Greetings from THE WOODSHED,
It’s time for the surprise pop quiz. What did J.M. Blakely say at the end of his article on BIG BOYS MENU? Anyone….anyone… that’s right, “To beat the man, you’ve got to out eat the man!” High five yourself and grab a scooby snack.
J.M. gets very intense in his approach to the reader as far as having the right attitude towards consumption of mass quainties for MASS. I’ll address a few of them today and we’ll go from there. Note: we’re taking small bites here. Too big a bite and you risk choking, that not only pertains to ingesting your groceries, but also knowledge. Too much at once and system overload. too much food your body rejects it and you puke. Too much info for the brain cells and system shut down. We want to stay hungry. Ok let’s explore some points made. Carry food with you at all times. You bet your sweet bippy! Look, life happens, If your movin and groovin like myself throughout the day you have got to have your meals planned, prepped and packed, ready for dispersal when the alarm goes off. Alarm GRILLMAN, yes an alarm, set to predetermined intervals throughout the day for your feedings. Until you find your groove like Stella, set an alarm on a watch, phone, windup, whatever. This will help you in training your body and mind to be accustomed to throwing down the groceries. Mr. Blakely also mentions things like poptarts, slim jims, canybars, etc. Sounds great! I love pop tarts, but we are after clean calories. Clean calories according to GRILLMAN: If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it. Avoid pre-packed frozen entrees, processed and refined breads, sodas and the like. High fructose corn syrups and partially-hydrogenated oils are to be avoided like the plauge. You get the idea? So if your a consumer who eats out a box or can, your going to have to make some lifestyle changes. The biggest being food prep, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Basic simple foods as close to their natural state as possible. Refer to my menu I posted. I’ll have an updated one soon, I’m still making some tweaks.
Familiarize yourself with foods and their breakdown of calories, protien, carbohydrate, fat values per portion. Take a stick of butter a jar of peanut butter and a couple of candy bars and your on the right track says J.M. OK that sounds wonderful and I’m drooling just thinking about that, however this flavourful concoction will sit in your gut for hours. Mr. Male lion eats up to 75lbs. of meat at a sitting, then sleeps for up to 20 hours a day, that sounds great too, but that is not our present goal here at the woodshed. We want BIG MAN nutrients from “clean”, calorie dense foods, yet strive to keep our intestinal motility functioning like a smooth operator. Remember this, FOOD IS FUEL FOR YOUR BODY, feed it with high octune fuel as if it were a 8000 horsepower top fuel dragster, fuel like ho ho cakes and mountain dew may sound like heavy duty fuel, but this is what went into Yugos and LeCars and I don’t see them cruising down the strip these days…have you?
KISS. KEEP IT SUPER SIMPLE GRILLMAN
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Great post Grillman!
“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat eat it. Avoid pre-packed frozen entrees, processed and refined breads, sodas and the like. High fructose corn syrups and partially-hydrogenated oils are to be avoided like the plauge.”
That is great nutrition in a nutshell…….