I’m lazy so I eat the skins. I just cube them, coat them in olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe some garlic powder, and throw them in the oven, air fryer, or a foil bag on the grill.
From what Google AI told me, most potatoes are pretty starchy and roasting to cook (my method) dries them out and makes that worse. You can then multiply the starchy effect more if you let them cool down before you eat them.
They haven’t always done this to me. I’m not sure what changed in my gut. I used to prep a bag of potatoes nearly every week back when I was a police officer carrying around my 6 Pack Abs lunch box.
They haven’t always done this to me. I’m not sure what changed in my gut
Nothing may have changed: you may have simply finally reached your toxicity threshold on this.
That has happened to me with almonds. Specifically almond butter. I would eat spoonfuls of it just fine. Then one day I got gas. Then it was runny bowels. Then it was EMERGENCY runny bowels. And then, one day, I couldn’t breathe after a spoonful. It just built up over time.
I’m not sure I want to run the experiment again, but it seems peeling and cutting every little blemish away might help. But if the achievement is less suffering instead of no suffering, then it’s still no good.
And who has a place to store potatoes at 41-46 degrees F in the dark? I’m just not ready to commit that much effort to potatoes.
Also, why the heck don’t french fries bother me? Is it the peeling and frying at a high temp?
And who has a place to store potatoes at 41-46 degrees F in the dark? I’m just not ready to commit that much effort to potatoes.
Oh yeah, Bill definitely has some extreme measures in there, haha. I look at it on a spectrum of “good, better, best”. The BEST thing to do would be to follow his protocol as laid out, but absent that, a good thing would be to at least skin them.
And yeah, just as you identified: the fries are skinned and then they cook the crap out of them to kill whatever COULD be on them. Which, of course, introduces a whole host of DIFFERENT problems to deal with. But it’s why our grandparents all cooked veggies until they were just mush. Our ancestors all figured out that if you DON’T do that, the plants fight back. But we got stupid and into this whole “raw food” craze under the auspice of “that’s how we USED to eat, it’s natural!”, only to discover that our forefathers learned early enough to cook and detoxify this stuff.
Stan Efferding has sold me on the efficacy of including potatoes in the diet, or, his case, A potato.
Lower half is still wrecked from squat day. Planning to hit my OHP workout and the missed sled workout after school. Tomorrow will be trap bar deads, but I probably won’t do much else since I’m still worn out. I also plan to play basketball Saturday morning and I’d like to be able to move.
Scale said 231.2 again this morning, but at least it’s consistent. I’m also not hungry and it’s 9am. My stomach hasn’t growled yet so maybe last night’s choices will help fuel a successful day. My oldest had the stomach bug (still on antibiotics for strep from last week) so I ran by the store to get some essentials for her recovery. I spotted a rack of pork ribs on sale for $12 so I snagged those and threw them in the oven for dinner (pre-marinated cook-in-the-bag style). I probably ate half the rack and went to bed feeling full (plus some greek yogurt mixed with protein powder). Hopefully the full feeling lasts deep into the day. Even if it doesn’t, I didn’t bring food so I’ll just have a shake or protein bar if I feel like it. Working out immediately after work ensures I stay busy until about 5pm and then it’ll be time for dinner which is perfect.
See if your kiddo wants some greek yogurt too. Broad spectrum antibiotics kill ALL bacteria, to include the good stuff in our guts. The greek yogurt can help rebuild that population.
Good to hear on the hunger front! I’ve got 2 racks of pork ribs in the freezer calling my name as well…
If you have a pressure cooker, you can achieve a similar timeline with the raw ribs. They’re not the same as smoked, but definitely good enough for a weeknight meal.
I pulled that off once quite a few years back for my personal Super Bowl party. I’d say the biggest difference was that I had to cut them up to fit them in the Instant Pot. I’m pretty sure I just poured BBQ sauce over before cooking them and they were great.
I also grabbed a corned beef brisket last night. I have the oven, pressure cooker, and a pellet smoker outside. Any cooking suggestions?
