Chris's Warrior Menu

[Guest guest]

True to tradition, I will fulfill my occasional duty to share a day in

the life of Chris's stomach.

In doing this, I've noticed that my diet is considerably lower in

carbs than it used to be, especially now that I've tried to dump

gluten in the last couple of days (which was about 4-6 pieces of whole

rye toast per day and 6-12 beers per week). I also eat less animal

fat and rely much more heavily on coconut oil than I did when I

started NT. 2 years ago, my diet was 87% animal fat. Now that

coconut oil supplies about 25% of my calories, that represents a

considerable shift towards more plant-based calories (though maybe a

shift towards more saturated fat!).

I'm back on the Warrior Diet as of the last couple of days, which, in

my version anyway, means ketogenic, raw, and lighter eating for 20

hours (give or take an hour) and a free-for-all for four hours in the

evening. You can see from below, at almost zero-carbohydrate, my diet

is definitely ketogenic during the undereating phase. But maybe it's

ketogenic at night too. Almost all of my carbs are in my overeating

phase, but even then they are mostly restricted to the last hour.

Having all the carbs all at once means most of them probably get

converted to (hopefully) glycogen). But anyway, I generally only buy

2-3 pizzas for the week, and sometimes skip them, which takes away a

good portion of my carbs on days I don't eat them. I guess, if I stay

gluten free, I'll replace them with boiled sweet potatoes.

I think this is a lot more protein than I usually eat. I guess that's

from the chicken soup, which I was surprised to see is all protein

from the label. That's probably because both the chicken AND the

stock are high in protein. I'll probably cut back to one bowl instead

of two, so as not to OD on protein.

Anyway, here it is...

UNDEREATING PHASE

Undereating drink: 2 quarts of unsweetened iced seaweed tea over the

course of undereating phase. (Made by boiling seaweed in water for

1/2 hour.)

Breakfast

3 raw egg yolks (9g protein, 13 g fat)

2 T coconut oil (28 g fat)

1/2 tsp CLO (2.25g fat)

1/2 cup raw sauerkraut (2g carb)

Pre-workout snack

3 raw egg yolks (9g protein, 13 g fat)

2T coconut oil (28 g fat)

1 tsp CLO (4.5g fat)

1/2 cup raw sauerkraut (2g carb)

[WORKOUT: Full squats for strength and some calf exercises for hypertrophy]

Post-workout snack

1/3 lb raw sheep cheese, rosemary-cured Romao (usually I eat cheese in

1/2 lb blocks, but this week they were cut up in 1/3 lb blocks when I

bought them) (38g protein, 55g fat-- estimated from different types of

cheese, info on romao unavailable.)

[WORKOUT: light kettlebell workout, two-armed swings (2 sets) and

clean & jerks (2 sets)]

WARRIOR MEAL

1 American Spirits smoke.

Course 1

1/4 lb Salmon (24 g protein, 10 g fat)

2.5 cups (measured raw) steamed Kale (10 g carb)

2 T Butter (22 g fat)

0.5 tsp CLO (2.25g fat)

Course 2

1/3 lb pasture-fed hamburger, crumbled, sauteed in 3 T coconut oil

with 2 cups veggies (onions, red, yellow, green, and orange bell

peppers, and 3 cloves of garlic). (40g protein, 62g fat, 12g carb)

Course 3

Two bowls (1 Quart) chicken soup, Whole Foods, made with stock from

bones (100g protein, 16g fat, 12g carb)

1 tsp CLO (4.5g fat)

1 glass red wine (cab/merlot mix) (9g carb)

Mid-course snack: 1 Glass orange juice (2g protein, 26g carb)

Course 4

Amy's (frozen) gluten-free rice-crust pizza (42g fat, 87g carb, 33g protein)

1 glass wine (9g carb)

Dessert

1/2 cup Hagen Daz (20g fat, 22g carb, 5g protein)

Closing

1 glass red wine, 1 American Spirits smoke (9g carb)

TOTALS:

Undereating phase totals: 144g fat, 56g protein, 4g carb, 1,536 calories

84% fat, 15% protein, 1% carb

Warrior Feast totals: 179g fat, 204g protein, 194g carb, 3,203 calories

50% fat, 25% protein, 25% carb

Day totals: 323g fat, 260g protein, 198g carb, 4,739 calories

61% fat, 22% protein, 17% carbs