Adam's diet food

amen you looking to make some reductions if you're looking for some recipes to tighten up your bod watch this video if you need to tighten up your web presence consider its sponsor Squarespace to get 10% off your first website with Squarespace use my link and code in the description let's state right off the bat that I am neither a medical nor nutritional professional and you absolutely should consult such a person before trying to change your body in any significant way what I am is merely a guy who has a little bit too much experience making rapid course corrections to his body composition I'm in the early stages of such a course correction as we speak the first recipe I'll show you is what I do to support my exercise regimen which is generally strength training that I do in my dungeon basement gym I never sweep it the bug parts make me feel like I'm rocky in rocky 4 I don't do anything fancy squats pull-ups simple pressing I've found strength training to be far more effective than cardio when it comes time for me to slim down a little bit there's a lot of research as to why that might be the case but everybody is different muscle growth requires protein and I usually go with tilapia which is hardly my favorite fish to eat but I choose it for three reasons one it is cheap 2 it is not full of mercury which is a problem with a lot of fish and 3 it's pretty sustainable as seafood goes what I'm doing my normal cooking and eating I honestly don't consider any of these 3 factors as often as I should in part just because I eat a pretty varied diet and so if I'm eating something bad at least I'm not eating very much of it but for bodybuilding style meal prep which is really what this is I'm gonna be eating the same exact thing in large quantities every day for several weeks and when I'm doing that there's a chance that if I pick the wrong food I could do some serious damage to my wallet my body or my biosphere regarding the latter consideration a great resource to always consult is seafood Watson org which is a service of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California they tell you exactly how sustainable a fish is depending on where you live and where it came from in fact I just noticed that this tilapia I've been buying is actually farmed in Mexico which only gets a middle-grade in terms of sustainability I need to find some from Ecuador or Peru I buy almost all my seafood frozen solid that looks familiar but yeah I buy almost all my fish frozen modern flash-freezing processes caused virtually no quality degradation and when I cook this particular meal I don't bother thawing the fish I just put on a little bit of olive oil salt and pepper and I throw the fish in my oven at 350 Fahrenheit 180 C the results of this tastes surprisingly good which is what got me interested in cooking frozen solid meat in my nan diet recipes what bodybuilders eat with their lean protein is usually some kind of carbohydrate usually rice to fuel their workouts but when I'm trying to slim down I go virtually zero carb on my meals that does not mean I'm doing a zero carb diet here's the philosophy I've developed for myself over the years carbs are gonna happen it happens carbs happen I'm gonna go out to eat with my family I'm gonna go over to friends houses I'm just gonna eat whatever they eat I don't want to be that guy who's like oh no I can't have that I'm on my diet I'm gonna sneak some chocolate every now and then it's going to happen I'm still gonna have a couple of beers every now and then that's going to happen carbs gonna happen so I figure if I go virtually zero carb on my planned meals I'm gonna end up eating a moderate carb diet once a real life gets mixed in and at my age with my body I find that if I just kind of cut my carbohydrates in half and exercise I lose weight so what do I have with my fish instead of rice cauliflower rice honestly I usually just buy it frozen in bags but I'm gonna try to make cauliflower rice from scratch this time you just cut a cauliflower into florets and then you throw a few of them at a time into a food processor and as I feared you have to cut them into smaller chunks first otherwise they just spin around damn so you got to keep doing this until you've got the whole thing blended up into little grains I'm doing two full heads I'm gonna be honest with you this kitchen smells like farts right now all those sulfur compounds getting released and it's messy I think I might just keep using the frozen bags when you're not looking but anyway I'll just put some olive oil and some salt in there turn on the heat and the pieces are so fine that you just have to cook this for like five minutes that pot is so full of water that it basically steams itself cooking is essential not only for palatability but for digestibility my fish looks done it's opaque it flakes easily it's done hey that looks familiar I'll just dump that over my cauliflower rice and I've got my protein meals for almost a week at this stage honest to god that actually tastes pretty good like if I did a better job plating that I could pass that off as a real recipe I just left the pot cool down lid it up and throw the whole thing into the fridge even when I'm dieting I try to eat whenever I'm hungry and whenever I'm hungry I just pull out that pot and dig in I don't heat it up as it gets more than a couple days old a nice squeeze of lemon really freshens up the taste I got to say making that cauliflower rice was a pain but it tastes delicious it's sweet so yeah I'll eat a little bit of that three or four times a day I also do some protein shakes just whey protein isolate and once a day I mix in some creatine powder creatine is arguably the only legal strength training supplement that's worth a damn but back to whey protein for a sec a 2018 study found pretty disturbing amounts of heavy metals arsenic and BPA and some popular protein powders again that's not the kind of thing I worry about too often unless it's a food I'm gonna eat over and over and over again which this is so I'm always sure to buy the good ones on this list it's linked in the description all right I'm gonna show you one more thing that I always cook for myself when it's time to reduce and it's one of my favorite things to eat any time and it's just my simple vegetable soup I have a whole video about that it's linked in the description but here's the latest version of that soup I've made for myself I always start with some kind of onion I get these green Vidalia onions all the time because I live near the Vidalia region of Georgia which is famed for its onions I just Clank those up along with a big carrot and then I get them boiling in some water just water not stock it really makes the most delicious veggie soup now that I've got the hardest things cooking I will Clank up a tomato or two skins and all great nutrition in the skins and there pectins thicken the broth no the white wine isn't really in my diet plan but it's not that much proportionally and it tastes real good when those veggies are at least half cooked I will then throw in some kind of cabbage or kale ideally a crinkly kind and then when that's tender some fresh chopped garlic right at the end plenty of salt a little pepper a dash of vinegar because I like my food more acidic than you probably do and then frozen peas they'll thaw in the residual heat raw olive oil in the bowl to aid the digestion of fat soluble vitamins and also because it's insanely delicious and a little fresh herb that's time I do not have to choke that down I would happily eat that every day and I will and my pants fit comfortably again because I don't want to buy all new pants however if you're gonna introduce this many cruciferous vegetables into your diet all at once you might want to think about taking a supplement containing the enzyme alpha galactosidase things like cabbage and cauliflower and beans contain very large sugars that your body can't digest thus they pass to your lower intestine where they are then metabolized by all of the microorganisms that live in your gut and when microorganisms metabolize sugars we all know what they create so yeah the enzyme breaks down the sugars so that your body can digest them before the bugs in your gut do take some of this stuff when you're gonna have your vegetable soup your friends and family will thank you one other funny thing I do to keep myself eating clean is to brush and floss a lot I think a big reason why I crave sweets is because I have bad tastes in my mouth especially after eating meals so good oral hygiene takes that issue off the table I also take a multivitamin and a fish oil supplements now if you've never successfully dropped weight before I do think I have one more word of wisdom for you and it's about the second hardest part of losing weight the hardest part of losing weight is keeping it off but everybody knows that Laura don't I know that the second hardest part is getting started but if you 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Channel: Adam Ragusea

Views: 1,110,148

Rating: 4.91189 out of 5

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Id: BD3sVIWnnZo

Length: 8min 48sec (528 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 06 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Belvedre]

I loved everything about this video. Also never noticed how big Adam's arms are.

[u/kevl9987]

Lol this man just leaving a pot of shitty food in the fridge to eat reminds me so much of my life I love this video