The cashier views me as a regular, I go often enough, and comments on my purchase.
“Right now I’m living on almost naught but red meat and grape juice.”
I’ve eaten a decent amount of ground beef and drank a whole lot of grape juice these past few months.
Animal fats and fruit sugar :
At 21 visiting family who had collected about 300lbs of apples from their yard, while feeding myself on chicken leg quarter, milk, tuna, and ramen they told me apples were fair game.
Meal one was tuna and ramen with milk, generally around 8am.
Meal two was chicken leg quarter and ramen with milk generally between 4pm and 9pm.
Around lunch time I’d eat a 2 or 3 apples, maybe a glass of milk, and possibly a protein bar in a flavor my uncle had bought in bulk, gotten sick of, and given the last dozen or so of to me.
Maybe 2 dinners a week I ate with my aunt and uncle, and rarely I’d spend a few bucks to throw some deli meat on the cheapest bread available while out.
I realized during this period that I functioned really well with fatty cuts of meat as the base with simple sugar from fruit as an energy source, eating grain in more of a supplementary capacity/in addition to role.
Years later I’m on the same principle with ground beef, grape juice, chicken thigh, and dairy.
I don’t think keto is how we are supposed to eat, nor do I think vegetarianism is, I’m not suggesting eating the standard american diet either.
I like approach eating with a more masculine lense than the gym, and clearly was strongly influenced by the biblical outlook on eating.
“Land of milk and honey” is clearly implying an abundance of good things.
I take this to be clean eating. I don’t vilify any natural foods.
My opinion is that God wants his children to participate in, and take advantage of the cornucopia he has made available.
Restrictive ways can have use, but healthiest and most sustainable is to have a mixed diet.
I have realized such things as grain being the food of slaves, cowards, women, and the womanly.
That’s not to say it’s without use.
You will grow larger eating grain in supplement to your meat. Heavy on meat and dairy, grain supplementary.
Media fear mongering on fat, cholesterol, meat is intended to keep you weak and unhealthy.
Anything pushed by the media I know is sickness, and therefore I go the opposite way.
I’ll eat as much meat, eggs, and full fat dairy as my body craves.
Likewise sugar implied to be unhealthy for you, I disregard.
I find that natural sugar from fruit, maple syrup, and honey is fine for the body, it’s the combination of processed man made vegetable “fats” and processed sugar that’s bad.
Natural fat?
Natural sugar?
Healthy sources, part of a mixed diet.
High fructose corn syrup? Vegetable oil? Not really.
Red meat and fruit sugar are both quite unprocessed. It doesn’t get better than that.
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