 Question is from Omnivorous Adam. You guys talk about the importance of eating high quality, healthy food, yet besides Doug, we rarely hear any of you speak about what you cook at home. What's your favorite go-to dish that you cook for yourself at home? It's mainly because it's a lame conversation. Who do you eat, bro? Yeah, I think that's, I think we've discussed before, like, yeah, I'm boring. Well, no, that's just, that's the thing to do in the fucking fitness space, do is take pictures of your fucking food every single day. I saw a value in it when I was competing, so people could, I was tracking and I was measuring and weighing all my food so people could see and I was listing my macronutrients, but I think all of us, I mean, I'll start, I can't speak, I'll speak for myself. It's pretty boring. Yesterday, I had coffee, I skipped breakfast, mainly because I know that I wasn't moving very much. I didn't get it, the day before I hadn't got a workout in, so I didn't eat any breakfast at all. All I had was my coffee, lunchtime. I went and met with our friend, Jordan Harbinger and had Luna. At Luna, I ate and Luna is a local farm to table Mexican restaurant that is here that we all love and I got steak, I got steak fajitas. I passed on the sour cream and the guacamole and all I had was the rice, beans and the meat. Tasty stuff. Yeah, well, yeah, but I guess what's good about this conversation is here's an example of how my eating changes day by day a little bit, but I'm not neurotic about it to where I'm weighing or measuring right now. I know my movement and my calorie burn and my training is significantly low right now. If I'm training hard and I'm consistent and I'm burning a lot, I'll enjoy the chips and guacamole, I'll have the tortillas with my steak fajitas and I'll intake that extra three to 500 calories because I know I can afford it. I would have had, I would have got up and had a big eggs and bacon type of breakfast and probably a green juice to start my day off. Like that, if I'm burning a lot, but because I'm not, I make these little subtle adjustments. I pass on the chips and guac, I don't eat the tortilla, I skipped breakfast that day. But I mean, I feel like our food isn't that weird or different than anybody else. Dinner time, I had, okay, here's another example. Katrina, we make ground turkey tacos a lot. When I know that I'm not burning a lot of calories, I opt out on the tacos and I make taco salad. Why do I do that? Well, when I have tacos, I could literally have those little taco shells, I can crush eight to 10 of those things. And you know what? When I'm burning 4,000 plus calories, I don't give a fuck, I'll eat the tacos. It's ground turkey tacos, it's got some lettuce and salsa in it. We just sprinkle a little bit of cheese in there. It's really not that bad for me to intake that much calories. But instead of that, what I do is make a taco salad. And so she takes two of the taco shells that I would normally eat eight to 10 and I make a taco salad instead of having tacos. So I mean, that was my day yesterday to give you an idea of how I eat. And that's a pretty regular kind of day for me. And you know, there's things that I add in there change. We rotate meats a lot. So we eat a lot of bison the day before that. We had bison and sweet potato. We eat a lot of veal. There's this quinoa pasta thing that we like, like the pasta type of noodle, but it's made out of like quinoa or some shit like that. It's higher protein, lower glycemic. And we have that with bison or veal. I do a lot of chicken thighs and that one's a boring one. Chicken thighs, rice and some sort of a green broccoli, asparagus is normally a go-to for me. You know, I don't think that I'm eating it at Brussels sprouts. I eat a lot of those. So on a day when I wanna stay away from eating a ton of calories, I'll have just a giant bowl of Brussels sprouts with a little bit of bacon, the recipe that Doug shares. Yeah, I mean, to me, that's a pretty normal kind of like rotation of food. What about you guys? Yeah, you're right. It's boring. Yeah, I know. Well, that's all I mean, maybe. No, no, no. I was just watching the paint peel. No, no, no, here's the deal. People wanna know because we, you know, we represent, you know, fitness and health. Here's the thing with food, okay? Food has a lot of different kinds of value, okay? And one of the main ones that we understand in the fitness space is the physiological value. Proteins, fats, carbs, calories, micronutrients, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients that may be in plant, all these wonderful things that are healthy for your body. But there's other values to food. Like I was just in Maui, okay? I'm in Hawaii. I'm on vacation. And I always laugh because