It would probably be pretty good! I know that the PB bread (same company that makes PB-2) works but it’s very dense and hard to soak up the egg. It can though just takes longer to saturate. I don’t know I’m that one though. I say give it a shot! I’m sure it’ll be good. I cooked 24 pieces up this morning that I’ll eat over 8 days. It’s really good stuff.
I am curious, does it crisp up like fried bread or is it chew/soggy like eggs?
I cook mine crispy on the outside it’s still a little soft in the middle. You have to cook low heat or it’ll burn before the inside is cooked
When I was little my big sister told me that putting salt on my dinner cooled it down. I went a year where every meal tasted of nothing but salt !!
@Koestrizer Will do! I was tempted to share my avocado based cesear salad dressing I found that is almost entirely monounsaturated fats. I honestly could not ask to live in a better era as far as nutritional constraints go. Just going back to the 90s, if I had wanted to do low carb and low saturated fat I’d pretty much be living off lettuce and chicken breasts, but these days there’s always some company out there in a lab making some sort of mad scientist creation.
@marcb84 I may give it a shot some morning when I got the house to myself. Same way I make fish, haha. Also thinking about trying out a grilled cheese with non-fat cheese and avocado oil instead of butter. Christ this complicated, haha.
@simo74 Aren’t siblings the best?! I think the one real positive I got from my sibling nutritionally is that meals were competitive and I learned how to eat quickly at a young age.
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Meant to log that I trained grippers yesterday. Doing it about once every 2 weeks. Focused on timed holds.
Realized on the ride to work that every 10 years I drop a bunch of weight. When I was 14 I did my initial weight loss from 176 to 150lbs. Then at 24 I did about the same as I did now: 210ish to mid 180s. Gets better every time, haha.
Man the hardest part is finding things you enjoy eating that’s good for you. Once you get there it’s not hard to maintain. I’m not a “grilled chicken, broccoli and steamed rice” every meal kind of person. I understand it for a contest prep but even then I don’t think it’s necessary if you’re making clean low calorie dense foods that keep you full and don’t have tons of cals.
Things I also use a lot of are PB2, plain Greek yogurt (smoothies) fruits, stevia, protein powder of course, Tons of veggies for huge wraps with some form of chicken on the or lean meats in general.
I’ve failed on soooooo many diets and this approach has helped me be healthy and not starve all the time. I love to eat and can eat large amounts.
@T3hPwnisher have you ever thought about submitting your blog posts to tnation?
He probably prefers that people are able to read them.
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@marcb84 For me, variety, enjoyment or hunger honestly doesn’t matter much. I’m far more “high speed/low drag” when it comes to nutrition, and will easily eat the same thing everyday if left to my own devices. A family is about the only thing that forces variety for me, haha. My work meals are pretty much all riced cauliflower and canned chicken breasts because they take like 3 minutes to make. And I’ve lived with hunger for so long it feels weird when I DON’T have it. I had a stomach bug a few months back and I remember that the most miserable feeling was NOT feeling hungry, and that once the hunger kicked back in I finally felt “normal” again. Being able to eat large amounts was great for putting on the weight, but I like how simple life is when I’m not cooking, cleaning and eating all the time.
@lucasmon The powers that be aren’t too jazzed about me posting my blog here. It tends to be removed.
Going to workout in a bit, but wanted an update that I’m not quite pulling the trigger on the high fat pre-workout meal yet. Woke up at 182.8lbs this morning, post yogurt but no energy drink. Still, that’s only 16oz of fluid, so call it 183.8 and it’s a drop off from last week. Haven’t consumed any direct carbs for about 3 days and abs/midsection were looking the most defined I’ve ever seen them, but also leads me to believe I’m pretty carb depleted, so I did up the breakfast cereal and had a slice of that keto bread toasted with some raw honey on it about an hour before I wanted to lift. We’ll see how that shakes out.
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LUNCHTIME WORKOUT
GIANT SETS (chin-press-abs)
Weighted NG chins
5x40
5x75
5x100
5x110
5x115
5x120
Axle strict press
5xAxle
5x66
5x136
10x186
4x206
6x186
Standing ab wheel
6x10
GIANT SETS (weighted dip/DB press or log clean and strict press/dips-DB lateral raises-band pull aparts)
Weighted dips 85/DB press 50s
2x12/failure
1x9/failure
Log clean and strict press away 135/dips
3x10/failure
DB lateral raises 15s
3x11
3x10
Band pull aparts
3x13
Log Viper press 30 reps
5:02
2 mile walk
Notes: 90 seconds rest between giant sets and before the viper press conditioning work. Wanted to just see what I could do with bodyweight pressing to validate my thoughts on my strength during weight loss. 10 was the goal, and I made it under less than ideal circumstances. I woke up at 0200 last night from my right calf cramping up, and then at 0550 from the left one doing it. Abs kept cramping during stretching today and my left hamstring cramped on rep 7 of that set of 10. Had to take it to a split stance for the remainder of it to keep stable. Between that and this being a part of a giant set vs my normal 5/3/1 build up with lots of rest, I’m very pleased with the results, even if it kills my soul a bit to see less weight in total.
Cut the rows out of the second round of giant sets because I planned on doing the log work for the conditioning and figured that would be enough back work for today. Had to deal with my lower back cramping up like mad during that: trying to do more than 2 sets in a row toward the end was a challenge that way. Was a great conditioning drill.