If you go with the smoker option, you’ll want to soak it overnight in water beforehand, to reduce some of the salt. Otherwise, it will, apparently be too salty. Although, also, if you smoke it, you no longer have corned beef: you have pastrami. Which isn’t a bad thing at all.
I picked up a few points recently that I’m curious what I’m going to do with. I may try a sous vide experiment.
I prefer the pressure cooker to the oven, given those 2, if the goal is to produce a corned beef.
Sled (make-up for Tuesday)
Rogue sled + 45 lbs
Alternate pulling/pushing 25m x 5 each Time: 9:54 Hit the goal of 10 minutes, but the variables weren’t the same so I’ll stick with this weight until this is repeatable.
OHP
bar x 10
110 x 5
125 x 5
140 x 5 OHP FSL
110 x 5 x 5 all sets with Pull-Ups
BW x 7 x 5 sets
BW x 6 x 3 sets
Pec Deck Machine
175 x 10, 6
160 x 6
Rev Fly Machine
160 x 15, 12
Curl Machine
110 x 20, 8 Big dropoff there…
OH DB Extension
35 x 10, 10 ea
Back Extension
BW x 15
Now it’s time for me to suck it up and do my homework for my last assignment for the current college course. I’m really struggling this week.
High Handle TBDL
135 x 5
225 x 5
295 x 5
330 x 5
370 x 5 FSL
295 x 5 x 3 sets
Jumps mixed in with deads. Jumps
30" x 4 x 3 sets
36" x 2 x 6 sets
Hang Power Clean
205 x 3 x 3
Back Extension
35 x 15 x 2
Decline Crunch
12, 12 This was the Titan adjustable bench set to decline. It doesn’t allow you to flex your hips like the decline set-up at the Y. It actually stretches everything out. I felt like my hip flexors and abs were lengthened past their resting point.
That’s all, folks. Today was day three of surviving on protein shakes alone during the day. Weight on the scale started with 229 today which is the goal, but I’m run down. Treating myself to some fuel tonight. I already finished off the pork ribs from Wednesday, ate about 8-9 leftover meatballs from last night, and some chips and salsa. The oven just dinged indicating the lasagna is ready. I’m also about to throw a veggie pizza in the oven. Don’t worry, I’m sharing with the family. Basketball tomorrow morning so I’ll burn through most of it.
That is correct.. There’s no rhyme it reason to it. I just throw it in on occasion. I survived day one. Woke up not hungry on day two which is rare so I tried it again. Same for today so I did it again. I think it’s put me in a great place to stuff myself tonight and play basketball tomorrow.
Played basketball this morning and sucked. It’s so frustrating. It’s one thing to make mistakes or bad decisions; it’s a completely different level of frustration when you ACTUALLY SUCK. I’m just not good anymore and that’s hard to accept. Luckily I can practice and hopefully improve my shooting. There are some physical aspects of basketball that I’ve lost, but a jump shot survives time. I just need to find mine.
On a different note, we attend church on Saturday afternoons. Today’s message was number one of a new series called “Magnifying God”. It’s been awhile since I had a gut check at church, but today was it. Pastor talked about what it means to magnify something. It means to make it appear bigger and in the context of the message he talked about what we make bigger in our lives. Ask a person what’s important to them and they’ll tell you, but often our actions don’t back up our words. He used scripture written by Paul where he said “For to me, to live is Christ.” Pastor asked us to fill in the blank. For to me, to live is _____________.
What’s in the blank? I don’t really have a good answer right now. I might be able to say work, but even though it consumes time, I don’t think it fits. If I think about what consumes my brain the most, I might have to say it’s training. And I don’t like that. This cut has flipped that old switch where I get obsessive because I struggle to get results otherwise. I’m not saying that what I’m doing is a bad thing; I just need to figure out how to get here without the obsessive part. I also want to figure out how to put important things in the important parts of my life.
Yes and yes. I think it sits a little heavier if I do 1.5 or 2 scoops per shake. I also feel like it blends a little thicker compared to whey protein alone if the amount of water/milk is the same.
