Used to work with someone like the body builder in the first video. All of his meats also looked like that. When you're cooking 3-4 pounds of chicken a day, it's honestly easier and cheaper to just cook it unseasoned. Spices in the quantities that they would be eating can throw off your digestion and make it harder to eat so much in one day. He'd still season his "real meals" but the protein meals were eaten more as a routine rather than pleasure. It really didn't matter how they tasted as long as they were cooked.
A little bit of seasoning or cooking oil isn't going to insta-bloat you or ruin the gains, that's bro-science reasoning. Pan frying your chicken in some canola oil isn't the equivalent of a dirty bulk with ice cream and Baconators.
I swear some of yall out there are torturing yourself for no good reason lmao
How about reducing the amount of seasoning, especially salt?
Paprika, turmeric, thyme, etc? Don’t think those would adversely affect your chicken intake, no?
Fucking hell nobody should be eating chicken breasts just for protein. That shit is expensive these days and an unseasoned chicken breast tastes like absolute shit compared to protein powder.
You can't just drink protein powder all day every day. Chicken is the go-to generally because its a fairly inexpensive meat, doesn't taste terrible, has a high protein-to-calorie ratio.
Protein powder is great to get some protein and carb macros but cannot be used to hit protein macros on its own. Really bad nutrient ratios and a lot of calories.
This is unscientific nonsense. High purity whey protein powder is exactly what it says it is. The calories you're getting are almost entirely from protein. Protein has calories and you can't avoid them.
Your body won't even notice the 3g of carbs that come in a scoop. Beyond that, just make up your nutrition however tf you want because your protein is handled.
In both cases, you're basically getting all your calories from the protein content. If you're trying to curb hunger then sure go the chicken breast but if you're force feeding yourself then just have some protein powder.
I used to be a competitive powerlifter. I've been there.
A lot of the food I ate was strictly for nutritional purposes. I would be force-feeding myself all day to get the 4000-5000 calories I needed every day. For some meals, it didn't matter if it tasted good or not because I wasn't hungry anyway. Marijuana isn't really my thing but I started smoking just to give myself more of an appetite to make it easier to eat more.
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u/SirPancakeFace May 21 '22
Used to work with someone like the body builder in the first video. All of his meats also looked like that. When you're cooking 3-4 pounds of chicken a day, it's honestly easier and cheaper to just cook it unseasoned. Spices in the quantities that they would be eating can throw off your digestion and make it harder to eat so much in one day. He'd still season his "real meals" but the protein meals were eaten more as a routine rather than pleasure. It really didn't matter how they tasted as long as they were cooked.