Agree on the ribs. They are hard to beat!
I also hear you on the Maltitol. That is a lesson you only need to learn once. 
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I hate this town! Lol, I have been once, roadtripping across the country and my serpentine belt snapped at like 2am. Felt like I was in a horror movie, rolling up to the only mechanic. The whole town lacked color or vibrance, except for city hall that was brand new with perfect grass. Sat down in shop and there were over 100 M&M machines and the lady working the desk just filled each one of them the whole time I was there, not saying any words.
great pickup, @T3hPwnisher, Iâve been wanting one for a long time, but canât find them in good shape at a good price.
This is so true. Me and a few other guys like to do 10 minute + rounds, but most have a good 2 minutes, then smash or get smashed. Our coach has picked up on this and now we do timeless rounds until he says we are done. Thatâs always a Russian roulette of hoping you donât get paired with a beast.
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By the time I stopped regular BJJ training my conditioning was worse than it was when I began. I wasnât doing @T3hPwnisher level workouts, but I was doing lots of pretty hard lifting with lots of kb swings and pool sprints.
After a few years I could roll longer and better because I knew some grappling and didnât move so inefficiently, compared to when I started. My actual gas tank wasnât as big as it used to be.
I was reminded of this when I completed against a 400 lb dude. I was 290 or so at the time. 20 minutes smoked me bad.
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You missed noticing the two houses of ill reputation, bathed in neon?
@dchris Hey thanks man! I was pretty obsessively scouting the facebook market to find it. Just kept typing âConcept 2â into the search bar until one showed up at the right place and the right place. It was listed for 50 minutes when I leapt on it, and I was worried I was too late,haha.
AM WORKOUT (0510 wake up via Valkyrieâs alarm: rough night of sleep due to dog)
12 LABORS: STEALING THREE OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 5, Workout 2
âOXYGEN DEBT 101â
4 rounds of
- 200m sprint-30 seconds rest-200m sprint-30 seconds rest-200m sprint
- 3 min rest
Notes:
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Just continues to be the right call each week. Really felt like I got my moneyâs worth on the first set of each round: focused on picking my feet up high and striking midfoot vs heel. Still hitting this up in my bearfoot shoes, as I feel like it forces proper technique on me. Was definitely feeling my lungs breaking on this: really finding my ability to push hard.
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Also got in a 3-ish mile walk last night after dinner, and another round on the sandbag carry and throws. The pick up on the sandbag is getting more and more natural, which has been the goal of the frequent training. The more touches I get, the more mundane it becomes. It dawned on me that what Iâm doing is very âEasy Strengthâ, for though Iâm exceeding the 10 reps total per day principle, my weekly total reps are about the same by training 3x a week vs 5, and then Iâm getting in 1 round of loaded carries each day as well, along with the prioritizing of walking. Itâs funny how we can use so many different names for the same principles.
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Will post the breakfast photo during an end of day recap, but it was almost the exact same thing as yesterday: I just added 1 more egg white, and I forgot to throw my daily liver serving onto the plate as well: Iâll need to make sure I get that in before the end of day. Tonightâs menu is piedmontese grassfed New York strips and eggs. I was reflecting on how unique it is that Iâm eating egg whites mixed with beef tallow: taking out the fats from the yolks and replacing them with fats from another animal. Itâs honestly just the prohibitively high cost of pastured eggs that limits me from using more whole eggs per meal. We already bought 7 dozen to get me through this week: the Valkyrie is also an angel for putting up with my shenanigans.
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My gum sobriety streak continues. This is day 5. I went without it before my sprint, whereas I typically have it for cardio based workouts. I didnât realize how addicted I was to the stuff until I stopped using it. I find myself really wanting a piece during certain parts of the day. Itâs funny, given how people use gum to give up smoking.
