@barley1 @T3hPwnisher it’s not oatmeal, but I really, really like grits. I’ll crave a bowl of plain grits - I don’t need salt, butter, cheese or any of it.
In fact, I’m headed to coastal GA right now and I’m already excited about breakfast tomorrow.
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Do you think you could eat enough grits to gain weight if everything else was on point?
I also like oats, rice, potatoes, grits–but find myself stuffed quickly.
I jumped into this thread originally to suggest it’s hard, at least for me, to eat huge quantities of single-ingredient foods. I’d struggle to eat six cups of oats and seven scoops Metabolic Drive in a day…which would shake out to roughly maintenance, I think.
Seeing the trainwreck this thread turned into, your comment about craving carbs seemed the more interesting direction to pursue.
Anyhow, I hope tomorrow your plate runneth over with precisely the amount of grits that will help you meet your current goals, whatever those may be.
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Great question. I really don’t know. I am somewhat willing to try.
I’ve said before, the best threads are like old Simpsons episodes: the plot takes a giant pivot from the open.
That was hilarious. Thanks!
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. . . bless your heart.
On a serious note,
Thems my stomping grounds. Check out Southern Soul BBQ on St. Simons. It’s probably the best in the country.
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Whereabouts?
I was down in SC last weekend and had grits for the first time. Haven’t stopped thinking about them since.
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Lived in Brunswick and SSI for a few years, I still have family there and visit pretty often.
You need shrimp and grits. Trust me.
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Fried catfish and grits and eggs is a winner too.
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Welcome to the team!
Nice! We lived outside Savannah for years and got married here.
Correct.
Also correct!
Eating out of boredom/ emotion is a lifelong problem.
I think there is a danger to ruin the diet with fat from dairy and plant based stuff.
About the nuts and nut butter/ cream - I will just avoid to buy them, especially the cream.
But, a handful of peanuts is the easiest and cheapest way to consume something when u are out of home and satiate yourself
Unfortunately a pack of peanuts (100 gr) is 600 calories.
There is a danger to overeat with fats not tracking.
F.ex I finished my meal with another gross mix:
- Less than 100 gr dairy sour cream, 20% fat.
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons erythritol + some liquid sweetener
- As a filler/ thickener, some plant based stuff u disagree with:
- sesame seeds
- wheat bran (~60% carbs, but it is mostly complex and fiber.
- coconut flakes (tastes kind of dry but it is actually very high fat and about 600 cal’s/ 100 gr)
I filled the sour cream bucket a bit more than the half, it is 400 gr bucket. Did not measure the weight, the bran and flakes and sesame are low density.
Given I felt great from this dessert, I guess I ruined my deficit… When on deficit I feel like SHIT but I don’t feel like shit now… 
(Guilty??)
The rest of the meal was a chicken leg (with skin) some dried pork sausage, and… mayonnaise which contains a lot of plant based oil.
Particularly this brand, I suspect it is made of highly processed fats.
And I must drink a protein shake to get closer to your protein recommendations, but I am not hungry at all …
I think this is probably more mental than you think. I would venture to say there probably aren’t any noticeable differences from being in a deficit for a single day.
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So Am I on deficit at all… 
These days I had the ‘more oxygen’ feel and I haven’t cheated with carb dense foods since tuesday.
But today it is suspiciously ok, just two meals, the dessert I described and lagging with the protein a lot …I had just the morning shake .
Interesting you think this after I have said it to you multiple times 
We have seen what easy and cheap living has gotten you.
Or eat more meat and less of that other stuff
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You’re not losing weight so the answer is likely no, you’re not in a deficit.
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I feel like you’re messing with us at this point
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He is and people will not stop responding.
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It is really the easiest and cheapest and fastest way to get a meal, when u go somewhere with no food prepared…
A pack of 100 gr peanuts makes u full
And we see exactly what happens when we are unprepared and decide to go with the easiest, cheapest and fastest option. That’s how most people live
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It is not generally impossible to lose weight with 1 high fat meal of 600 calls (the peanuts).
Btw I never managed to consistently lose 2 kg a month (the 1 pound a week, -500 cal a day thing).
It was rather 1 kg, or total of 12-15 kg per year, incl the first weeks water loss.
At some point I was losing that with a chocolate a day … (Preferably 70% cocoa and above, 100 gr bar)
So I was still cheating and I didn’t have any protein shakes (I guess I barely reached 100gr of protein) but now it seems to get harder
How much u lose per month and how much per cutting cycle and how long is a cutting cycle?
(This is a question for everyone)
Provided u already did the initial weight loss, from overweight to a lean state, which I still haven’t done.
I guess I am ~halfway to it from my worse, or a bit more.
I am not going to waste my time writing out the details, or your time reading it. You are incapable of doing what I did to go from “off season” to the stage.
The first two weeks before initiating full blown contest prep, I usually weighed about 245lbs. I cleaned up my diet (no junk food). My weight usually dropped to about 240lbs. During the next 8 weeks I would drop to 218lbs. That comes to about 27lbs in 10 weeks: an average of 2.7lbs per week.
(At one time I allowed my weight to rise to 255lbs, but found that anything over 245lbs caused my sleep apnea to get dangerous when driving.)
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