Just Eat What I Eat

David’s Protein Muffins

All Ingredients from Organic Sources, Free-Range, Anti-Biotic Free, Grass Fed

24 Muffins

9 Cage Free Eggs

3 cups Oatmeal  (450 grams)  .1875

9 Ounces Unsweetened Applesauce

9 Ounces Almond Butter

8 Scoops Trutein Protein Powder

6 Ounces PB2

4 Bananas

Ingredient                Sugar             Fat                  Carbs             Protein          Calories

Eggs                            0                      1.875             0                      2.25               26

Oatmeal                    0                      1.3                  12.4               3.2                  72

Applesauce              1.2                  0                      1.8                  0                      7

Almond butter        .666               5.667             2.333             2.333             63.333

Protein Powder      .333               .333               1.5                  8                      38

PB2 Powder             .75                  .5                    1.25               2                      17.5

Bananas                    2.333             .05                  4.51               .22                  17.54

Totals                        5.            9.725             23.7               18                  241.

David’s Protein Shake

All Ingredients from Organic Sources, Free-Range, Anti-Biotic Free, Grass Fed

1.5 Scoops of TruTein Protein Powder.    (I use half vanilla and half chocolate)

2 Tablespoons of PB2Fit (Powdered Organic Peanut Butter)

2 Tablespoons of Almond Butter

1.5 Cups of Whole Milk

.5 Cup Chilled Water

Ingredient                Sugar             Fat                  Carbs             Protein          Calories

Protein Powder      1.5                  1                      7.5                  37.5               165

PB2Fit Powder        3                      2                      5                      8                      70

Almond Butter        2                      17                   7                      7                      190

Milk                            16.5               12                   18                   12                   225

Water                        0                      0                      0                      0                      0

Totals                        23                   32                   37.5               64.5               650

Morning Meal – David’s Protein Muffin, Roasterie Iced Tea

Early Afternoon Lunch with my dear wife.   We went to Rock Hill Grille down in Mid-Town.  They have the BEST brussel sprout salad with salmon on it.  Tons of goat cheese. (I asked for extra……something I would have never considered in the low fat eating days.)  And, a ton of that brown butter vinaigrette.    Is there crack in that stuff?  I am not sure.  But, dang.  It is sooooo good.  And, a bit of iced tea to wash it all down.

That pre-evening, believe it or not, I was still hungry by about 5 pm.  So, along with my Templeton, I went all out on my aged salami and cheese tray.  And, I think I felt a LOT better for the decision.  🙂

Well, dog gone it.  I failed to take a picture of my evening meal.  My dear wife made us panko encrusted pan sauteed chicken breast with a salad.  That stuff is soooo good.  I am not exactly sure what is in panko.  But, I do know it provides a glycemic spike.  So, I don’t think I’d suggest eating it 3 nights per week.  But, dang.  I love the stuff.  Once a week will probably not kill me………although, maybe I should have chosen a day during which there had been an exercise event………?

Morning Meal – David’s Protein Muffin, Roasterie Iced Tea

Pre-work out Meal – David’s Protein Muffin, Roasterie

Iced Tea

Post-Workout Meal – Another Paleo Evolve Meal – This one was grilled chicken over spaghetti squash with a big dollop of garlic butter on it.  So good.  And, almost no carbs.  Roasterie Iced tea and a big thing of water.  Probably ¾ of a liter.

Evening Meal  –  Wow.  My wife’s friend gave her a recipe for some sort of soup/stew with buffalo chicken in it and all the goodies.  Please notice the very sizable portion of sour cream that I ladled all through it.  Damn.  It was good.  You guys need the recipe.

Evening Snack:   No.  I didn’t make it through the evening without a little snack.  And, I assume you saw the Templeton in the picture with the soup/stew in it.  My evening grab was pistachios this evening.  I think I had about 12-15 of them.  And, I washed them all down with about 3/4 liter of water from my trusty water bottle.  What a life! 

