Mmmm breakfast of champions lolI was getting back from the Vitamin Shoppe yesterday and was thinking it would be a good idea to ask you guys what kind of supplements you're taking (or have taken) and how well they are working for you?
Quantity vs. quality and cost vs. quality always seem to be the big issues for me. I nixed a lot of brands that I loved, purely because they were way too expensive for what they were. Yesterday I dropped one of my favorite protein brands and jumped on board with a new one, just because it was the same price for 2 more lbs. I'm also running out of fish oil and I know that quality can be an issue with it - but I take so much it's really hard to justify spending a ton of money on it... I guess its back on the research bandwagon for me.
This is (some of) what I'm currently taking:
multi-vitamin (cheap, works great, and no 15 pills like the last kind I took)
Fish Oil (cheap shit I know, but there is a ton and it's really inexpensive. Looking into new stuff. Any suggestions?)
Whey protein (awesome, love this stuff and have been using it for years)
Whey protein isolate (awesome stuff too, just grabbed this yesterday)
... and there is more, but I suppose those are staples.
Log from yesterday Negative the couple beers Alex and friends caught me drinking at the bar! Hey, my car got nailed by some lady on my way to LP for class last night and I needed one haha - guess I shouldn't have cheated on the West Loop, huh?
Finally found this blog. You people are nuts. See some of you tonight!
ReplyDelete@ Drywall, lol no Paleo for you man? I'll start posting my food in this blog instead of just my log book (suggestion by Rachel). Not sure if I'll be consistent.
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Meal 1
1 cup coconut milk
1 Paleo pancake, 2 turkey sausages
Meal 2
Ground beef, salad, 1/4 cup almonds
Meal 3
Whey protein shake, coconut milk
Meal 4
Chicken breast, edamame
Post WOD
Whey protein drink
NOT enough calories, although I didn't feel slow. Today, I will "up" a few things calorie wise.
Daily Supplements:
Whey protein powder
Fish Oil
Multivitamin
L-Carinitine
For Drywall - some science! Hahaha
ReplyDeleteIt takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.
For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized.
Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.
Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.
This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.
Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.
Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.
We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.
Happy eating!
By "up" a few things, I mean add fats to each of my meals (preferably nuts) which I did not do properly today. Also I'm going to cut the coconut milk to only use in my shakes. I was trying it for the first time yesterday.
ReplyDeleteJA - Excellent summary. I'm a man of science, as my recent post on Paleo vs Non-Paleo zombies clearly demonstrates.
ReplyDeleteSide note, we should start trying to do happy hours or something on Friday nights, post-WOD.
Agreed - Stink and drink? Though I think it'd have to be mostly tequlia for some of us ;)
ReplyDeleteJohn, love the post. as for supplements, i take none, except the occasional protein shake. i consume upwards of 3000 cals per day. i dont know how you guys manage on so little, but to each his own.
ReplyDeletebeing a man of science myself...i have been hesitant/lazy in terms of trying fish oil. studies have really been inconclusive to this point on certain fronts (such as AD, see most recent issue of JAMA, or you can borrow mine. jk). Yet, the methods and time of treatment may be the issue. Most of the proposed benefits are on pathological conditions that take life-times to develop, i.e. cardiovascular disease, neuro disorders, etc. Therefore, those of you who are taking fish oils now, at a young age, may be the "guinea pigs" of research to come and the beneficial outcomes. cheers to that.
summary: i should start taking fish oils in small amounts and i need a vit D supplement, big time.
as for happy hours, i usually hit up the friday morning class, but i love beer and i love crossfit (dont tell my gf), so putting those together has to be like reaching the nexus of the universe.
bieber. out.
Love the write up John! I will start eating lots of icecream. :)
ReplyDelete11/4 Food Log:
2 scrambled eggs - turkey sausage
americano coffee
Grilled Chicken Breast, Tomato soup (chk broth based)
Lara bar
Grilled Chicken, romaine lettuce, tomato, avocado, cucumber salad
Supplements:
Fish Oil 1400mg
Calcium + Vitamin D 600mg
Whey Protein (not daily - should be)
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ReplyDelete@John... love the post and the scientific information on beer and ice cream consumption. Very informative!
ReplyDeleteI think we're in for some fun with Drywall around. Have you seen his blog!! Hilarious!
Food for the next 3 days will be the same so I'll post it once today. It's pretty boring. . .
AM
5oz Grassfed Beef
2tbsp Butter
PM
5oz Skirt Steak
2tbsp Butter
Forgot to add supplements. ..
Fish Oil (wholefoods brand, not great but who cares)
DIM (basically broccoli in a bottle)
Colostrum (we get our athletes to take this as it promotes healing from muscle tears and is just great for the immune system).
MSM (for joint repair)
Zinc, Magnesium, CoQ10 (for the heart) and Trace Minerals
It's a lot but coming off of long term veganism has made all this necessary.
Sorry all for sucking this week- definitely not on the paleo wagon. will be back Monday morning & ready to full steam ahead i swear.
ReplyDeletein regards to ice cream- at TARGET i found some coconut ice cream & i think its paleo. go look for it...its not phenomenal, but if you love ice cream (like me) this will fulfill your craving :)
thanks john for pointing out that while I was cheating on paleo, i caught you cheating on WL. what a bunch of cheaters....
anyone going to workout on Sunday morning...its in my plans if you want to join !