In the gym there’s an echo chamber about needing everything to be perfect.
This time I’ll be focusing on nutrition, eating, food.
There’s ideal, and then there’s enough as in good enough quality, enough calories, enough protein, so on and so forth.
You learn the concept of enough real quick living physically as a laborer, not as a part of the gym’s weakness mindset.
Leave the “perfect” diet shit to those working “professionals” playing pretend inside of the gym.
At work I’ve seen dude with a sloppy drop fat gut, bad back, drug problem, and more robust physicality than all the possibly six figure making, expensive tuna steak eating, gym going males.
All “wrong” with hard work vs “perfect”…yet weak.
But that’s something of a digression.
You don’t need a massive amount of protein, calories kinda (it depends), but protein no.
The USDA 60 gram a day recommendation is closer to reality than the 1-2g per pound of bodyweight recommendation touted as gospel in gym spheres.
Despite all the naysaying…a frozen pizza gets you most of the way to enough nutrition.
Usually coming in between 75 and 100g protein, in the low 2000 calories, you’ve basically hit your protein requirements for the day, and around half of the calorie requirements often for only a couple bucks.
Daily protein intake of ½ gram per pound of bodyweight is totally acceptable, quite possibly even more than enough.
(Also note I don’t worry that there is soy filler in the meat toppings. Worrying about that is minutia, and I’ve had enough spikes in horniness after eating “dirty” foods with soy in them to say the fat and calorie bomb aspect far overshadows any negatives from the soy.)
You don’t need perfect, you simply need enough.
Enough nutrition makes diet far simpler.
Persistence & Tenacity