Seems logical. Sounds like you have a good Doc. Good luck. I’m always saying I need to eat more fish…but I do once every couple of weeks. Just not something I grew up with or really know how to cook outside of fried fish…which is probably frowned upon but are awesome.
I’m the exact same. I eat zero fish, which is why I take in so much fish oil. These days, it’s more about keeping the family at peace. I don’t particularly care WHAT I eat, but having the house not smell like fish is a big to do, haha.
Went on a 4 mile run with the Mrs in the heat. Was good for enduring misery.
Went out and got some fat free greek yogurt and cottage cheese for snacks, to replace the full fat cheese and 1 of the quest bars I’ve been eating (went from 4 a day to 2, and now should be at 1). I mix the greek yogurt with PB fit, and end up with about 20-25 grams of protein while keeping net carbs at 8. It’s not terrible, and the taste is good.
Butterflied chicken breasts heavily seasoned in a glass baking dish with 1/2” of chicken broth, covered with foil and cooked ~25 minutes at 400 is a super easy and quick way to get some very lean (all the fat cooks out, and there’s no oil involved in cooking) and tender, tasty chicken. Learned that one from @robstein when I was doing a low-fat diet and have made it many a time since. Just a thought for your altered diet.
I also don’t know if you don’t like fish or just don’t like the house smelling like fish, but salmon can be seasoned broiled on the top rack right under the broiler in like 15 minutes, and it’s not a fishy-smelling fish. Plus, it’s way more meat-y than other types of fish, like tilapia or catfish, both of which I cannot stand.
Anyway, I’ve learned to not expect you to take advice, nor be offended by it when you don’t, so I’ll just say that as someone who lost a dad despite him being warned for a decade about how his habits were going to kill him, I enjoy seeing you waste no time in changing things. It may not be your fault if you’re genetically predisposed to something, but if it’s fixable, then the second you’re notified and decide not to change, it becomes your fault.
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Definitely appreciate the recipes and kind words dude. With me being me and how I handle nutrition, you know I’m just gonna put a ton of chicken breast in a slow cooker and mix them with PB fit and tomatoes or make the Poundstone chicken shake, haha. I like how easy that recipe sounds though. I dig Salmon, and I know my Sams or Costco sells salmon patties. My wife is working one day a week now, soon to be more, and worse comes to worse I can just buy up a bunch of fish and cook it on the grill while she’s out and hope it airs out by then.
Talking with my parents some more, genetics are definitely a key variable, but we also don’t have ANYONE that frickin dies FROM heart problems. Cancer is the big killer on my dad’s side, but my mom’s side (where the high cholesterol lives) has people basically live to be in the late 80s/early 90s with a cholesterol in the 300s who die from complications from surgery. My great grandma passed away at 94 recovering from gallbladder surgery, and my grandma passed at 80 recovering from some intestinal surgery.
Although given my propensity to receive surgery, I need to watch for that, haha.
Thankfully, I have zero issues complying with diets, which is also what I told the doc. My wife gave a chuckle at that, because she has to live with me. And I appreciate you not taking offense to my stubbornness.
EDIT: Actually, f**k me, now I need to start thinking about mercury in fish don’t I? Haha. Do you or anyone else out there in internet land know of good resources for that? I know the recs on tuna, but anything else I need to watch out for with fish?
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https://www.fda.gov/food/metals-and-your-food/mercury-levels-commercial-fish-and-shellfish-1990-2012
Salmon ranks 6-8th (depending on canned/caught) lowest out of nearly 80 different types of fish. Eating it 1-2x a week, I would think, could not possibly cause any more of a detrimental effect than eating a lot of other widely available foods.
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You rock again dude!
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I usually do 2kg (bit over 4lb) of chicken breast, 2 tins tomatoes, tin of kidney means or mixed beans, a chopped chilli and some mushrooms. Add other spices you Like or bbq sauce. Leave it on slow for 5-6 hours. Break it into portions and add rice or green veggies spending on if you are having carbs or not. Takes 5 mins to make.
You’re the worst hedonist ever.
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Chickens are pretty easy to add and reduce as meals, too. Start with half a chicken, add more quarters/chickens as necessary for recovery.
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I’m genuinely curious whether you do this kind of thing because you genuinely don’t care about food as anything other than fuel or as a deliberate ploy to avoid overeating.
Edit: I checked out Reddit for the first time today. Holy fuck, there’s a lot of stupid on Reddit. I think I made the right decision ignoring it for so long.
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@simo74 My approach is usually just chicken in salsa or chicken in tomato sauce. With an instant pot, it’s stupidly quick, but I also used a slow cooker many times.
@alex_uk It’s why I do these things. The only way to become different than what you are is to do things opposite of your nature.
@dagill2 Nah, it’s not about overeating. I never pack more food than what I intend to eat, so I eat all the food I pack. I’m VERY task oriented when it comes to eating and drinking, and just eat and drink until the food and liquid is gone. It’s made me a stupidly fast eater, and my wife always comments on the fact that I’ll have my soda finished before she’s even gotten the straw in hers.
I’ve honestly lost the part of me that cares to enjoy food, at least on the day to day. If every meal tasted good, it’d kinda ruin the joy of having good food. With COVID especially, indulgent food has gone almost entirely away and I’m just eating to get in the nutrients. And when combined with being task oriented, I REALLY don’t wanna have to deal with making 3 different dishes and separating food and preparing it all differently: I just get everything I need, put it all together, get it done and move on.
Reddit is a young crowd for sure, and it’s a lot of silliness, but there are some solid dudes over there. If nothing else, it helps give me blog fodder, haha.