Morning Meal – Same protein shake that I eat every workday.  Loved it.  Chased it with the same iced tea that I drink every morning.  Nothing that might spike my glycemic index has entered my mouth yet today……..and, I am not expecting it to happen anytime soon either.

Pre-workout Meal – One of David’s famous protein muffins lightly heated in the microwave. (Hopefully, those things aren’t cancer causing……..microwaves, that is.)  And, the remainder of my iced tea as I drove to Crossfit noon class.

Post Workout Meal – Wow.  Everyone needs to get down to Paleo Evolve this week before this BBQ and Sweet Potato meal is all gone!  Just enough to quench the mid-day hunger pains that occur right after a good workout.  Washed it all down with the remainder of my liter of water that I took with me to Crossfit.  (This is my 2^nd day without any Diet Coke.  Brutal headaches last night.  But, feeling great today.  Maybe the caffeine spikes are pretty much gone.  My tea has very little caffeine in it at all.)

Evening Meal – Somehow, I managed to make it to about 6:30 without dying.  And, without eating any meat and cheese and/or any cashews. But, don’t get too proud of me yet.  Because, for my evening meal, I ate some of my dad’s navy beans with ham in them.  And, three awesome pieces of processed cornbread from a box with a TON of real butter on each piece and a TON of honey in the comb on each piece.  Damn.  It was good.  And, worth the cheat.  And, the whiskey that I used to chase it down made it all the better.

Evening Drinks –  After my whiskey, nothing but water.  Probably ¾ of a liter.  Day 2 without Diet Coke.

Morning Meal – This is a regular work day.  So, you can pretty much assume I drank exactly the same protein shake as I did yesterday.  And, that I followed it up with my Roasterie Iced Tea.  Perfect way to start any day.  Takes no meal prep.  And, I chug mine while I stand at the sink.  So, consumption time is very limited.  Perfect solution for the start of each work day.

Pre-Workout Meal –  I never have a bunch of room in my belly right before Crossfit each day at lunch.  But, I do have just enough room for my famous David-made protein muffins.  And, as such, you will normally see them consumed at about 11:20 am as I drive on my way to Memorial Hill.   And, that is exactly what I did today!

Post-Workout Meal – Well, I got home and we had no power until 8 pm this evening.  So, I failed to get some food in me post-workout.  The first time I consumed anything was about 5 pm.  And, I had that fantastic salmon salad that they do up at The Summit Bar and Grill on 75^th Street.  (I forgot to take a picture of the read deal.  I promise you it looks a LOT better than this picture I stole off the internet.)  It is 15 bucks.  And, it is off-the-hook good.  I paired it with some Templeton Rye whiskey.  It went down quite well!

Evening Snacking – Of course, I did do some late evening grazing to make up for the missing calories from the afternoon.  Some aged prosciutto and mozzarella for starters.

And, I finished the evening with a small handful of cashews.

Diet Coke Anyone?  –  Yes.  I know you’ve noticed a lack of Diet Coke on today’s food listing.  And, we all know that is not normal for David Curry.  But, I am going to (possibly) take another run at quitting the stuff.  When I have it in the house, the girls drink it like it’s water.  And, I know that is not good!  We’ll see how long I make it.

Morning Meal – Well, it’s back to work today.  And, I don’t have time to be making breakfast on work days.  So, I eat (drink) exactly the same thing every single morning.   My protein shake has 7 ingredients in it.  But, it’s worth the pain.  Real organic almond butter.  PB2 organic protein powder.  Organic raw cinnamon from the crazy hippies in California.    (You should be eating as much cinnamon as you can get down your throat.  Every day.  Not just on occasion.  Cinnamon blunts the glycemic spike of glucose.  We’ve been using it for zillions of years to do so and didn’t even know it until the last 50 of those years.)  Grass fed milk from free-range cattle, Vanilla protein and Chocolate protein.  Both from free-range grass fed cattle, of course.  And, a little bit of water to make it all mix up a bit better.  I’ll get you nutritional information on this shake later.  I think it is about 600 calories.  And, guess how many of those calories come from sugar………?  (I think you know the answer.)   (In a future posting, I will put the caloric and nutritional information into a post.)

