How to Eat Whatever You Want and Get Away With It

Friends, I have a very BIG confession to make: I eat whatever the hell that I want.

So much for discipline huh?

Of course, it just so happens that what I WANT to EAT 90% of the time is staple foods like Steak and Eggs.

It also just so happens that I eat, at MOST, 8 hours out of the day and fast for 16-20 hours every single day. 

Intermittent Fasting is a very fancy word for it but it really just MEANS I don’t eat breakfast and sometimes I don’t even eat lunch either.

Some days I eat only ONE meal, other days I go up to THREE meals.

For simplicity’s sake we’ll say on any average day I eat two meals.

That doesn’t mean I eat two meals and snack all throughout the day – it simply means I ONLY eat TWICE per day.

If I eat lunch I usually eat Steak and Eggs, but I have been known to eat Sushi, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and I have even been known to include beer with lunch.

Now I have eaten junk foods with lunch before and it always ends the same way – with me taking a LONG nap. Got to sleep off that insulin spike.

I’ve learned from my blunders and I don’t include any junk foods like ice cream with lunch. It’s usually my standby Steak and Eggs and if I want to go wild I’ll eat some sushi and drink some beer.

But dinner, that’s a WHOLE different story.

At the end of dinner I eat WHATEVER I want.

In a previous lifetime it was called dessert.

It was when people ate their real foods throughout the day and then after dinner they gave themselves a little treat.

Nowadays people give themselves a little treat all day long and they may eat some REAL foods after their junk food.

So if I want to eat a pint of ice cream mixed with peanut butter I’ll DO IT.

But I’ll make sure and eat my REAL food (like steak and eggs) first.

That way I get ALL my protein and saturated fat needs met, I get full enough that I’m NOT gonna go too crazy on junk food, and the FAT that I eat will slow the release of that insulin so I don’t get very CRAZY energy spikes.

And I’ll wash it down with a beer or two.

And hell, even if I do get energy spikes, it’s near bed-time anyway because I ONLY eat that junk at night-time.

I did a two week *experiment* where I reversed that order big time.

Every single day I ate Mcdonald’s for lunch – that’s two double cheeseburgers, big super-size fries and a large coca-cola classic and I had a big ice cream for dessert.

For dinner I ate one or two big ol’ fresh barbecued fishes and washed it down with beer. And then I drank beer all night long.

And I came back leaner and MORE muscular than ever before.

Go figure huh?

Now I’m sure if I ate like a NORMAL tourist, grazing all day on all those lovely snacks, I’d have come back a bit plumper.

That’s the beauty of EATING like you’re supposed to– feasting, NOT snacking – that it’s just DAMN HARD to get FAT.

For my 6 pack abs to go away I’d have to do something drastic, like eat ALL THE TIME.

I’m NOT doing that though.

I’m a goddamn animal, and I DON’T mean a cow.

Until next time.

Your man,

-Elijah “The Realist”