my mental fog. While her current diet includes animal proteins and products, she shared that she hopes to adjust that one day. I aspire to one day be a raw, alkaline vegan. Until then, this diet has helped me reach my goals and help me feel good in my body. It's so interesting that even so, even though like, cause a lot of people, they find benefit on this, but they still have this, what is this goal of like wanting to be a vegan?

Like why- Japanese aren't raw vegan. No, no, they're not. Japanese eat a fuck ton of pork. But here in the US, it's like a lot of like, a lot of richer people and again, pop health, it's like get rid of meat, go vegan. It's one of those things where it's like,

real people aren't getting that benefit from this. And she herself, she's getting so much benefit from this. Why do you wanna go vegan? The celebrities go vegan, but it's like, why? I think they might be forced to. The old agenda is telling them to do that. But that's my conspiracy theory ass over here. That's awesome for her. I'm happy to see that.

I'm happy to hear that. You like see that's happening. Meat is where it's at. You know, and then like, you know, you vote with your dollars and the more that we put our dollars towards things that we think are healthier, I think the better off we'll be. We don't really have to worry as much about everybody else if we continue to put our money towards the things

that we believe in and that we think are awesome, because eventually over time, that will win. Eventually over time, the healthier stuff will take over the grocery stores, there'll be more and more of that. But if you don't and you keep falling victim to the cereal and to all the junk food that's around us, you're just showing those companies

that there's still a huge market for this in the billions and trillions perhaps, probably in trillions. And why wouldn't they continue to make it? This message from Cately Means and the brother and sister group that's out there kind of heading up this charge and talking about big food and the highly processed foods and stuff.

It's cool, but let's just choke them out. Like let's stop eating these foods or let's buy way less of them. They went to Congress and they're trying to have these companies or trying to have Congress step in, try to have the government step in and maybe ban certain ingredients and stuff like that. Because I guess there's some cereals like tricks or something like that, which might be made a particular way here in the US.

And then that same company makes it a different way for the UK. And healthier. And it has like, it has less ingredients. I think that's cool to kind of bark up that tree, but I think it's cooler to be way more intense than that. And if you really want to hit these motherfuckers, you have to hit them in their wallet.

You have to make General Mills and you have to make PepsiCo and you got to make these other people feel it. How much do we want to do that? It's probably too inconvenient to be honest with you for us to go all the way through with it, because then you have to figure out all the different other companies that they own. But you could take them out.

We could potentially take them out one by one, which who knows? I don't know. Maybe it's too complicated, but maybe we'll do it one day. Strength is never a weakness, weakness is never strength. Catch you guys later.

Bye.