Yes! That was perfect - thank you!
Blacker than an introspective glance at my soul.
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What meats do you generally qualify as lean and super fatty?
Where do chicken thighs, 90/10 ground beef, 80/20 ground beef, salmon, and (pork) bacon fall, for example?
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If you don’t drink your coffee black then you don’t like coffee, you just like the shit you put in it. 
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This is true.
Drank it black for years but these days, i drink cheap instant coffee and only enjoy the cream.
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Skinless chicken thighs = lean
90/10 Ground beef = lean
80/20 Ground beef = moderate/high fat
Salmon = moderate/high but GOOD fat
Bacon = I don’t even let my clients count this as a protein. It’s a fat. Sorry, not sorry. Lol
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At least you’re honest. That scores ya quite a few points from me. Lol
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Awesome, thank you!
Sounds like we’re never going to develop that client/nutritionist relationship /s
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I am all of my clients’ favorite “Fun-Hater”. I can be yours too.
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Ha, I’ll take it!
I am a very phase-oriented person and eater, I’ll usually do one or two bacon phases for a few weeks every year but eat none otherwise. Been going with avocados recently, which has been enjoyable on the taste/prep front and I figure they’re healthier.
How do you feel about front-loading fats in the day?
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I like my coffee to be like life - dark and bitter.
@QuadQueen
Would you bone broth fit the bill for healthy fat intake? Looking at some options I may need to bump up calories slightly during the Velocity Diet run depending on how I feel.
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@QuadQueen whats your opinion on using fish as a source of healthy fats? I normally pick up a couple of tins of flavoured mackerel or a pack of smoked salmon on the weekly shop for convenience.
It’s a great choice! Packed with omega-3’s! But as with all things, variety is good too. Use the fish a couple times a week and mix in some other options throughout the week too!
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It has some fat, but isn’t a super great source and the fat that it does have is animal based fat, so similar to that in meat. I wouldn’t rely on the broth as your sole fat choice. Some easy fat bump up options - add olive oil to veggies, and throw in some avocado, nuts, and/or nut butter if you need to.
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I don’t particularly like the “load” approach for any of the nutrients for several reasons, with the biggest being nutrient absorption. Loading it won’t hurt you, but you’d likely be better served if you spread it out.
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Interesting. I recognize I’m risking opening a a Popeye sized can of worms here, but what do you think about timing carbs around workouts? Conditionally important, not a big deal, bad idea, etc?
This would be the one and only exception!! Carb timing around workouts = the only good loading.
Loading with a purpose - to enhance performance/recovery is warranted. Loading for the sake of loading, not so much.
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The part about it being hard to be smart seems to be especially true when we think about ourselves–or at least when I think about myself. I can’t be objective.
I gravitate towards the moderate approach, but haven’t found much success there. I’d slipped into something of a IIFYM approach, only realizing it after QuadQueen’s reply and looking at what I ate vs what s.gentz ate over the last week.
Besides being simpler to follow, extreme strategies seem to be more effective. Over the years, I’ve tried a few more moderate approaches: the Slow Carb Diet, Phase Shift Dieting, Flexible Dieting and can’t say the juice has been worth the squeeze in terms of results.
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In achieving extreme results for sure…in maintaining them though?
Balance. “Bus bench-park bench” ala Dan John.
All that said, @QuadQueen and Co, I wanna brag about my “keto/paleo rocket fuel” I used for my 10 mile race this morning
3 pasture raised whole eggs with a whole avocado spread among them and a generous application of unsweetened sunflower seed butter (that may not be paleo, but whatevs), and coffee with electrolyte powder.
Trying an experiment of having as few carbs as possible and ALSO doing as little running as possible to prep (a 5 mile run 2 weeks ago and one last week, preceeded by 50 weeks of not running).
I found out you CAN do that…but should you?
Hey, there’s that quote about “easy to be hard and hard to be smart”, haha
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