Yeah, it’s basic survival skills, so I really wanna learn.
Honestly, I like all sorts of food. But for simplicity’s sake while I’m still learning, I wanna prepare something like a monster mash that Brian Shaw usually does. I know he has a video where he prepared one with that navy seal guy. I’ll go back and look for it.
Where do you live? Will give us an idea of what’s available
Philippines.
I was thinking dishes revolving around eggs, ground beef, ground pork, beef, and chicken fillet?
Food porn thread has some great dishes but I doubt I can do those just yet
Later will post some stuff on my log, and just tag you, so we won’t clog up the works here.
I’ll definitely check those out too. Always up for new ideas.
Persone della nazione Testosterone, mangiate troppo bistecca e non verdure. Andate alla palestra. In bocca al lupo. (Best I can remember from high school.)
Saute w ginger, garlic, soy sauce, cooking wine, chillies. Add veggies/tofu/chives after (remove the meat first) if you want (pork +carrots, ground meat + tofu, celery + meat strips). works with pretty much any protein
I’m sure there have been a ton over the years in the Nutrition forum. You can always start a new one there.
Haha that kinda makes sense. Btw do you have Italian roots or something? Your last name sounds very much like it.
Will try to look for some there. Thanks Chris. I thought the threads there were more on supplements and stuff. Didn’t realize the food porn thread was there. My bad. Thanks!
@alex44938 thanks for the ideas! Will have to do some homework on basics of cooking first. I don’t even know what saute technically means lol
Yep. Some great-grandparents from both sides of the family came over on the boat. I took Italian for five years in junior high and high school and was brushing up on it earlier this year in hopes of taking a trip over there with the wife at some point.
One of my cousins actually took their honeymoon to our great-grandparents hometown in Abruzzi but couldn’t track down any distant relatives.
Tag me in as well would you?
Will do
I’m with @Pinkylifting here, but I think it’s because I’m usually trying to live under my body’s desired “set point”.
When I gained weight last year, I didn’t hit a wall with food until I was over 240 lbs. I didn’t have to force feed myself, but I’d forget to eat and get behind for the day. It wasn’t so much “I have to eat.” It was more “I get to eat.”
Looking back at my childhood might answer my questions about this. I ate a bunch of junk food. Lunch on my own - two cans of Chef Boyardee type stuff. In middle school, I’d eat three of the mini pepperoni pizzas sold by Schwan. And then an ice cream sandwich.
I always had a big plate at dinner, even in elementary school. I think I’m just a fat kid. In order to find my abs, I had to be hungry for a long period of time. Once I found them, I had to continue to be hungry if I wanted to keep them. Now that I’ve decided that my dislike of being hungry outweighs my desire to have abs, I’ve become fluffy again. And I don’t care. Well, a small part of me does, but the fatter part just tells that part to shut up.
I’ve just found being hungry to be an easy baseline feeling to have. In much the same way that I haven’t been painfree since 2002 or so. It’s always there, but in turn, I’m used to it.
This sums me up nicely. When I go to the osteo and she asks me about pain and what Positions make things worse I often don’t know how to answer. Sometimes I just say ‘well it all hurts but that is normal and it’s not bad enough for me to worry!!’
I love eating and I have a pretty voracious appetite, save for the times when I’m dealing with stomach issues (as has often been the case lately), but I have to agree that, based purely on how each one feels, being hungry is not as bad as being full and having to eat.
I have been through periods were I was insanely hungry due to dieting, and I can tell that it only really gets ugly when the deficit is very severe, you are pairing it with lots of cardio, and you’ve been doing it for long enough (at least 5 weeks for me).
On the other side, most of my main meals (this happens especially at dinner, since my schedule makes it easier to load up on calories at night than at other times) have me getting up from the table feeling borderline nauseous from how full I am, and man, is that feeling awful. Having to breathe deeply to distract yourself from the vague necessity of throwing up, having to stand up because if you sit down you feel the pressure in your stomach and it makes you feel like you can’t breathe.
So yeah, both eating a ton and not eating enough have their drawbacks, but if we’re comparing them, the ones that come with stuffing your face with food on the daily are more easily observed.
I actually find it shocking that you would struggle to get calories given your fondness of steak and Taco Bell.
Good steaks are easy to eat, have lots of calories, and don’t stay with me for long.
When I am puking, I have no appetite. I forced some food in me today, but could honestly go at least 2 days without eating at this point.
For the whole day I was affected by the stomach bug, at the end of last month, my background thought kept being: “I’m going to do a cut. I want to eat little. I’ll keep advantage of this and drop some fat but PLEASE I don’t want to go back to eating a shit ton and wanting to puke.” Then the next day I was better and as hunger set back in I started being reasonable again.
100% I know the feeling.