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On a similar note, I had no evening protein feed last night. I wasnât hungry, so decided not to do it. I still did the middle of the night shake, but this Maximum Definition Diet experiment is really getting pretty interesting. My digestion is significantly improved having cut out the very last little bit of extra stuff I was consuming. I also have meant to update that the pork cracklin was slashed out of my diet once I started doing Operator, and thatâs been an easy trend to continue. I was too reliant on it. Next gaining phase, Iâll be sure to keep that out.
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Tang Soo Do on the schedule tonight. Itâs basics week, which can often be a good workout.
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Out of boredom, lemme calculate what this breakfast shakes down to.
I paid $4.99 per pound for the lamb, had a pound of it this morning, so $5. Vital Farms eggs are about $7.50 a dozen around here (7.39), so each egg is about 60 cents, so call that $1.80. I use a serving of beef tallow (technically a little less, but weâre making this simple). The stuff I use is 13.89 for 22 servings, so one serving is 63 cents (round it down to 60). 5 egg whites is about half a carton from Costco. Those have gone up in price, at about 15 dollars for 6 cartons, so I spent about $1.25 there. Iâm not going to figure out the cost of duck fat spray, because duck that.
So $8.65 for breakfast.
Nutrition:
Beef tallow: 14g of fat, no protein/carbs
3 VF eggs: 15g fat, 18g protein
5 egg whites: 25g protein, no fat/carbs
1lb lamb: 68g fat, 84g protein
Comes to 97g fat and 127g of protein, total of 1381 calories. Honestly pretty solid for 2 meals a day.
And, for funsies, what could $8.65 buy me for breakfast âon the outside?â
$8.49 will get me a âBig Breakfast with hotcakesâ from McDonalds, so Iâm saving 16 cents!
Just like mom used to make!
With that, I get 1340 calories, which is surprisingly close to what Iâm eating. Macros are 36g of protein, 158g of carbs (48 of which are sugar, 41 added, and only 5g of fiber) and 63g of fat.
And, of course, here are the ingredients.
I had to post 2 photos because the page was so long I had to scroll.
Contrast this with the ingredients of my breakfast:
Lamb
Egg
Egg white
Beef tallow
Duck fat
Honestly pretty eye opening. And, of course, I know that, after smashing that McDonaldâs breakfast, Iâd be hungry again in a few hours, whereas I wonât need to eat until dinner tonight, which will be steak and eggs.
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Good break down. Pretty eye opening. Eating good really doesnât cost THAT much more dollar wise and what you might spend a little more on I am sure you make up on with lack of medications, life span, etc.
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@shaneinga 100%! And, in truth: Iâm saving money. As I wrote up: after eating that McDonaldâs breakfast, I KNOW Iâd be hungry come lunch time, wherein Iâd spend probably the same amount of money for another disaster meal. You can effectively take the cost of my breakfast and cut it in half and call it âbreakfast and lunchâ, or, given how we tend to eat as Americans âbreakfast, lunch and 2 snacksâ.
And along with that: Iâm eating incredibly bougie with my vital farms eggs. Thatâs a personal choice. You can DEFINITELY get eggs for cheaper, which we know for sure McDonaldâs is, haha.
However, I realized I DID omit one ingredient from my list on my breakfast: salt. Shame on me. Iâm a processed food shill.
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Yep. Back when I was fat, well, fatter, my breakfast was 2 sausage, egg, and cheese croissants from Burger King with hashbrowns and a coke.
Lunch would be a Quarter pounder with fries and a coke. Dinner would usually be some kind of pizza, or Chinese take-out. Weekends would be that, but dinner would be wings and beers.
I remember when I started tracking cals I was like well no wonder I am fat. Haha.
Eating lower carb, single ingredient foods has definitely helped to curb my appetite. Not snacking is key and I am getting better at it. This saves money, cals, and less to think about through the day.
