Hi Dylan. No your answer was perfectly reasonable in tone. I Know mine tend to be a bit too full on sometimes. I am not upset but feel silly now seeing that you are gay and i know how much gay men like other muscly men. So go for it. Make your muscles big and lovely and go get those guys.
Yeah i agree, Arnie seems like a good role model. He's done a lot with his life and given back to society. I don't think he's shallow either.
Well i guess if you like your egg whites you are not going to change because i suggested it. But i don't think the cholesterol in four eggs is dangerous for someone who's exercising a lot. Exercise burns up cholesterol. Cholesterol is a fat after all.
I disagree with pbl's suggestion of chopping up your food as soon as you buy it. Doing this kills off many of the vitamins the vegetables contain. Its better to do it at the time of cooking.
When i go shopping, i don't just buy stuff. I try to buy things with a meal in mind. But then i think this is may be more tricky for people who are not used to cooking rounded meals ie vegetables.
One suggestion to make it easier to fit veggies in to your life, if it seems like a chore is to buy a different vegetable for each day of the week. buy say 500g of each if you are eating a lot because you are burning so much in exercise.
Lets say, for example, you buy pumpkin, eggplant, tomatoes, capsicum, green beans, broccoli, carrots. onions - always buy onions and garlic. You will use them in a lot of recipes.
You are going to make a dish each day that is built around one of these vegetables. First its pumpkin. Look up pumpkin recipes on the net. pumpkin soup, roast pumpkin. Both are easy things. Make one of these.
Next is eggplant - moussaka, babaganoush - you need shallots for this too, marinated eggplant, grilled aubergine with spaghetti and so on...
next tomatoes - so many meaty casseroles use tomatos but in that case canned will often do, stuffed tomatoes, meatballs and spaghetti greek style or italian style.
next capsciums - stuffed capsicums, roast capsicums,
next green beans - lebanese style beans, greek style green green beans, beans, steamed beans,
next broccoli - broccoli in a chinese style dish with chicken and broccoli, steamed broccoli, fried rice with broccoli, stir fry broccoli
carrots - roast carrots, fried rice with carrots, steamed carrots, carrot soup
Those are just a few things off the top of my head.
I think this way it would be easy to include vegies in your meals. You will have leftovers and after cooking just one vegie dish a day, after a few days you will have a few vegie choices in the fridge.
I did something like this when i wanted to eat indian food every day after returning from india where i had really enjoyed eating the food in the ashrams. I found I really only needed to cook one dish day. And i always had a choice of four things to put on my plate. It was fantastic. But my father hated the smell of the spices. And also when my life got complicated i fell of this wagon but it was great at the time. And i got to try lots of new dishes and learnt a lot more about cooking. I had some good recipe books on hand too.
orridge with milk/haricot beans/tin of tuna