Morning Mid-Meal Before Crossfit:  I didn’t have one.  Normally, it would be David’s protein Muffin.  But, we lost power in the middle of the night. And, we got up late.  So, I was actually still full from the shake.

After workout meal – I ate my protein muffin after the workout.  And, a diet Coke.  Damn.  They were both fantastic.  The muffin has a banana in it.  And, oats.  So, if you all are believing the hype about us needing a glycemic spike after our workouts, this muffin definitely should address it………a LOT better than eating a handful of some sugar coated candy to get an artificial insulin spike?   Please just say no!

Afternoon Snack – Well, I knew I wasn’t going to make it to dinner without some grazing.  So, I cut myself up a fantastic meat and cheese tray.  Again.  More of that salami from yesterday and some more of that raw cheddar.  Oh.  And, time to get started on the Templeton.  And, time to NOT suck down a handful of chips.  Or, grab for some chocolate or a brownie.  (My kids have two full pans of them laying down here in the kitchen from their day off of school.  I didn’t even take a nibble.  Not because I am super man.  But, more because I simply don’t want them.  I am not on a runaway roller coaster of glycemic spikes………like you guys are.   And, just to be real, I simply don’t have a craving for sugar……….at all.

Evening Meal –  Well, my mom brought us their left-over Navy Beans and ham….with corn bread, butter and honey to be served (fresh) by my dear wife, on the side.  But, Angie still had cabbage and sauce left over from last evening’s meal of Shrimp Tacos.  So, we put the navy beans off for tomorrow.   And, we will hold on the huge glycemic spike that we are both going to experience from the cornbread and the honey until then.

For now, I am going to finish my Templeton Rye………..switch to a liter of water…..and, maybe some snack pistachios……..and, watch the girls enjoy yet another re-running of one of the Harry Potter movies.

What will I not eat while we are doing so?  Chocolate, brownies, chips, candy, etc.  I hope you guys will avoid these pitfalls of fat-dom as well!

Morning Meal – Well, it is probably no shocker that I was wanting eggs and bacon again.  But, I decided to go out on a limb and have sandwiches this morning.    Of course, I used Ezekiel bread for my sandwiches.  It is from sprouted grains, instead of that enriched white flour stuff that you are eating.  And, as such, the glycemic spike is roughly the same as that which you get from eating green beans.  I don’t think that eating bread, even Ezekiel bread, is a great idea for every day.  But, on that odd occasion on the weekend, if you are going to need to have bread on your sandwiches, please choose Ezekiel.   As you can see, I paired my bacon, egg, tomato, lettuce, and real mayo sandwich with a bevy of pan-sautéed brussel sprouts.  Sautéed in real butter, of course….with an appropriate amount of sea salt.

Afternoon Snack – Well, I didn’t get out of bed until 10 am.  And, I definitely didn’t exercise on Sunday.  So, I didn’t need a bunch of food going into my belly.  As a result, the second food I ate for the day was my afternoon snack of aged salami with truffles and cheese.  That salami is $14 a stick at Whole Foods.  But, damn.  It’s good.  And, more importantly, it sticks with our little theme we have going here.  Eat stuff that doesn’t spike your blood sugar or elevate your body’s internal insulin level!

Evening Meal – As you can see, we had some bad ass shrimp tacos this evening.  Wow.  With cabbage and some sweet-free sauce that Angie made to go over the cabbage and the shrimp.  All of it encased in a tortilla that is made from cassava flour, instead of white flour or corn!  Cassava is a root vegetable.  No glycemic spike at all.  And, more importantly, it tastes and performs better than a regular tortilla.  You have to buy yourself some at Whole Foods.  They are made by “Siete”.  Do it.   In fact, they were so damn good that I had myself a 3^rd one, as you can see pictured here.  

