hey guys welcome back to my channel and welcome to another what i eat in a day
video i'm sure you already knew what that is
because oh that was a terrible intro
hey guys welcome back to my channel and another what i eat in a day video
so today is saturday and i mean my weekends usually aren't too different
actually i take that back i've been trying to stick to a monday to friday
work schedule and not doing any work on saturday or
sunday as much as i can so in terms of how my
days are structured yeah things are a bit different on the
weekend anyway the game plan for today obviously i'm
going to show you what i eat but one really
exciting thing is last week it was my birthday and i
got a gopro which you probably saw in the
intro there he is come here
come here oh there he is oh it was zeus's birthday last week too
this turned one year old
say hi
sometimes i feel a little bit bad because if you're not a cat person
and you're on my channel i apologize i am
so sorry but zeus is just such a big part of my life
and i am just such a cat lady that i have to show him all the time
anyway as i was saying i got a gopro and i really want to
film just i don't know something cool something exciting the plan is that max
and i are going to go on a bike ride this morning and
hopefully get some pretty cool shots show you guys
a little bit of the adelaide hills in south australia
where i live a few years ago when i first started my
youtube channel i used to cycle a lot i'm talking hundreds of kilometers
every week i really really overdid it and i talked about this more
in my video on my health and fitness journey
but yeah it was not great for my health so i had to cut that way back but it's
still something that i really enjoy it's just harder now because at that
point i didn't really have a lot of other things going on in my
life i didn't have much else to do now i am a lot busier and it's sometimes
harder to make the time but i'm really excited
to go on a ride today i usually exercise fasted
or in the case of today because it's a little bit later
i'm probably going to make my bulletproof coffee now
and then go on my bike ride in an hour or so and then have my first actual meal
after that that's the plan i'll see you in a bit
all right so that probably could have went better
i had the gopro upright like this sort of above my handlebars to start off with
and when i got to a certain speed it was just
blowing down like this or like this and it would look down and it would just
be pointed at the sky and i was like oh man
and i had it on like that as tight as i could screw it on so
that was a little bit annoying um i ended up flipping it
upside down under the handlebars then it was kind of like against the one part of
the bike and that seemed to work a bit better but
about halfway through my ride the battery just totally died
which i was hoping expecting it would last a little bit longer than that
my whole ride was just a bit over an hour i went 25 kilometers
but yeah after about 40 minutes it was dead but hopefully i got some
good footage i saw a pack of kangaroos i don't know
if you'd call them a pack but it was about 30 so
hopefully that showed up i tried to stop my bike and take my
camera off but it was taking too long and they all
helped away but yeah i'm going to go put this on my computer now and check it
out all right so normally for my first meal
i have something that is usually egg based so omelette
fried eggs poached eggs scrambled eggs and then bacon
very much like a breakfast meal even if it is
at 11 or 12. it's a bit later now i'm pretty hungry
i am going to cook up one of these little scotch fillets
or rib eyes some mushrooms fry up an egg and then top with some salt
oh and i'm going to cook the steak in the airfryer for about
five to seven minutes and then finish it on my cast iron
something else that i want to touch on today that i have been
being asked a lot about lately is cheat days now first off
let's take apart what cheat days are exactly because i really hate that label
to cheat implies that you are doing something
to get ahead and when you have what we consider to be a cheat day
usually filled with junk food or at least food
that you normally wouldn't eat that's not really doing anything to get
you ahead so when it comes to cheat days in the
context of a keto or carnivore diet this might mean simply if you're eating
a keto diet eating foods that are higher in carbs on
said cheat day if you're on a carnivore diet this might
mean eating foods that aren't animal based for a day the short
answer to the question should you have a cheat
day on keto or carnivore it's up to you
that wasn't really an answer to the question i don't think
there is any benefit in planning cheat days
you're not going to gain anything from eating off your diet
in terms of your physical health that is it might benefit you mentally
just to have a break from maybe a strict way of eating
at the end of the day it just comes down to why
do you want to have a cheat day are you wanting to have a cheat day because you
hate how you were eating every other day if that is the case then you might
consider changing how you eat on an everyday basis because
at the end of the day why are you following keto
carnivore any diet i'm assuming it is to improve your health
and to improve your quality of life but if you are miserable
day in and day out then i would say how you're eating
is not working for me the way i eat while number one i feel really really
good and yes it might be a little bit
restrictive i can't have a lot of the junk food that
i really love but for me the trade-off
is so worth it because i feel so much better eating this way both
physically and mentally okay i am totally
rambling but what i'm trying to say is there's nothing wrong with a cheat day
here and there as long as it's not significantly
impacting your health so by that i mean people who are healing
autoimmune conditions who are really sensitive
to a lot of plants maybe to carbohydrates
maybe you're diabetic so you can't have too many carbs
for situations like that you want to have
cheat days a little bit more sparingly if you are just eating keto or carnivore
for general health weight loss etc
then i don't think there's anything wrong with a cheat day
here and there for myself personally i do not plan
cheat days but i kind of let them happen i know if i'm going out with friends i'm
probably going to eat some things that i normally wouldn't
and that's totally fine yeah i might not feel my best the next day
but for me the trade-off is worth it in terms of
i guess what i gain from not stressing about food
when i'm going out in these situations and i guess just the
social aspect of it as well like i said how you are eating you want it to be
maintainable you want to be enjoying it every day and if you aren't
i mean if you're healing autoimmunity then you might need to stick it out
until your health is a little bit better but if that isn't you then yeah nothing
wrong with the cheat day here and there so for dinner tonight i am making
burgers i actually made them last week and then
i froze them so i just used ground beef i put in
some liver powder from grassland nutrition just to
boost the nutritional value and then just salt pepper
and i think i did a little bit of garlic powder as well so i'm gonna cook a
couple of those up top them with some top them with some
cheddar maybe some low sugar ketchup
and i'm thinking i'm gonna have them on lettuce wraps as well today
i wanted to show you guys um my red light from
blue blocks in here i have a red light bulb and
yeah i put this on at night time well not when i'm sleeping but in the
evening just so the room is lit but there's
no blue light coming off this light bulbs doesn't impact my sleep
it pretty much does the same thing as well this is max's side of the bed and
i have all of his blue light glasses these are the orange lens ones i
think those are the orange lens ones so they do pretty much the same thing as
the red light bulb they block 100 of blue light
so you put these on after sunset for when i'm in my bedroom if i'm just
reading in the evening or even just watching
tv on my computer or something switch this on and this is really cool
it's not super bright but bright enough
and just to clarify this red light bulb is not the same type of red light
that is on my red light therapy device that one is a certain wavelength
that is beneficial for your skin muscle recovery
all that jazz but this is just strictly to do with preventing blue light pretty
much