- I eat I would say 90 to 95% vegan meals.
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It's actually fairly straightforward.
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What's up Trainiacs, oh, that one's awful.
What's up Trainiacs?
I've talked occasionally about how I tend to eat
gluten-free, I tend to eat vegan,
I have had a history of bad heart health, diabetes,
in my family,
and a couple months ago I talked about
uploading a lot of the recipes that No Triathlon Kim
makes for us around the house
to satisfy my super fussy needs.
Well that hasn't happened,
thanks to one flaky web developer
and the second web developer going and having a baby.
We haven't yet rolled out those recipes.
One thing, if you do want to get the recipes,
as No Triathlon Kim comes up with them,
go to triathlontaren.com/ntkrecipes.
And then you can get her recipes as they come out.
By the time you see this,
it might actually be up.
He's promised me that it's just a few days from now.
So hopefully it's up.
Okay but I haven't talked a lot about
why I eat gluten-free and why I eat vegan.
Now the reasons for it are not nearly as
health-based, as sexy,
as philosophically-based and morally-based
as you might think it is.
It's actually fairly straightforward.
The gluten-free issue, my dad is celiac,
and there was a time about six years ago
that I went out to the lake,
I didn't bring any food, being the cheap mofo that I am,
and I just ate his food.
So I was running and I was swimming out there,
and I went like, I'm actually feeling really good here.
This is strange.
So I kept trying to eat gluten-free when I came home
after the lake,
and in the two weeks that followed of eating gluten-free,
I lost four or five pounds.
I wasn't really changing how much I was eating,
I was just weighing less.
Because apparently for some people,
gluten just kinda acts like a binding ingredient.
It's kind of like glue,
so some people just can't push it through
as easily and I was just carrying a whole lot
of extra puffiness, water,
and like gunk in there.
So instead of being 175 pounds
without really dieting,
I got down to 160 pounds without really dieting,
and even get down to about 152
when I'm in hardcore training season.
Now in addition to that,
one of the biggest things that has allowed me
to get a fair bit faster does relate to gluten
because when I was doing really big training days
before when I was eating muffins and scones and bread
and sandwiches, I would be sore for probably
two, three days after a big workout.
Now I'm barely sore at all,
unless I do like an absolute killer four, five hour ride,
I just have a little bit of latent fatigue,
but my body is able to repair itself quick enough
that I don't have long-standing soreness
so I'm able to get back to training quicker.
I've been tested for gluten allergies.
I'm not allergic,
I just know that I feel better and perform better,
so that's enough to tell me to stay away from gluten.
Sorry bread.
As far as vegan goes,
on my mom's side, just about every single uncle,
grandpa, great uncle, died of a heart attack
or a stroke.
One of my mom's brothers had a massive stroke
about 10 years ago.
Her other brother ended up dying at I think basically
my age right now.
On my dad's side we've got a lot of diabetes.
So if you're ever going to one of those
just awful wanna make yourself worried websites
where you punch in a whole bunch of family history
and out comes your life expectancy,
mine is like 61.
And the reason for it is that my family history
of heart health is a significant contributing factor
to me genetically being predisposed to
not lasting so long.
The reason I think that vegan eating,
and I'm gonna say I am not a vegan.
I don't claim to be at that standard,
which is a standard that is so high
that I really admire people who are able to
maintain veganism for forever.
But I eat I would say 90 to 95% vegan meals.
So the reason for that is that
when you start researching it,
the longest generational long like decades long
not studies where 100 people were studied,
but like massive studies that
have been peer reviewed, all point to less consumption
of meat products being better for your heart health.
And you know what,
I watched some of those vegan propaganda movies,
and it made me really sad for all the animals.
So I figured I'd give it a shot.
Here's the awesome thing about
gluten-free eating, vegan eating, vegetarian eating,
way overexposed, fix that,
the world has caught on to dealing with us fuss asses.
So 10 years ago it was really hard
for my dad to eat gluten-free.
I imagine it was the same for vegetarians
and vegans 10 years ago.
But today, there is a substitute for just about everything.
And I do not ever really find myself
feeling like I've missed out.
So today, right now,
we are going to show you one of the alternative recipes
that I used that is normally associated
with actually in this case the primal diet,
which is very meat-heavy.
So if you've ever heard of Bulletproof Coffee,
it's basically your breakfast in the morning,
a coffee with a whole bunch of fat in it.
What they recommend is a ginormous coffee,
coconut oil, i.e. MCT oil, and butter, that's it.
And the butter is what I have a hard time with.
I have never heard anyone saying that they cured
their heart disease by eating butter.
However, we have substitutes that are very easy.
So we are going to make vegan Bulletproof Coffee
for my breakfast tomorrow.
Magic Bullet, hemp milk, almond butter in place
of the normal butter,
and MCT oil in place of MCT oil.
Now we take
the hemp milk.
Hemp is probably the most well-rounded
superfood, healthiest thing.
If you're gonna eat just one thing, hemp, milk,
seeds, hearts, oh man, hemp is just the best.
1/2 cup of hemp milk.
We don't quite do one tablespoon of MCT oil,
which is basically coconut oil that is safe
for cooking and baking.
Don't overdose on this or you're gonna be
making a trip over there to the bathroom
in about four minutes.
And then one heaping tablespoon of almond butter.
Go over and fire up the light fluid generator,
coffeemaker.
So what I'll do is I'll make this the night before
a workout, and I'll put it in the fridge,
and then the morning of the workout, the next day,
when this is all nice and cold (blender whirring)
and basically it froths up like a latte.
The reason that this is really nice
is because there's really no sugar or carbs in it.
It's basically just giving you some fat and some protein
so that your body has some fuel to work off of,
but it's not gonna become reliant on carbs.
You can actually burn fat,
get rid of a little bit of this,
and it's about 200 to 300 calories.
So that's like a perfect amount of food
before a big workout.
Now I haven't ever talked about this at all,
but in my experience going from
fat dude to fit dude over the course of
10, 11 years, how long it's been,
there's a lot that you can do to make yourself
look fit and healthy on the outside,
but there's a lot of people that are fit and healthy
looking on the outside and just rotted away
on the inside because they're not taking care
of themselves.
And taking care of themselves means
eating a good diet.
I would say that diet is probably 80 to 90%
of your overall health.
I mean think about bodybuilders, those guys look jacked,
and when they're onstage they could probably
be beat up by Pippi Longstocking.
Like No Triathlon Kim could take them down.
So take care of your body Trainiacs.
You'll be a better athlete and a better person.
(heavy breathing)
Deep stuff, deep stuff today.