re: Eating healthy is hard

Eating healthy sucks but isn't too bad.

I eat egg whites and an english muffin for breakfast. A large portion of ground turkey, chicken, and rice for lunch. Protein bar before I head home from work. Protein shake after working out. Shrimp and rice in the evening.

The only thing that takes time to prepare is my lunch meal which I cook for the week every Sunday night.

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crockpot for the win

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Mfing this. There are some days I leave my house at 6:30am and don't get home till 3:00 am. Between 2 jobs and school, my Crock-Pot is more important to me than pretty much any food prep item besides a microwave.

Nothing better than coming home after working 16 hours plus sitting in class for 4+ hours to a hot meal. plus I just freeze/ refrigerate leftovers and boom! Fresh lunch for a week

Soem easy things to do when eating out...

Eat kids meals at fast food joints

Split a plate with your wife at a "sit down" restaurant.

I ballooned up to over 300 after I got out of the military. Now I'm back to sub 250.

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huge pot of garlic mashed potatoes

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I can eat that??!

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I can eat that??!

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you can eat anything and still lose weight

only autists believe you need to eat "meal prep with broccoli and green beans" every day to be a healthy person. its actually pretty amusing to see these people look like skinny fats after eating like a bird for 6 straight months, just lol

Well to be fair rocket, he did say he really didn't need to lose weight just wanted to eat healthier so Nutella and BK chicken fries are out

Btw you would have proud this morning while I was stuffing down Nutella and Cinnamon Toast Crunch while getting shredded.

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Btw you would have proud this morning while I was stuffing down Nutella and Cinnamon Toast Crunch while getting shredded

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Fellow Slayer in the crib?!

I ate a can of cinn rolls, while letting my genes keep me looking shredded

Costco has lots of organic healthy items. Buying Chicken, Eggs, Beef, fruits, veggies, & nuts in bulk will save you $. If its just you try going half in with someone. Work out 4x week and eats carbs 2x week. If you drink soda stop. Eat your carbs. Water & Coffee/Tea, & not sweet tea

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How do u make steamed veggies taste good? Can't tolerate raw veggies and only enjoy them with lots of seasoning and lots of butter.

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Butter is fantastic for you. Sea Salt not terrible either.

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How do u make steamed veggies taste good? Can't tolerate raw veggies and only enjoy them with lots of seasoning and lots of butter.

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Add any of the following:

Grass fed butter
Olive oil
Salt/pepper
Garlic (or combine all of above to make garlic butter)
Grated cheese if you handle dairy well (grass fed preferred, grated Parmesan is very versatile)
Salsa
Guacamole

Other strategies:

Use cauliflower as a base to make mashed "potatoes". Can add all the fixins you would put on a baked potato (butter, sour cream, chives, bacon,etc). George Stella has a recipe floating around on the web somewhere

Placed steamed broccoli or cauliflower into your favorite cream or cheese based soups....

Expensive strategies:

Atheletic greens

Dr Cowan powdered veggies

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