- Hi, I'm Ian Somerhalder
and this is everything I eat in a day.
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First thing I do when I wake up, I eat two small puppies,
no I'm joking.
The first thing I do when I wake up,
it's kinda strange, so,
I have a first breakfast and a second breakfast.
So, we make a lot of our own stuff, right?
Nik and I grow a lot of our own food,
it's gonna sound unnatural, like, I eat that much.
So I usually have a broth first thing in the morning
with a bunch of supplements, like vitamin stuff,
and green juices with my tea
that I then whip in the NutriBullet with coconut oil
and cacao, and salt, believe it or not.
So, you're getting the electrolytes,
you're getting the caffeine,
and you're getting the fat with the cacao,
so that's like a,
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energy.
Then I train, and then I gobble, like, really weird things.
I don't eat a lot of meat, so I substitute it with fish.
So I have to eat, like, two giant handfuls of nuts,
walnuts or cashews or pecans or brazil nuts, and then meat.
So, usually it's fish, and I'll alternate
ocean fish, freshwater fish, usually broil or pan-fry.
But, I cook in a lot of cast iron,
or ceramic coated cast iron,
which, I guess the jury's still out.
No nonstick, it is as toxic as the day is long.
I mean, on the stove, cast iron or ceramic coated cast iron,
lemon, a little bit of high-heat oil,
like sunflower oil or something, and salt.
Boom, lid, steam it.
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And then, I eat two giant handfuls of vegetables.
So, whether it's root vegetables,
steamed vegetables, spinach, anything.
So two of those, boom, on a plate.
Gobble that.
Nik also makes me, we also make a lot of our own stuff,
so she makes me these, like, amazing chia puddings
with coconut milk and chia and cacao and salt,
and then she'll just leave that in the refrigerator
and I'll get up in the morning and I'll gobble that.
In the morning, ya know,
most people eat tons of carbohydrates.
Twice a week I'll eat just massive, huge stacks of pancakes,
but it's only, like, twice a week
Then I'll have my coffee, and then the baby gets up.
That's the beginning of my morning.
That's from 6 to 8:30.
Then it's feeding her, it's feeding the baby,
then it's cooking, then I'll finally sit,
and I'll have even more, sort of,
steamed or sauteed vegetables, with another cup of tea.
And so, we feed the baby usually
fresh fruits, hash browns, sheep's yogurt or coconut yogurt,
stuff that's fermented and good and high protein.
And then we sit there and I'll eat that too, so.
It sounds kind of insane, but when you eat really clean
you're eating tremendous amounts.
It's hard to do that because that requires
tremendous amounts of packaging and plastic, right?
So most of the stuff we get is farmer's market stuff
or we grow it.
I love trying to really cut all this waste,
but I live like a tornado because, I,
there's just so much going on,
that sometimes for convenience sake I'll use it.
What my wife did was do an audit of what we use
and I think it's gonna become a big movement,
which is farmer's market vendors
are gonna start buying stuff in bulk.
So you can go and get your dish soap
and dishwasher soap, and all that stuff,
you can buy it in glass from farmer's markets,
and what they do is, they buy it in bulk.
It's saving 65 bottles,
65 plastic bottles.
So, if you have a million households doing that,
that's just at a million,
that's 65 million bottles a month you're saving.
Lunch, again, is gonna be a fish, huge amounts
of vegetables, sweet potato, quinoa, big white potatoes,
and some high density fats later on.
Oh, I forgot, the other thing in the morning I do,
half a lemon, lukewarm water,
and a quarter of a teaspoon of pink salt,
cause that just goes into your adrenals and just,
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Now, if you have a heart problem, really bad idea,
if you have high blood pressure, not a good idea,
but I'll do that again in the afternoon.
I do do a lot of coffee and tea,
but I also mix it with a tablespoon of coconut oil
and if you whip it, you're binding caffeine molecules
to a fat lipid so your body burns it slower and more evenly,
as opposed to, like, whoosh, straight up and straight down.
And, people forget, yes, sugar is the devil,
one fifth of all the sugar and one fifth
of all the oxygen your body intakes, your brain uses,
so you have to remember to give it that.
I always do what the Rock says,
"it's not a cheat, it's a treat meal."
So a treat meal is just this, like,
giant, massive, amazing stack of gluten free pancakes
with just fruit and maple syrup,
although I didn't realize how much energy production
it takes to get maple syrup.
You know, you tap this tree, and then you boil this stuff
for hours and hours and hours and hours, I mean hours.
Yes I love maple syrup, but I use either local honey,
you can also just take blueberries and just grind them
and put, like, a little sugar, or a little honey in them
and all of a sudden you get this,
like, amazing compote situation.
Another great treat, dark chocolate,
loaded with antioxidants, it's got some caffeine in it,
but it's just so good for you, it's ridiculous,
you can also just take cacao, tumeric, honey,
a little bit of salt, you can just mix it with hot water
and then shake it up and it's like dessert,
but it's loaded with all these huge super food,
sorta, properties.
Every dinner we make sure we get home as a family.
Dinner, again, is super crazy healthy starches,
potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, quinoa,
gluten free pastas, fish, vegetables.
Or, a lotta times, no, no animal proteins.
Ya know, you can take one big head of lettuce,
cut it up, put it in a cast iron pan, water and salt,
cook it down a bit, boom, olive oil, spices,
whatever you want, and bam, you have, like,
this amazing vegan amazing meal.
You can put it over rice, quinoa,
you get incredible amounts of nutrients and carbohydrates
and proteins from dense, amazing vegetables.
The planet's better for it, your body's better for it,
your brain, your energy production, all of it.
That's it, that's everything I eat in a day,
which should probably be five days.
And, thank you!
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