Of course, I was eating it all with my nightly 5 ounces of Templeton nightly 5 ounces of Templeton Rye.

And, I followed that up with nearly a liter of water out of that bottle you see in the picture.

Evening Snack – Of course, I did get the munchies a bit even after all of that.  So, I finished my nightly repast with about 15 salted pistachio nuts.  Time for bed!

Morning Meal –  As you can see, I started the day with my go-to favorite for just about every weekend.  Four Cage-Free Scrambled Eggs with at least 6 strips of Nitrate-free free range bacon.  I cooked the eggs in all the butter you see in that pan there.  That is real butter.  From free-range, grass fed local dairy cattle.  And, a bunch of sea salt mixed in with it.  In other words, TONS of fat in David’s breakfast.   A good amount of salt.  But, nothing mixed into the meal to spike my blood sugar……….like toast or breakfast potatoes.  Or, a cup of coffee with sugar in it.  And, those tomatoes there on the side are the dessert, if you need one.  (As you can see, my wife ate exactly the same thing I ate.)  I washed mine down with some Iced Tea.  She drank water.  Later, I further washed my down with that Diet Coke you see in the pic.  Yes.  I am still addicted to the stuff.

Afternoon Snack –

Well, as you may know, I didn’t man up and make it to Crossfit this morning.  So, I really didn’t need a bunch of food today.  Even so, I was probably going to be tempted to start making bad eating decisions towards the end of the afternoon if I didn’t get something in my belly.  So, I searched out my go-to afternoon snack….nitrate free salami with some raw organic sharp cheddar.  I washed it all down with a ½ liter of water.  I could have chosen some donuts, of course.  But, my snack probably didn’t cause my blood sugar to elevate by more than 50 points….while the donuts would have probably pushed me up over 200 glucose level.  Oh.  And, of course, in so doing, they would make me FAT!

Second Afternoon Snack –

Well, I realized I was not going to make it to dinner without mollifying my urge for some more grazing.  So, I knocked the urge to down a pack of Skittles out permanently with about 15 cashews.

Evening Meal

What evening meal could possibly start right without 5 ounces of Templeton Rye?  Served over a large ice rock in a Yeti whiskey tumbler!    A little lime.  And, just a small 1/2 ounce of low sugar Fever Tree Ginger Beer.  And, after that, I allowed myself a bowl and a half of my wife’s famous homemade chili.  Damn.  It is sooooo good.  As you can see, I dress it up a bit with a ton of shredded Colby jack cheese, some sour cream, and some non-GMO corn chips.  Yes.  In layman’s vernacular, that is about the same thing as Fritos.  And, yes.   They do spike your blood sugar.  And, make you fatter.  So, don’t eat them every day.  But, how can you truly enjoy chili without them?  I don’t know.  So, there they are….right there on top, like always!

Evening drink – After I finished my Templeton, I drank another dog gone Diet Coke.  Yes.  I am serious.  I was jonesing for it badly.  And, I figured the caffeine would probably knock the top of the alcohol buzz anyway.  So, that couldn’t be bad.  Then, I filled my liter water bottle with water and drank the whole thing.   I always try to chase my liquor with a bunch of water.  God knows what that does for my blood sugar level.  But, regardless, it definitely helps with getting your body’s water level back to norm so you don’t wake up completely dehydrated the next morning……..Dan.

Well, friends, in 2013, I did 3 or 4 months of photographing everything I ate and adding explanatory dialogue about why I ate what I was eating.  I did it for an old-time friend of many years who weighed about 340 pounds at the time.  Although he never took the time to read a word of it after I presented it to him, I still believe that you can find value in the words and pictures contained in my daily posts.

