That’s black pudding, it’s a type of blood sausage. A little bit of animal fat, blood and (usually) some oats. Its far less flavourful than you’d think.
Thats a pale British version of baked beans. Haricot beans in a watery, insipid ketchup-like sauce. They are absolutely OK. They’re fine. I imagine baked beans from a BBQ place is better, but unfortunately that doesn’t exist over here.
I’m thinking you’re thinking you’re supposed to mix the eggs and meat with the syrup… That’s not something that’s often done. They’re just existing in proximity to each other.
Although we DO have maple sausage/bacon, so there’s that.
Always washed down with a L sprite, back when all drink sizes were $1. Then home for a pint of Ben N Jerrie’s.
Man, if it wasn’t for my wife, I’d be way over 300lbs. She was disgusted when she came home to two empty points in the trash. She’s like Sherlock Holmes scoping out my eating behaviors while she was gone.
Those a fried circles of absolute deliciousness. It’s not a proper full English breakfast without black pudding.
@dagill2 that breakfast photo got me way more excited than it should have. Thanks
Is it weird that I’m kind of surprised their eggs are actually eggs?
@atlas13 It’s not weird you’re surprised about that at all, haha. It definitely doesn’t match expectations. It’s surprising the things that ARE “good” at McDonalds. Like the quarter pounder patties are just beef with salt…although the “salt” at McDonald’s DOES contain sugar…so there’s that.
Because of that video, I actually check the salt packs whenever I go out somewhere…and so far In n Out Burger is the only place that has just salt in their salt packs. How wild. Trust no one, haha.
Definition Diet Meal recap. Already laid out what breakfast and dinner were, but here is the photo.
Not pictured is the extra 6oz of steak I accounted for, which came from the leftovers from the kiddo and the Valkyrie. I also went with 1 more egg this evening, as I was feeling it.
The sugar content makes people Cuckoo for Coco Puffs 
@KonsuTheTraveller I always said that these commercials needed to be honest and include a syringe full of insulin next to the plate, haha.
AM WORKOUT (0400 wake up via alarm, much better sleep)
12 LABORS: STEALING THREE OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 5, Workout 3
MAIN WORK
SSB front squat
3x3x245
ALTERNATE w/
Log clean and strict press away
3x3x170+1 push press rep per set
Log clean
3x200
(5) Texas Deadlift Bar Mat Pulls
14+5+5x405
ASSISTANCE
Lateral raise dropset
35x10, 35x5, 35x2.5, 35xEmpty Hands
BPA
100 total reps
Ab circuit
3x20x180 reverse hyper/3x10 standing ab wheel
Axle curls
55 reps
Band pushdowns
1x35
Notes:
I was dragging this morning. Just felt stiff, and I got a little light headed warming up on the log. I’m gonna assume I’m just running things hard while the food intake isn’t matching, but it timed out well for this to be the day that I cut the work sets down in order to be able to get in the cleans and mat pulls. I dig this structure, and I realize it’s similar to the 3/5/1 approach I was wanting to employ on a weekly basis: just contained within the week’s cycle itself. The Texas Method used something similar, from what I recall. This might be a trick I carry forward.
The 3 cleans of 200 is a recent PR, and upon reflection, I actually think I had a press in me on that first rep as well. It went up so smooth that I still had plenty of energy. That’s a good place to be, especially once I throw on my grip shirt.
The mat pulls continue to improve. I added a rep while increasing the ROM, and I’m still not pushing to my absolute limit on these sets. Biggest limiter is my internal pressure: I still feel that heartburn like feeling earlier in the set than I’d care to, so I have to release my brace and re-accomplish. It’s been a while since I’ve had to employ this skillset: just gotta rebuild it. On the plus side, my hips are handling the work much better than before.
Still got in my daily touch on the sandbag and throwing bag yesterday. The pick continues to become more mundane. I’m not moving as fast as I’d like, but maybe it’s time to break out the belt to give that a try.
Tang Soo Do was a decent workout last night. Our head instructor is back, still recovering from back surgery, but able to observe classes and provide instruction. Nice to have that vector again.
