Recipes For Disaster: Why Eating Bigger Makes You Better...

   Jill...

Josh...

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself." 

To this day we seem to find the truth side stepping reality when it come to feeling full, burning fat, and gaining muscle. In the end whoever's study has the most money has the right answer, simplicity and experience be damned.

Recipes For Disaster:

I am continually questioned by folks needing recipes to be able to eat well. There must be a million damn Paleo Cookbooks on the market telling everyone how to cook meat, nuts, seeds, and vegetables in a slightly different way. There are literally thousands of websites dedicated to just prepping the same food we have had since any of us can remember. Like somehow adding a garlic clove will miraculous spawn a new dish.

No I'm not interested in giving you a thousand options of food prep only to have you become bored and ask me for one thousand and one. I want to give you the keys to the castle so you won't need a recipe book with ideas you most likely will never use. I want to teach you how, so you can teach others, and I don't have to sell you a pretty picture of a dish that is essentially beef and green beans with shit on it. I want you to be sold because you believe everything, and cannot even remember another way to eat because you just feel that damn good. 

Cows Vs Pork...Pork Vs Chickens....Fish Vs Shrimp:

I still get emails regarding the toxicity of fish, and fish oil. Well the protein in fish can be toxic depending on how its raised (farmed or Wild Caught). It could be the type of fish (produced of nature or man-made). And which part of the fish your eating. Things like mercury are in the protein of fish, and fish oil (EPA and DHA) are in the fat...so fish oil ain't got mercury.

But instead of whining about how toxic it is, and what fish oil I take and you take, or different ways to eat it, why not look at the item itself. Have you ever snagged a boat of sushi only to find your self hungry an hour later. How about consuming all that fish in comparison with equal amounts of beef? I wager the animal that was bigger made you more full.

Proper maintenance of eating by the size of the animal can make you much more pleased with your menu so you can stop searching for a million recipes to make shit taste better. If your always full, taste is much less necessary. If your always full, cheating is unheard of.

In fact our Lent Post spoke of Jews eating fish mainly on Fridays. This is of course not saying that ate things like shrimp or pork, but it makes sense to say other meats are thrown in for fullness and nutritional profile sake.

Taken one step farther the larger the animal the better the chance for less toxins depending on how it was raised. Beef allowed to function in a pesticide free environment feeding on grass its entire life will not only boost your hormones in a positive fashion, but you will feel full with less calories.

The smaller the animal the easier it becomes for it to house toxic chemicals simply because a little goes a long way when your as small as a bass, as opposed to as big as a cow. In fact fish feed on seaweed and kelp, and while humans can eat underwater plants it doesn't really mean we should all the time. The bible in fact speaks heavily of eating green items above the water leaving the fish to process the toxic plants of the deep which they do much better than us...then we eat the fish.

The goal of any good eating plan is to do it as second nature. To invest in learning a lifestyle that for all intensive purposes can be followed without a recipe book. So if your not full, eat bigger. Not just calories...from the farm. If your always looking for "New Chicken" your shit outta luck. God hasn't made one of those in a while, and if we happen to come up with one I would run the other way. Stop looking for website with pretty pictures for your next entree. Change your idea of what food is. Change your view of how to eat it. Then change you life by not being ruled by it.

*PCF will run "The Open WOD Week One" @ 6pm March 18th. Click Here for more details. We expect everyone to show up bring friends, family kids and the rest regardless if your competing or not. You can still register here if you wish to workout, and it doesn't matter your level. All competitors from all over are welcome, register via the link above. Its free, CF only asks you enter the international event for $10. The games site is sketchy still because there are so many damn CFers in the world we killed it, but be patient with you refresh button and see you Friday.

Strength:

Rest

For Score

"Open WOD Week 1"

30-Double Unders

15-Power Snacthes 55/75

AMRAP 10 minutes

Post total reps achieved to comments, and games site profile.

Comments

[HN]

5 rds even

Forearm beatdown, lung destroyer. It's only 10 min - just never stop!

[NP]

"We are going to extend the cutoff time for submitting your results to five full days after the functionality is live. This means that you will now have until 03:00 PDT on Monday, March 21 to submit your first week's results. That is 3am Pacific time, and this extension is only for the first week. All the other weeks will remain on the standard Tuesday to Sunday at 17:00 PDT."
http://games.crossfit.com/features/first-weeks-workout-description

Since we were discussing this last night, thought I'd post the deadlines for submission.
"

[jb]

Nalin
Thanks for always being on top of the game my friend...hope ur St P day WOD Beer treated you well this morning

And Heather...wish u were here with us to do it, hope all is well on the water...Please send pics

[NP]

Heather- with the 5 rounds, you would have been 8th in the Central East region.. just sayin..
Still time to register!

Yea the beer wod was not the best idea.. but the good thing is it can't make my double unders any worse than they already are.

[jb]

maybe if you drink more they will get better...

[ASH]

Good luck to everyone on WOD 1! I wanna see some PCF names on that leader board!!!

[JN]

Hey jb did you buy those jump ropes around here somewhere?

[jb]

meijer my friend...

[#10]

good luck to everyone!!!!

[Scott Hanson]

Bigger animals have less toxins? Evidence? Counter-evidence says that larger fish have higher mercury levels, hence the advice to avoid sharks, swordfish, etc.

[Dana]

Monica - you and I are tied for # 49 for our region (Central East) - at least as of now... Yay!

[NP]

Scott, I'd venture a guess that your theory is true for carnivores.

Sounded like the post referred to herbivorous land animals (cows goat sheep etc?)