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Oh man, my âglory daysâ of fast food gaining are still a point of conversation in my household, haha. I was in a similar way: 3-4 sausage biscuits from BK for breakfast, 3 double doubles from In n Out, or 6 Double stacks from Wendyâs, or 4-6 Cheesy Gordita Crunches from Tacto Bell for lunch, and then a triple entree orange chicken with fried rice from Panda Express. I fully bought in to the Dave Tate early 2000s bulking plan. And there I was thinking I was gonna be jacked!
I DID get pretty damn strong pretty damn fast eating that way, but it was definitely one of those âin spite of myselfâ sorta things, and the truth was I was just a young kid who finally got a steady income and no parents to tell me no, so I lived like an unsupervised child. I also had a wonderful new bride who loved me much and was more than willing to cook and bake to my every whim. Always one of those âif I could go backâ sorta things, I woulda just been smashing tri tip (I was living in Central Coast CA at the time) and eggs, but I had it in my head that cooking was âhardâ.
less to think about through the day.
I am REALLY digging this about the Maximum Definition diet. Itâs just an even stricter version of what I did before, but itâs just cleared up so much bandwidth. âShould I add cinnamon to my beverage?â âIs it meat or eggs? Donât eat it.â âShould I chew some gum?â âIs it meat or eggs? Donât eat itâ
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Iâm sorry, but what is that? Pancakes, with syrup right next to a burger patty, some eggs, hash browns and whatever that beige brick in the back is? That looks genuinely stomach turning.
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Breakfast sausage patty, and that brick in the back is a biscuit, haha. Very interesting to see a brit call this breakfast stomach turningâŚ
But that said, Itâs also interesting to consider that the nutrition facts presuppose that you use ALL the syrup and butter provided, which seems absurd to me until I watch just HOW much of that stuff people will put onto pancakes. Like, they already have âcakeâ in the name: you donât need to add more sugar and butter to it!
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Iâve never really known what an american biscuit is, but I think its the mixture of sweet pancakes and syrup with the savoury meat and eggs that makes me feel a bit ill. I understand one or the other, but not both.
And for the record, while British food is almost all terrible, a full english breakfast is the best breakfast by far, assuming calories arenât an issue (although the fried tomatoes can stay in the kitchen)
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Apparently, itâs quite an American thing to have a breakfast that is basically a dessert. And whatâs funny is how normal it seems to me until itâs pointed out by others, but pancakes and waffles with syrup, chocolate chip muffins, overly sweet breakfast cereal, cinnamon rolls with icing, all manners of breakfast pastries, etc, are just considered a ânormâ that will go alongside your eggs, bacon, and sausage. And yeah, I realize in your side, biscuits are what we would call cookies, whereas Iâm not sure youâd have something similar to our biscuits here. It serves a similar function as a dinner roll.
And, when push comes to shove: Americans will just keep the sweet stuff for breakfast and get rid of all that unhealthy meat and eggs. Here is a photo of what we were told was a âComplete and Balanced Breakfastâ in the 90s
A bowl of chocolate, a giant glass of liquid diabetes ala orange juice, a glass of milk, and 2 slices of bread with butter.
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Back in college I ordered five McChickens from McDonals, for $5+ tax. Nearly 1,800 calories put down in less than 10 minutes.
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I did the same thing with those 6 double stacks from Wendyâs. I made the unfortunate decision to eat them in front of my wife, therefore killing all sexual attraction she had ever felt for me up until that point.
âŚthatâs why I waited until she was away on business to tackle that 5 pound cheeseburger challenge, haha.
And Iâm sure you were hungry soon after that âmealâ as well.
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I am down with everything on this plate but whatever those dark black circles are and the beans. Whats up with the beans? 
That is black pudding, which I recently learned about in an episode of âNo taste like homeâ, which, despite in no way resembling anything we call pudding, still sounds pretty tasty.
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Iâll pass. 
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Brits will definitely do that too. Itâs not for me, but i get it. Its the mix of syrup and meat/eggs that i find really confusing.
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