Why the dialogue?  Well, because, it seems that the whole world has their own idea of how to “eat right”.  And, in all fairness, I am not sure that I agree that any of them comes close to matching the efficiency AND ease of eating low-glycemic (like I do.)  So, the dialogue is my way of explaining why I am eating what I am eating.

I do not count calories.  I do not count anything actually.   I eat when I am hungry.   And, I eat whatever I want….and, pretty much as much as I want….

I just make sure that the things I am putting in my mouth have low glycemic indexes.  That is to say, I make sure that nothing that goes in my mouth will cause my body’s internal glucose and insulin level to spike.   Well, wait.  That’s not 100% true.  I do “cheat” at least once per week.  Especially on Saturday night date night with my dear wife.  And, quite frankly, I think that your mind and body needs that cheat occasionally.  You can either call it a shock to the system.  Or, you can call it a mental reprieve.  But, I make sure that french fries go into this body at least once a week.  And, usually a big bacon cheeseburger (with everything on it) accompanies them in my belly.

Why do I think that the low-glycemic way of eating is better than any of the other methods I hear being touted at the gym and in our world at large?  Well, I look around at the people with whom I have been exercising daily for the last 35 years.  I compare their physical appearance results with my own results.  I watched what happened to my own dear wife the year that she finally decided to eat what David eats.   I watched what happened to my brother and his wife when they made the switch.  Simply put, it works.  And, it is SUSTAINABLE. 

Everyone that knows me knows that I am a bit of an obsessive compulsive.   Most of you also know that I took almost a whole year “off” from the gym for the only time in my life last year.  I still did a little Crossfit….but, about 4 to 6 times per month….instead of 4 to 6 times per week.

During that interim of barely exercising at all, I never noticed a change in what I was seeing as I passed the full length mirror in our master bath on my way to the shower each day.  Of course, my ability to do volume exercise eventually dropped quite sharply.  But, my body didn’t get fat.

Why not?  Because I was still eating stuff that did not spike my blood sugar.  And, I actually reduced the amount of food that went into my mouth during that year…..because, quite frankly, I just wasn’t as hungry without the exercise stimulus demanding more calories from my brain.

DO YOU NEED A DOC EXPLAINING WHY THIS WORKS TO YOU TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE?  IF SO, HERE YOU GO:  

https://justeatwhatieat.com/a-video-and-explanation-of-eating-low-glycemic-this-is-what-really-made-it-click-for-me-you-must-watch/

SPECIAL NOTE:  I have also eaten low fat, high complex carb, high protein.

Actually, that is how I ate (or tried to eat) for about 25 years.   Yes.  You can achieve the same lean body look that we all want by eating that way.  But, the problem is, it is simply NOT sustainable.  No bacon.  Almost no fat.  No sugar.  No nothing but carbs and protein.  I remember eating 8 chicken breasts in a day.  Two cups of oatmeal.  Eggs.  And, three tons of steamed broccoli.  No butter!  Of course.  No sauces, of course.  Nothing that might contain fat (or taste.)

And, the results were very predictable.   I was up and down all the time with my bodyfat level.   The pictures of me below were taken within 12 months of each other.  One was late 1995, the year my wife and I met.  The next picture is me in mid 1996.  I wish I had a picture from 1997, because I looked like the guy from the 1995 picture.

In all fairness, I have only been as bad as the 1996 picture guy a very few times in my lifetime.  But, that was enough for me to understand that I do NOT have a miracle metabolism.  I am not a genetic freak that can basically eat whatever he wants and always look like Wolverine.   I am someone that has to understand what is going into his mouth and who has to make sure he is making good decisions when he ingests something…………

If I eat like David eats, I look like I looked two mornings ago in this picture.  It ain’t perfect.  But, it’s my body’s version of “as good as I can get.”  And, I look like this year round.  Not just for summer.  Not just for that special trip to Aruba with your honey.  This is every single day.

If not, fat David happens! 

Simple as that.  Just like everyone else on this Earth.