AM WORKOUT
(Going from memory)
SQUATS
2 minutes rest between sets
20xBar Buffalo Bar
10x135 Buffalo Bar
13x135 Buffalo Bar
20xSSB front squat
6x135 Buffalo Bar
10x135 SSB
10x135 SSB
4 minutes rest between sets
22x135 SSB
23x135 SSB
24x135 SSB
SUPERSETS (snatch-hyper) 2 minutes between sets
Hang power snatches 95
4x3
Reverse hyper 90
1x50
1x40
2x30
Notes: Had some big plans, but my abductor is still not ready. The first set of 20 felt good, just a little tight, but I had a pull/twinge on the follow up set at 135lbs. Used the knee wrap to brace through out most of the workout after that, but for the final sets of 20+ I went without it. As much as I don’t want to, I’m going to take some time off the buffalo bar and stick with the SSB. It’s easier on my abductor for a few reasons. Once is that my elbows make contact with my quads at the bottom of the rep, so I can brace there and move slowly out of the eccentric, and the other is that I don’t have to keep my torso as rigid as when I do buffalo bar squats, which means I can let more tension go to my core instead of my legs. All squats were VERY slow and controlled, making things pretty brutal, despite the low weight on the bar. Unfortunately, this kind of injury takes a bit to get to 100%, but it thankfully doesn’t seem to slow me down on other parts of my training.
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Went on a 20 minute run in the heat again. Mowed the lawn before that. Going to do a TKD lesson and then the wife wants to do Tae Bo tonight. Getting in a lot of activity today. Will keep spamming the log with it.
So far, the nutrition front is honestly like a game to me. It’s fun looking at labels and finding what can replace what and where I can trim out saturated fats. The truth is, I love limitations, because they force me to think and get creative, and during those times I come up with my best ideas. On that note, PBfit is most likely going to be my savior through this process. Goes with everything.
I feel this. When I was little, I loved to cook, but we never had all the ingredients or equipment so I had to get creative. Actually managed to whip merengue with chopsticks once 
made for a good college essay too 
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@anna_5588 my wife is the master of baking substitutions. I swear baking is really alchemy: not science.
Today’s TKD lesson was amazing. @kdjohn I am using your balance drills and they have been very helpful, but I’m sure you’ll also appreciate the real breakthrough we had on balance today: the power of the Mom. She was watching our lesson today because I was expecting a phone call, and after the first 5 minutes of my kid falling down on some very basic balance exercises, she pulled my kid aside and read them the riot act (“you are wasting your father’s time and knowledge/if you don’t want to be here you can just quit, etc”. IMMEDIATELY after that balance is restored and we have a fantastic lesson.
However, I was still planning on having a very balanced challenge kid today, so I made the lesson on the thai clinch/plum. I explained to my kid “Hey, while you’re still figuring out your balance, HERE is a way to make the other guy do the balancing FOR you”. Taught them about how you can use the head to control your opponent, how to squeeze with the elbows and pull into the chest, and quite honestly: my kid is a natural. Very little instruction needed and they had me locked in with a super tight clinch, and when they fired knees I didn’t tell them to hold back at all. They hurt! I wouldn’t wanna be in my kid’s clinch. We did straight and cup knees and they all were fantastic. Worked some quick knee combos. It’s a shame that my kid is picking up the Muay Thai so much better than the Tae Kwon Do, but that also probably explains why they have elementary school kids fighting Muay Thai matches: it’s easy enough for a kid to learn.
Had a great day with Dan Gun: no toppling over, solid stance transitions, punches were on point, etc. Best I’ve seen in a long time.
Finished off with some kick checking and then some roundhouses on the bag. The balance work and the power of mom really shone through on those. Also used a smaller bag to drill some knee strikes.
Told my kid that if they have another session like this I’ll promote them a stripe on their orange belt. Just a much better experience than the ones I’ve had recently.
Tae Bo still on the docket for tonight. Need to make sure I don’t pull something. I re-tweaked my abductor getting into a roundkick.
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Loved reading all of this. So happy that things looked up this session for you.
And yeah, there’s nothing like a mother to instil a little fear into a child. Or anyone.
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I picked some of this up a few weeks back to try out. I’ve been making overnight oats with chocolate protein powder, PBfit, and whole milk. It’s like Reeses Puffs for grownups.
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@kdjohn They always have that talent, haha. Was good to be able to call in the big guns.
@mr.v3lv3t Had a similar experience with my post workout shake with chocolate whey and PB fit. Very peanut butter cup adjacent. Always a good thing.
Capped off the day with an hour of Tae Bo with the Mrs. Was a solid workout. Wasn’t huffing or wheezing, but broke a sweat, got my heart rate up, and got to move my leg through the ROM some more.
Ah so you are a hedonist who doesn’t want to be a hedonist? That makes sense because every time I read you saying you are a hedonist it feels like I’m reading Anna’s confessions that she’s lazy.
Out of all the people on the forum your training seems to be the one seems designed to bring maximum discomfort! (I’m sure that’s not the goal though).
Always a good read though.
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Glad you enjoy the log dude. I don’t want to change being a hedonist: it’s just something I’m aware of. It’s no different then acknowledging that I’m an introvert. I can still be outgoing, loud, jovial, social, etc, but I understand that my internal energy and balance is restored by time to myself where I can think and reflect. As a hedonist, I recognize how much I enjoy simple physical pleasures of sloth, entertainment, indulgence and avoiding pain, but I also understand that transformation results from doing the things that opposite of your nature.
In truth, NOT being a hedonist would run opposite to the goal. If I became a masochist and started to enjoy pain, I’d have to come up with a different way to train in order to obtain self-improvement. Much like how, if someone is inclined to WANT to train extensively hard and maintain a strict diet, they would have to seek the pursuits of hedonism as a means of self improvement.
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