Been at a desk for 20-years, now at physical labor. Recently figured out that I’m running a serious caloric deficit, and I’m already a skinny fucker. Also, I’m aiming to build a little muscle and a lot of endurance. How do I eat?!
Back when I was working hard, ate tons of fast food. Too expensive and time consuming, don’t want off the clock to go eat (hour round trip including eating). Took a 12-hour shift today and did OK sucking down granola bars, water and kratom, ate my wife’s kickass meal when I got home.
What can I cook or bring to work to power me? What’s simple and cheap and doesn’t require much on-site prep? (We have a microwave, toaster, all that, I just want calories and protein in my face with no fuss). Afraid I’m half-ass cannibalizing myself.
Fat has been way over demonized in modern times, it’s nowhere near as bad as people think it is. There are some unhealthy trans fats, but those have been banned pretty much everywhere.
My brother in Christ, I’m GenX. We were brainwashed to hate fat. And I’ve never been a fan of fat on my meat, not even a little. It’s been a time trying to get over that aversion.
And of course they were pumping us full of straight sugar. No problem with that!
Now I eat bacon and butter all day long. And guess what? I have energy when I do that and it tastes better. (I know, I know, moderation in all things.)
There’s things to be concerned about still, but it’s mostly about the ease of consuming a shit ton of calories with oils. Using real butter or eating fattier meat isn’t really a problem.