Took photos of breakfast and I’ll post the recap at the end of day, but it’s kept up with my Gaston/Heracles hybrid (Gastonacles? Heracleston? Someone who is handy with AI please create the hybrid image of the two Disney characters for me) with 1lb of air fried grassfed New Zealand lamb, 3 hard boiled pastured eggs, 4 egg whites mixed with 1 tablespoon of grassfed beef tallow and a strip of beef liver. This time I had the big brained play to take all the leftover fat than ran off the lamb during the cooking process and pour it all over the plate/eggs to add flavor. How does THAT grab you compared to syrup @dagill2? Haha.
We do it here in Canada when we go to a sugar shack during maple syrup season (which is right now). Maple syrup on everything from crepes, beans, eggs, ham and sausage. We put only “creton” on the toast which is a pork mixture and keep the potatoes salty but the rest swim in fresh maple syrup. You can also use maple sugar instead of syrup for the crepe. Some people put maple butter on their toast… You normally also have some maple taffy on snow at one point. Food coma follows. A snack of salty peanuts and chips follows when you are able to eat again to rebalance salt/sugar and lots of liquid. It is normally a once a year event but damn that’s weird when you think about it. I am going in 2.5 weeks!
This at least tracks pretty well from a primal/paleo perspective. Keep the baseline all year, feast on the day you find the treasure trove of sweetness, get back to baseline, haha. I DID enjoy sampling some of your fine maple goods when I was in your neck of the woods last year. I also had my first ever “Pal-o-Mine” bar, and I feel like we’re really missing out not having those in the states.
I love Micky Dee’s. Thanks for the lunch idea! The Quarter Pounder Deluxe is tasty.
Weirdly, the same chocolate bar, for example, a Kit Kat, taste really different when you cross the border. We like to have a bunch of laws to protect consumer (on some stuff it’s abusive but those laws sit fine by me when it comes to food) and I know a lot of chemicals allowed in the US aren’t in Canada. Even naming things are protected. So you can’t call something chocolate if there isn’t a certain amount of cocoa in the substance.
We have those same laws too…but companies find a way around them. It’s why they’re “Froot loops” and not “Fruit Loops”. Or how American cheese…isn’t. It’s labeled “American Singles: cheese product”, haha.
The Kit Kat is definitely inferior to the Pal-o-Mine. I imagine it’s the fudge that really sends it off.
Chaos is the plan: found out I’ll be traveling from 14-18 Apr, which is 2 days after my strongman competition. It’s a forced bridge week, which honestly works out well for me, as I can use that time to establish new maxes for my next program. I was curious what I was going to do with 8 weeks to train in between my competition and my cruise, and now the answer has been given to me: I won’t. I’ll have 7 weeks to train. So I’ll most likely stick with TB1 Zulu for 1 6 week cycle after I return from travel and then just do something silly for the week before my trip.
Yes please.
I am, reluctantly, finding that the more fat i eat, the less hungry i am. I’m also finding the more caffeine i drink, the less hungry i am too, so its not all wins.
For me, it’s fats consumed in the absence of carbs. I’ve found, when pairing the two together, I can eat copious amounts (why hello cheesecake) and still have hunger come back quickly. Fats will blunt the response of carbs to an extent, which is to say, if I were to just mainline honey, I’d most likely achieve diabetes before I ever hit my stopping point, but the real “magic” of fats seems to be when consumed on their own or in the presence of protein. No real blood sugar/insulin spike, so no hunger dragon to chase. I was eating something every 30 minutes before, and quite literally counting down the 29 minutes between when I ate one thing to when I ate another. Now, I have the one big meal after training, and then I eat when the family comes home primarily because it’s “dinner time”, but I could honestly push it much further than that without any real effort.
Getting myself out of the caffeine game has been good for me. I feel like I’m actually a non-responder, as I was consuming over a gram a day at one point without any real effects, positive or negative, but it was definitely a “just because you can doesn’t mean that you should” sorta thing.