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TKD lesson (40ish minutes)
It was quick but good. Started with balance and things were rocking. Worked on double round kicks and front to round kick combos. Looked fantastic. Transitioned to training Dan Gun and my kid has it memorized well enough. Stance transitions are a lot smoother than before. They can still get twisted around on the twin outer forearm blocks and knifehand strikes matching the stance to the move, but they were able to self correct by feel because they could tell it wasn’t quite right.
Had to wrap things up quickly after that because we had company coming. Let me kid pick the finisher and they went with roundhouses again. Really trying to drill pivoting on the lead food. It came along a little, but now they want to wind up their body a bunch before the kick to do it. Tried teaching them how to step out to achieve that. We also drilled some roundkick to roundhouse kick combos.
Decided that, for the next stripe, my kid needs to do Dan Gun to the point that it looks satisfactory and without aid. For yellow belt, my kid needs to do all the things at orange belt while keeping their fists closed and tight the entire time. They’re still doing thumbs all over the place and relaxed fists and I’m correcting as I go, but I’m gonna sit down with them after they have 2 stripes and tell them I’m not comfortable giving them a yellow belt if I think they can’t keep a fist. They’ll eventually know enough to be dangerous to themselves if they try to apply it like that. I’m hoping that will incentivize them.
EARLY AM WORKOUT
MAX EFFORT
(1) Elevated High Handle Trap Bar Pulls
5x135
5x225
3x315
1x405
1x495
1x585
1x635
1x675
2x700
GIANT SETS (dead-row-chin-neck)
2 second paused high handle trap bar pulls 425
3x8
T-bar row 155
3x8
NG chins (various grips)
3x8
Neck harness 45
3x25
Notes: 3:45 between heavy pulls, 2:00 between giant sets. My back was still feeling pretty fried from the log cleans yesterday and super heavy work wasn’t feeling viable. 675 felt like max effort already. Told myself I was going to pull 700 for a double and I managed it, but I honestly think I shoulda tried for a triple. Live and learn. Still a solid effort. Giant sets went well, and I got one on camera because I’ve had a few folks asking to see what they look like and this is one of the few where I stay in frame for the most part.
Cut the conditioning out. I’m waiting on a new fridge to get delivered, so I wanted to get the workout over as soon as possible. If/when I get the fridge, I’ll mow the lawn, and if I have time after that, go for a run.
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Fridge delivery got pushed back to Thursday. Typical. I’ve legit never worked with a logistics company that can actually handle logistics.
Mowed the lawn and then went for a 30-ish minute run. Temps read 94 degrees with some decent humidity.
I totally get that it can be complicated sometimes, but man, you’d think it was doing brain surgery while talking your way through rocket science.
Like, don’t get me wrong: I’m sure it’s a tough job. That’s why I DON’T do it. I don’t get these people that decide to make stuff like this their profession and then just choose to be bad at it. I hire out so that I DON’T have to do this, and then, inevitably, I have to STILL become a logistics manager, because now I gotta double and triple check on the company and report this up their chain and do all sorts of admin work I’m not getting paid for.
I went off on the last company for daring the use the word “can’t” with me, haha. “We can’t get this to you today like we said we could” “No, you won’t. You CAN go rent a U-haul on your own expense, load it in a truck and drive it here. There’s still daylight left. You’re refusing to meet our contract: let’s not use the wrong words here.”
I am most likely part of some sort of customer service training program over there now, haha.
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This could be a shot at entire subsets of generations haha.
I held a minor logistics position for a brief period of time and it probably took years off my life. I’d honestly rather flip burgers than go through that headache again.
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Reading this, I feel like I am back in math class when pupils would ask the teacher “can I go to the restroom?” to which his reply was always something along the lines of “I hope so” or “I’m quite confident you can” or “I don’t know”.
I worked in 2nd level technical support for a while (cashless payment; so mainly merchants calling in with technical problems regarding their terminals, payments, IT and such).
This experience has given me the confidence to tell you, you have to do A LOT better (or worse) before you’re a part of customer service program, haha. Some real maniacs out there. I loved those customers (that’s only half a joke as it often tickled the piss out of me).
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EARLY AM WORKOUT
DB bench press 105s
1x20
1x11
1x9
Swiss bar incline bench 190
3x10
Axle bench press 210+chains
1x10
1x7
1x6
Pull ups between sets of benching
4x8
6x7
1x10
Dips
1x41
1x30
1x27
2x29
Poundstone Curls
115xAxle
Notes: 2:00 between benching and dips. Alternated between sets of axle bench and incline bench. That benching against chains is still a fantastic challenge. If I try to go slow, I get buried. Have to keep pressing hard the whole time. Tried throwing on a slingshot at the end to make it something of a stripset and it just wasn’t happening. Really don’t get why people like them so much. Next time, I’ll just take off the chains. Big fan of how this day is going. Will need to grab some conditioning later: may do another run.
Tried out my high fat pre-workout meal, and think I actually like it more than high carbs. Will keep playing around with it.
Had enough time to get some more detailed photos of progress. Got some arm, back and leg shots. Did a little face censorship this time, as things are getting gratuitous.
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Wait, so I’m not crazy liking butter as preworkout 
