This is currently my favorite ground beef recipe:

1 lb. Lean ground beef
2 tablespoons lite soy sauce
1 pear puréed
1 kiwi puréed
1 Tablespoon each garlic and onion powders
4 cloves minced garlic
1/2 cup beef broth
Dash red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon sesame oil drizzled over each serving. Do not cook the sesame oil.


Mix ingredients in a bowl, don’t over mix. Don’t like pears/kiwis, just sub any sweetener, about 2 tablespoons per pound of meat. I like the fruits instead of processed sugar, and kiwi has a prebiotic in it.

Let marinate for st least 15 minutes. Prep veggies and cook rice. After 15 minutes. Drain meat, reserve marinade. Cook ground beef as usual. Add marinade in the last 2-3 minutes of cooking, like making taco mix. Reduce heat let thicken, about 5 minutes.

Makes 4 servings. Pour meat mixture over jasmine rice or whatever carb/veggies you like.

I blanch sprouts and spinach, carrots, broccoli, etc. and put everything over a half cup of rice. Lots of flavor and if you add enough broth, it tastes pretty rich and juicy.


Can do this with chicken or whatever
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Yeah the Time element is a real thing. Even if I wanted to, I just can’t lift for 2 hours straight anymore. So I’m doing a lot of similar stuff you’re probably doing.


Farmers walk is a good one. Just start off on the lighter side and work up.
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My diet sucked until I was in my early 30s, then I would do keto off and on and sometimes track calories if I wanted to be in a deficit... I've probably raised my nutrition game to a B+ in recent years though.

In these days of annual check-ups, I mostly let my labs dictate any diet restrictions. I'm definitely not lacking protein any given day, but I'm sure could have benefited more by now from working out had I tracked calories and macros and eaten more overall.

On that note, I was just watching a video the other day where 6'7" 350lb bodybuilder dude was asked how many calories he eats in a day...... 7000. A day.
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Ughhh i wanna hurl just thinking about it.
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Lewdog is about as fluffy as he’s ever been. So not hard to beat that one!

And I’m at the point in my life where trying to get lean every year just isn’t the enjoyable challenge it used to be. Other important things in life now so I’ll just try my best but I can’t mentally get that strict anymore.
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American breakfast is weird. It’s like Carb City everywhere you look: pancakes, waffles, French toast, regular toast, muffins, biscuits, cereal, fruits, etc.

Your only legitimate option for protein inside the box is like eggs, bacon/sausage and shit like Greek yogurt. And the high cholesterol downside that comes with eating excessive amounts of eggs or bacon/sausage make that difficult to manage as well.
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This is essentially just Korean bul gogi meat marinade, I just modified it so that it was 'healthier.' The dish is a modfied healthy version of 'bi bim bap,' which is basically "leftovers and grilled beef with rice in a bowl." So use any veggies you like.





If you want the real deal, subtract the kiwi and the onion/garlic powders. Add another tablespoon soy sauce, real diced onion and real minced garlic, and a couple green onions chopped, as well as 1 tablespoon maple syrup or honey.


Add 1/4 cup mirin/japanese cooking wine/cooking sherry, whichever you can get. In a pinch you can use a third to half a can of beer.

Use thinly sliced high quality beef, like strip steak or ribeye. In a pinch, I'll use flat iron steak, slice it 1/4 inch thick and then lightly flatten with a mallet, rolling pin or beer bottle.

If you can get it, add kim chi to the bowl before serving. If you like kim chi, add some to the meat while marinading, including about a 1/4 cup of the juice.


Also add about 1 tablespoon go chu jang right before serving, if you can get it. Most groceries now have some version, including go chu jang 'ketchup.' Stuff is kind of like thick sriracha sauce.




If all of that sounds way too complicated, most grocery stores now carry a bottled Korean BBQ marinade. I haven't used one in decades though, so I can't vouch for the flavor. But I've had a couple buddies tell me they aren't terrible.
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Yah. I have been eating 1 serving of grits with a 3 oz. chunk of Canadian bacon chopped up and mixed in to the cooked grits with a small pinch? of shredded low fat cheddar cheese. I mix in a scoop or so of unflavored protein powder or collagen powder, or add 1 or 2 soft-boiled or poached eggs.

pretty healthy, can be ready to eat in under 10 minutes of you go with the microwaveable grits and go with the collagen powder. Can practically drink it if you just add a few extra tablespoons of water to the grits before cooking.
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Heh, yeah any goal I'd have to trim this skinny-fat dadbod would conflict with my dietary and financial responsibility of making sure Craft Beer Quick Stop and other local beer stores continue selling 15% stouts and Drekker.

There's just enough fear of shitty genetics to not buy one of those places and never see my feet when standing again.
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Beef. Ground beef with broth, rice, some veggies... Enough broth it is drinkable. Much easier to consume the amount needed without making it easier to eat.

I go through 1lb ground beef a day. Thats just 2 lunches. Dinner it 8oz+ of some sort of lean meat, chicken or preferably a fatty fish like salmon.

Breakfast you can get easy protein in by using your protein drink as milk for cereal. I usually do 2 scoops so that is an easy extra 50g added.
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this is BS. Cholesterol is mostly genetic and or lack of exercise. Dietary cholesterol has little to do with cholesterol levels.
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I don't think that's completely decided for all people though and there are links to foods being high in cholesterol + saturated/trans fats causing issues with cholesterol... and some research around "responders" seeing spikes when most people won't.

Of my sample size of 1, I dropped mine pretty significantly in a year by cutting out a lot of red meat and dairy with no changes to exercise, and in terms of protein replacing it with more chicken, fish, plant protein.

Granted, I'm not going to redo the experiment several more times by going back to a weekly tri-tip to see if I can reproduce the results.
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I read somewhere last year that 85% of your cholesterol came from your liver; even if you cut out all cholesterol from your diet, 85% of your cholesterol levels would be unaffected.



Can't remember if I bothered to verify that, but I have decided that I can eat eggs and red meat more than once a week. Shit, I eat like a dozen eggs a week these days.
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Reminds me of a Drew Carey joke.

Science determined eggs were good for you. And then they determined eggs are bad for you. And now they're good for you again.

AGAIN?!?!

THEY WERE NEVER BAD FOR YOU!
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This is hard to read
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