Here is the recap for Maximum Definition Diet
Breakfast as descirbed. Dinner of 10oz of piedmontese 93% lean grassfed meatloaf, 6oz kalua pork, 3 pastured eggs and 4 whites with tallow
@atlas13 You rock! I shared that with my family: they got a kick out of it. I’m honestly tempted to make it my avatar here, but I feel like I owe it to actually have some skin in the game with my photo attached to my name. But that’s just outstanding.
AM WORKOUT (0325 natural wake up, tossed and turned until 0355 alarm)
12 LABORS: STEALING THREE OF THE GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES
Tactical Barbell Operator Cycle 2, Week 5, Workout 4
“ALL RUCKED UP”
Treadmill walk w/45lb vest
Speed: 3.8
Incline: 5.0
Time: 90 minutes
Distance: 5.7 miles
BREAKFAST (details to follow)
Short walk w/dogs
Notes:
Decided on this name for the workout because my focus was on the incline vs the footspeed. 3.8 is my comfortably uncomfortable pace: it’s faster than my normal walking pace, but not my “this really sucks” walking pace of 4.2mph. At incline 5, it satisified my normal criteria of me wanting to quit on the first lap but being able to hold on for the whole workout, and according to my watch this was the first time I held a high intensity heart rate for 100 minutes, which means it’s more challenging than what I did last week at 4.2mph and 1 incline, even though, according to the calorie calculator on the treadmill this was an “easier” workout, burning about 150 fewer calories. Data is interesting that way.
Primary driver of this change in approach is that my left foot’s arch is still tender from last week, and Tang Soo Do seems to trigger it as well. I remember walking fast caused it initially, and I re-triggered it in the last 15 minutes of this walk, but the pain didn’t last like it did for the entire walk last time, so I’d say that’s progress. Since I couldn’t move fast, I decided to up the challenge with the incline, moving upwards, hence “all rucked UP”. I’m clever like that.
On the topic of Tang Soo Do, last night was an even better workout than Tuesday. Basics week tends to be good for that. Lots of combination techniques and open hand forms. We’ve got it again tonight. We also got in a 3 mile family walk last night, and I was able to get in my daily sandbag and throws. That daily approach is working well, but it doesn’t carry the obsession that my previously “daily work” did. I’m doing this with an end in goal, rather than the work being the goal itself. I may try to continue this moving forward, along with my goal of actually implementing some daily work chins to re-build my back, but, of course, Chaos is the plan.
Breakfast was the same thing it’s been all week: 1lb of grassfed New Zealand leg of lamb, air fried with spray duck fat and salt, 3 hardboiled pastured eggs, 5 whites mixed with 1 tablespoon of grassfed beef tallow and a piece of liver. I, legit, love this breakfast, and I weighed in at 80.0 kg after my walk. Yes: part of that is sweating out weight, but I’ve effectively dropped 4.6kg in 2 weeks time, which is absolutely bonkers and speaks VERY highly to the effectiveness of this maximum definition diet. I honestly feel like the dude from Thinner, when he’s raiding the fridge and says to his wife “Does it LOOK like I’m dieting?” I am eating SUCH wonderful satiating meals and seeing myself lean out.
Sleep was weird. I slept very well and felt restored, but at 0325 my brain woke up and decided to solve all the problems in the world. Made it easier to get out of bed, because I knew I wasn’t going to get any more sleep.
Today will mark day 7 of gum sobriety: my last piece was last week, when I walked on the treadmill. I skipped it today, and still breathed through my nose for the workout.
My travel is officially locked in from 14-18 Apr. I already secured myself a hotel with a kitchen and full fridge that’s down the road from a Safeway, so I have no concerns about eating. I’m also 50 miles away from an In n Out, so I’m definitely going to make that trip. This is actually my first travel since I started healing, and it’s amazing how little anxiety I have as my orthorexic-like eating habits have faded. I’ll have no need to pack a suitcase full of food and kitchen appliances: I’ll show up, buy some steak, eggs and butter and be set. I’ll also save quite a bit of cash by not needing to go out to eat all the time (because I can make a better steak than I can get at a restaurant for a fraction of the price), and with it being the week after my comp, I can just focus on getting in some walks and conditioning workouts and maybe spend some time finding my maxes for my next program.
