Where we discuss when it's time to move out from your parents

impossible to buy in toronto (saved you a bunch of research)
vancouver=100x worse. wait til the canadian housing market crashes and everyone loses their places

e: jephir beat me too it, booo


eating cheap isnt hard. you just need to look at what foods are heavily subsidized in your country... (also lol at trying to be healthy and using fucking soy sauce)

 

I think I may have already posted this

 

I got 10 out of 16

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px7Uc2GrnhE
Basically true.

I am physically unable to live on chicken breast for more than 2 weeks. I know how steak tastes. You will now go out and buy a fillet steak & some asparagus - you will cook both with butter, not canola oil.

Thank me later.

Everyone knows the shredded dude and we all know he hates his life of "prepped" chicken breast, whole wheat pasta and protein shakes.

 

I can say as someone who has run competitively for years, this is the way to go. I never get tired of baked chicken, rice, and peas. It is probably the best thing ever conceived of by mankind. I don't use soy sauce though, just salt. Lots of salt. No other seasoning required if you're working yourself hard enough.

 

Im not even going to try to pull out a candles, but i seriously pity you both for eating the same stuff over and over.

 

I thought dropping weight was all about calories, why only eat chicken?

 

It is.

Chicken breast is relatively low calories in terms of all the meats with high protein, 0 carbs and very low fat. Compared to say, beef mince, which has similar high amounts of protein but generally higher in calories and fats (unless you buy the leanest beef mince available, but higher fat is NOT a bad thing, contrary to popular belief). Therefore, chicken breast is a great meat to consume while bulking or cutting, especially cutting since you need to keep protein intake high to retain as much muscle/lean mass as possible. Pair this with rice, which makes up for the lack of carbs from the chicken but itself is relatively good for calories, with 0 zero fat and a minor amount of protein. The veg is just for micro nutrients.

That being said, I tried brown rice with chicken and broccoli at uni several times throughout the year forgetting how much I didn't like it and I've come to discover that I fucking despise brown rice for life. No matter how much soy sauce I put on or try to flavour it otherwise. How people can eat this 7 days a week I have no idea, let alone 5 weeks.

Agreed. Although in comparison to other cuts of chicken, breast is actually a bit more expensive in the UK compared to fattier cuts such as thighs or legs, in terms of supermarket prices anyway. You can pick up a kilo of chicken breast for £5.99 in most places, compared to say £3/4 for a kilo of thighs and drumsticks mixed. Tends to make a difference when your on a budget.

 

Protein-->energy is a backup system for when you really cannot find anything else.
Brain needs its carbs. If you go without carbs for extended periods of time your brain will go haywire.

 

So what do I have to eat to get ripped and be smart?

 

I don't tend to eat rice that often as I think it's generally too many calories, but sometimes I'll mix in a sort of ready-made curry pouch thing and I tend to use long grain brown rice for that. I use Birds-Eye frozen veg most nights and just drop some soy sauce on it.

As far as preparing the chicken goes, I generally put it in a bag with some olive oil and seasoning while the oven heats up. I bake it though but it tends to be pretty juicy after that.

I don't like eat super super healthily, but I do try to keep calories around the 2000 mark. I tend to eat a slightly unhealthy lunch (cheese + crackers) and a lot of the time I still have a slice of toast maybe 3-4 hours before I go to bed. It's really just tracking calories and keeping an eye on my protein count to be honest. I used to have pasta with my chicken and cut it up and put a sauce in but I've tried my best to cut that out.

 

soy sauce has an enormous amount of salt and rice especially brown rice has arsenic in it. It's best to limit intake of both. Hate to put a damper on you're diet, just thought I would mention it.

 

You are better off with a sweet potato with your chicken its loaded with good stuff

 

Potato literally a billion starchy carbs.

But like I said, I tend to use rice with shitty ready made meal pouches that I use when I forget to defrost a chicken breast the night before, so it's like a once a week thing at most anyway because there's just a surprising amount of calories in rice and that's the meal of the day I really pull my calorie count down for.

 

Since I only eat rice in stir fry, I don't really have much of an opinion of it as I don't like curry, apart from that I don't use it to cook with anything else. Wish I had some inspiration. Either way, it's carbs in a meal that's easy to measure e.g 75g serving's filling enough, no fuss info off the back of the packet's enough, easy macro's sort of thing.

I don't eat "super healthy" either, I don't see the point, especially with IIFYM.

Currently 2 weeks into a cut with another 10-12 to go, also just keeping an eye on calories and protein. In about 6 weeks I can actually manage everything better, but for now, just making do.

 

sweet potatoes have a lot of fiber besides rich is vitamins, I cup only has 114 calories, its the butter people put on that makes it fattening. 1 cup of rice has 204 calories. Long Grain Brown Rice has 216 calories for 1 cup
rice is all starch.