I’m going to have to hunt that down, sounds awesome. I’ve tried thai food a few times before and I just never quite get the hang of it.
I meal prep twice a week, every week and it’s such a good habit when life is fairly predictable. I find it can be an issue when things go badly against plan. It helps that I really don’t mind eating the same thing for days in a row.
Yeah, day 3 of egg breakfast, turkey meatloaf and broccoli lunch, and chicken/veggie dinner with a protein shake thrown in, and I’m perfectly happy. By the time Friday rolls around, I can have something else for Saturday and do my shopping, and then prep a new set of meals on Sunday. I’m liking this routine thus far. Just gotta do it enough times where it becomes a habit.
I will never eat just plain meat and rice though. I could do it for a day, but I can’t do it all week. Just can’t.
Slap a bunch of BBQ sauce on it and it’s always delicious. This is my fallback meal if I’m ever too lazy to make something fancy.
I used to think this, but I’ve had the same chicken breast in the same packet mixed sauce over microwave steamed veg every thursday/friday/most Saturdays for about a month without a problem. The packet sauce mix is pretty awesome though, even my missus can’t fuck it up.
I found some marinades and simmer sauces at the store. I’ve been slow cooking chicken for six hours with a bottle poured over the top. I shred it at the end.
This week I was lazy and threw frozen chicken breasts in the Instant Pot for an hour and it still turned out alright. I eat it plain or in a wrap at work.
Deadlifts
Warmup with 135, 185, 225, 275, 295
315x10
225x20
Leg extensions
170x20
210x10
Hip belt squat machine
2 plates per side 1x10
Seated Leg curl leaning forward for stretch
110 1xfailure, like 15 or so reps, stopped counting
How’d you like the belt squat?
Good! I have had a posterior pelvic tilt a lot of my life, leading to slouched shoulders and fucked up SI joints, and realized some time back that especially with back squats, it was REALLY hard to go into the hole without arching my back (<3 double entendres) a bit. Being able to reach forward and sit back really kept my spine neutral. Plus, after deadlifts and fairly heavy leg extensions it didn’t take a lot to give me a good quad burn.
Only problem is some idiot was using it before and loading weight on it to half squat, and wasn’t paying attention to the fact that the loading mechanism was wrenching the support up off of the ground. The only reason this was happening is because there are slots at the end of the machine to hold plates - not where you load them to squat, just to hold them - and those slots were empty. So before I started I threw one of the 100 lb plates we keep on the leg press on each side of it, and then it stopped moving.
I cant even imagine how such a bowl would hold its shape for a reasonable length of time at room temperature, let alone what you would put in it.
Just binged read the past 600 posts or so. Training, recipes with dad stories sprinkled in and the occasional callout (ehem WR casual PL), well count me in!
I like how this log ends up getting used for all manner of topics unrelated to @flappinit 's actual training. Now it’s the Food Porn thread. Reminds me I need to go make a metric ton of chili.
There are a LOT of logics that have way more off-the-wall stuff, haha. I like it, though. Enjoy the banter and the bullshit!
A friend gave us some local ground sausage and I cooked it up, whipped eggs before putting them in the muffin tin, and sprinkled the sausage all over them @timber
Ha dam right them things are great. I make them every now and then and usually smash one with about 4 white bricks
Once you get into a routine it’s so much easier. We have probably 8-10 staples that we make and I like all of them. Hardly any thought anymore and I love it!
Hey share what your staples are if ya don’t mind. @flappinit don’t care that we are crashing his log lol
I already put the cottage cheese fruit thing.
Here are some more.
Most are just food items or sides not complete dishes. Then I can mix and match throughout the week as I see fit.
Cubes red and sweet potato. Not a big sweet potato fan so this is a way I figured out to get I’m included. Just cut raw red and sweet potato into small cubes. Sprinkle with salt pepper and garlic powder. Bake at 400 for 24 minutes. Flip and another 24 minutes. Make sure to use some kind of either parchment paper or non stick thing or it will stick really bad.
Cauliflower tots. Microwave a bag of riced cauliflower. Squeeze as much water out as possible. Mix in 1 egg, salt, pepper, and cheese if you wish. Put in mini muffin tins with non stick spray and bake on 400 until they look crispy
Instapot shredded chicken. Season chicken how you want, put in instapot, fill with broth. 10 minutes high pressure. Shred and pour about 1/2 the broth back in
Tequila lime shrimp
Mix shrimp, salt, pepper, cayenne, garlic, lime juice, Parmesan cheese. Cool I’m skillet with 1 tbsp olive oil. Once almost done flambé with tequila and crisp those suckers up. I like to make these spicy
Bedtime shake
1 scoop whey
2 tbsp pb2 powdered peanut butter
1/3 package sugar free cheesecake pudding mix
Ice,
Almond milk
Liquid stevia
Fat free whipped topping.
Blend to a creamy goodness.
Damn now I’m hungry and I just ate
Lots of people have said that about the food thing - how is food any less important than training? And for me - a literal hardgainer (and I don’t mean I can’t gain weight, because I can and it’s not an excuse not to, it’s just a reference to the fact that I find it tough to eat enough to maintain over 200 lbs and found it torture to get here, and some people gain weight just looking at it) organized eating is the only way to make sure I get adequate nutrition, in the same way that overweight people can use it to make sure they’re not overeating. I love food, but eating to not be skinny has made me hate eating many a day.
What’s your height n weight @flappinit
I feel about the same way
