- Hi everybody.
This is Morris Chestnut, and today I'll be talking
to you about what my diet looks like throughout the day.
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When I'm not fine tuning for a scene
I probably don't eat as much as I should.
You know, when I'm trying to get ready for a scene
I'm eating five to six meals a day
but when I'm not really working out for a scene
or for a show, I'm not as disciplined then.
Where I veer off most in my diets when I'm not working
is I'm just eating bad carbs, snacks.
I'm eating more sweets than normal
but when I do get a project like
"Best Man, The Final Chapters"
I have to cut out the sweets entirely.
I always try to maintain some consistency in my life
but I'm just more strict and more disciplined
when I'm working on the project.
My workouts are very early in the morning.
I normally get up about three o'clock,
brush my teeth, of course.
Gotta brush your teeth before you drink your water
and I start drinking my water.
I'll eat just a small half a cup of oatmeal and it's dry.
When I do my diet, most of my stuff is dry.
There's no brown sugars, there's no milk or almond milk
or anything like that.
Just to put a little fuel in my system
to get the metabolism started going.
I'll go to the gym,
I'll get a workout in, and then immediately
I'm not even out the gym yet and I'll have my protein
probably about an hour.
And then when I get home is when I have my egg whites
my turkey bacon and broccoli.
I eat a lot of broccoli.
When I'm really dialed in asparagus works really well for me
but broccoli's just the most simplest, simple thing for me.
Just pop it in the pan, put some water in it,
boil it and, and I'm eating it.
And then kinda like an early lunch with chicken breasts,
sweet potatoes and broccoli.
That's gonna be the main thing, is you're gonna
be chicken breasts, sweet potatoes, broccoli, steak
sweet potatoes, broccoli, turkey, sweet potatoes, broccoli.
Then I'll eat that two more times throughout the day.
And then I'll also have, I'll mix in some strawberries
or blueberries in between there.
Yes, I count macros when I'm working out for a project.
I think the thing is, the older that I get
the more specific I have to be with my diet.
When I was younger, you know, eat whatever
and it be be gone like that, I'd just get back into the gym
play some basketball, and it's gone in like two minutes.
But now the older I get, my diet is so much more important
so I really have to stay on the macros.
To when in the past, I didn't have to worry
about macros so much.
When I did "The Best Man Holiday"
I was actually the heaviest that I'd been, probably ever.
I think I was like 220.
I was working here in New York, it was in the winter
and I was eating a lot
and literally the gym was right across the street.
All I had to do was just walk out my door
and walk across the street and there's the gym.
Me being from California
I wouldn't do it because it was just so cold.
I was like, I'm putting my jackets, all these jackets on
the walk across, I just didn't do it.
So I really, I had to drastically change my diet
at that point to get honed back in
and get tight again.
Oh, the diet.
The diet.
Every time I walk into the gym and I have to walk
and go up to the StairMaster,
I feel like he's glaring at me.
I don't like him, he doesn't like me
but we have to coexist.
But the diet is the most challenging
because you have to maintain that throughout the day.
If you don't meal prep
and you don't look at your watch, you can forget to eat.
And time goes by fast, especially when you're going
throughout your day and you can forget.
It's like, oh man, I was supposed to eat.
My body's craving that food.
You're liable to just eat something
that you shouldn't be eating today.
So diet is way more difficult than the workouts.
It's really hard for me to bounce back
if I don't have some type of structure in my diet.
If I'm just eating whatever I want, I don't feel good.
So I'll have like a cheat meal
when I'm really dialed in, not a cheat day.
Oh, protein. Oh, favorite protein.
Oh, chicken.
Chicken.
I don't, as matter of fact
I don't even really like tomato sauce,
pizza sauce on it at that much either.
Oh, sweets.
My wife, she bakes some really good stuff for me
so it's one of her nice desserts.
Ooh, for me, first and foremost, it has to mix well.
I can't stand protein shakes that are all chunky
and it doesn't mix well, so it has to mix well.
It has to be chocolate.
When I'm drinking my protein shakes regularly
I don't crave the chocolate candy bars as much.
Get a protein shake in line of whatever your cheat meal
or your cheat carb would be.
In-N-Out Burger? Yes!
If I am in the midst of we're getting ready for a project
I'll just have a just a regular cheeseburger.
When I've not been working out
I would literally go to In-N-Out,
I'll get a double double, fries, lemonade, no ice.
I would eat that and I've literally have left,
ate it in my car and then drove back
to get another double double.
That's how bad it gets sometimes.
So yeah, I love In-N-Out.
Thanks again.
This is Morris Chestnut
just letting you guys know what I eat in a day
when I'm getting ready for a project
when I'm not getting ready for a project.
And if you wanna see some of the results
look at "The Best Man, The Final Chapters."
Take a look at that and hopefully what I said can help you.