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- All right guys, so we are at El Corral
here in Decatur, Illinois.
This is one of my go-to spots for a cheat meal.
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Two cheat meals would definitely be Mexican,
sushi and then, I don't know.
I'm not a big salty person, but I like sweet.
So like good cookies, like My Cookie Dealer,
or I'll actually go on Goldbelly
and order cookies and things.
Because if I'm gonna cheat,
I get a cheat meal a week every few weeks,
I want it to be specialty stuff.
Not fast food garbage, just so, I don't know.
I'm a foodie so I will actually,
wherever area that I'm in, if I'm traveling,
if I have a cheat meal, I will do extensive research
considering that's like one meal, so.
- How are you? - Good.
This is Miguel. - Hey.
- He's a part owner of the restaurant.
He's a bodybuilder too.
He gets the lifestyle.
So what's really cool though is that since they understand,
they understand that I eat a lot of protein,
so they don't gyp me on my protein.
If I'm getting ready for a show or Autumn is,
if we come out to eat,
they can make our stuff dry and bare.
So they understand the lifestyle,
which is why we come here.
And because also I hate going to a restaurant,
and they don't give you enough protein.
That is like the building block for muscle.
And then you pay all this money for the cheap stuff
like the rice and like the lettuce.
No, we're gonna get a large amount of protein here.
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Can we have the healthy chips that you guys have?
- [Cameraman] They have healthy chips?
- Yeah, they have healthy chips.
They're baked instead of fried,
but I think they taste better.
I'm not trying to be healthy, but I think they taste better.
- [Waitress] They do.
- And then, and then just salsa and yeah.
We're good till then.
Thank you. - Okay.
- Yeah, so I like my diet drinks.
In the off-season, I don't really limit them just
because as long as I get my water in,
I try for a gallon and a half
or two gallons or more of water a day.
And I don't limit them.
During contest prep, I tend to limit them a little bit
because I feel like it does cause
some bloating issues and everything.
So, but yeah, I got a huge frosty mug of diet,
huge water while we wait for our healthy chips.
And then we're gonna order quite a bit of food.
- [Cameraman] You look very excited right now.
- I'm excited, yeah.
Especially I'm excited.
This is good.
This shows, I don't know.
I can remember watching Juan Morel's videos you guys did
and all these other bodybuilders and their cheat meals.
And it was like, it made me happy
because when you see a bodybuilder eat.
I don't know, it's just something about me smiles.
That's awesome and good for him.
He works hard.
He deserves it.
So I think I've worked hard enough to where I deserve one.
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Awesome, are you ready to order?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
- All right, I'm gonna have my big plate of protein.
I'm going with the two chicken breasts.
I want two lean steaks. - Yep.
- I want six eggs over easy.
Ham, chorizo, bacon.
And I want-- - Vegetables on the bottom?
- Huh? - Vegetables on the bottom?
- Vegetables on the bottom, and then I want the cheese.
What's the cheese and chorizo sauce?
- Queso, chori queso.
- Yes, yep, yep.
And that's for not me and Dan, that's for me. (laughs)
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That'll get you the gains. - Champions meal.
- Oh my God. - Yeah.
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Okay, so we got six eggs over easy, two chicken breasts,
bacon, ham, steak, chorizo, vegetables.
- [Cameraman] Can you eat all that?
- Half. - Half?
- Half, half.
- But you can eat it all? - Oh yeah.
- Every Saturday, I usually eat everything.
Yeah, I usually eat the whole thing, but we'll see.
I'm not gonna make excuses.
But usually Saturday's a leg day, so I'm more hungry.
I haven't trained yet today,
but I don't see a problem with this going down, so.
- [Cameraman] Good lord, dude.
- Yeah.
Macro wise, I don't know, I don't know.
You guys at home can figure that out.
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This is what makes it, but that's also what's loaded
with the calories, but this is a cheat meal.
So we're not, these calories don't count, oh!
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I always eat the eggs first, so I don't know.
It's like eggs on Mexican?
I know, it's just random, but it's good.
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Oh!
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Still going strong.
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The problem is I didn't eat my eggs quick enough
'cause I always ask for 'em over easy.
But then the plate's so hot with the other meats.
It ends up cooking more on the skillet,
which is not a big deal,
but I typically like 'em a little bit more over easy.
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I'm a person of routine.
I think the only time my routine's really messed up
is when we're on vacation, or I'm traveling,
or I'm going somewhere.
But when I'm home, I just feel like it's the same thing.
It's almost groundhog's day, but I like what I do,
and I like my lifestyle,
so I don't think it really bothers me that much.
If that makes sense.
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I think the biggest thing that a lot of people forget
to ask for is that if you think about it,
at a restaurant their goal is
to make it as tasty as possible.
So they're gonna add extra butter.
They're gonna add all of these things
that are higher in calories to make it taste good.
They're gonna put a lot of additives
to your steak and everything else.
So if you're going out to eat a lot,
you just ask them to make it light on the butter
and light on the additives.
That can be an easy thing.
Typically, anywhere you go you can get a vegetable.
You can get chicken breast.
You can get a healthy fat, you know what I mean?
So I think it's just, even though it's hard sometimes
because you want things like this
or fried things and things like that,
you can still live a normal lifestyle
and make healthy choices.
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This is the end of this meal.
I don't always eat all the vegetables just
because they put so many green peppers sometimes
that I don't eat all those.
But as far as the six eggs over easy,
the two chicken breasts.
I'd say the chicken breasts were probably seven ounces each.
The two pieces of steak I'd say were seven ounces each.
So there's seven, 14 ounces of steak,
probably 14 ounces of chicken breasts, six eggs over easy.
I'd say probably five to six ounce of ham.
Five to six ounces of chorizo.
And then the cheese dip.
So yeah, that's my cheat meal.
And the thing is like, like I'm satisfied,
but I'm not full-on bloated.
I can keep, if we had time, I could keep going.
But that's what, it's just so crazy
because I've always had an appetite.
So when I hear bodybuilders like,
"Oh, I can't get down the food."
It's like really?
It's hard for me to relate 'cause I can always eat.
If you put food in front of me, I will eat it.
So to each their own, everybody's different.
The thing with me is when you start
taking away my good food, I love eating healthy,
but when you take away my good food,
that's when I get cranky.
And I'm just like, "This sucks.
"This is torture."
So right now, getting it down's not the hard part.
So this is what I typically get a few weekends,
a few Saturday nights with my family a week
here in Decatur, Illinois at El Corral.
And hope you guys enjoyed it.
And maybe your Mexican place can do that as well.
So yeah.
This is Brent Swansen for Muscle & Strength.
And you guys have an awesome day.
Comment below what your favorite thing to eat at Mexican is.
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