when I'm doing this, I'm like, I wonder if there's any mind pump listeners watching me right now because you know what I'm eating for breakfast? Locomoco. You know what Locomoco is? It is a local Hawaiian breakfast dish. Fried beans and eggs over the rice. Yeah, so it's rice with two eggs over easy, a hamburger patty and this brown gravy that is, you know, a part of Hawaii. Or I'm having spam eggs and rice. I never eat spam, but why am I eating them? I know Hawaii, fuck, I'm gonna, the value of the food at that time is to complete the, for me at least, it could be different for other people. But for me, it's to complete the experience of being in Maui. I had shaved ice in Maui where they shaved the ice and they put the, you know, the fake colored sugary stuff on it. And I'm enjoying myself, but I also had lots of fish. Why did I have lots of fish? Again, I'm in Hawaii. There's a lot of fish there that's caught that morning and I'm gonna eat that afternoon. You know, I'm eating mahi that the dude just brought in this morning and it's on my, you know, my fish tacos. So if you, you have that kind of relationship with food and you understand it's true values and then you understand the kind of value that you need, you're gonna be okay. Most of the time, most of the time, the value that I place on food is like, what Adam's talking about. I'm eating things that are healthy for my physical body, but not always, not always. Sometimes I'm gonna enjoy certain foods because that at that moment, that's the value that that food is bringing me. Well, I think the important thing, and when Justin gets to his turn, what you're gonna find with us. Cheese and barbecue sauce. It'll be real quick. I think the thing that is, that's important and even like listening to you Sal and kind of like replaying what I was saying about the thing that I think that the best takeaway that somebody can get from probably us talking about our nutrition is that we're not neurotic like 90% of the fitness space. No, we used to be. I used to be neurotic about my food. And it wasn't healthy. And at the same time, although we're not neurotic to where we're weighing, measuring and doing all those things, I'm not saying that there's not value to that. Like if I was at a place in my life right now where we were, let's say we had a bet, like, you know, who is gonna fucking build the most muscle right now or let's get on stage in six months. Like, you bet your ass, like the scales coming out. I'm fucking prepping every single week. I'm carrying my food around. I'm getting serious about if I'm gonna make the greatest change in the fastest amount of time, there's gonna be no room for air. But in my life right now, that's just not a priority. I don't give a shit. And I don't give a shit about anybody who's gonna judge me if I'm fucking 14% body fat compared to 9% body fat or 6%. I don't give a shit about what somebody thinks right now. See, that's the key when you start to understand all the values of food and you understand the values that you really need and you have a good relationship with yourself, then you're gonna sit somewhere that's healthy. You're gonna sit somewhere to body fat percentage that is healthy. You're gonna have decent strength and performance. It's something that you can have forever and long term. Are you gonna be shredded? No, I don't think there's very few people that could be shredded without having to measure and count everything. So if you wanna be super, super diced, you're probably gonna have to do that. But here's some news break for you. Being shredded all the time is not healthy typically, physically or psychologically. So at some point, if you wanna have a healthy life and you wanna do this forever, at some point you have to really understand the total values of food and it's a stress, it's more of a stress-free way of eating. Where again, I was on vacation, I'm not freaking out because I'm eating shaved ice, locomocos and whatever. It's part of the experience. I'm gonna get home. I'm not on vacation anymore. I don't need to complete the value of my hometown. I live here all the time. So I'm gonna eat foods that are physiologically healthy for me most of the time. Again, because that's the value. Look, I had dinner at my mom's house last night. Now, this was a Sunday dinner. We had a lot of family over. I actually posted a video of it on my Instagram. It was about 20-something people there. So I'm gonna enjoy the moment. So what did I do? I ate pasta with sauce, ate some sausage and some meatballs. My dad made this chicken dish that we had and we had some vegetables and some salad. I had some bread because, but my aunt brought some fresh French bread because at that moment, the value of that food wasn't necessarily the physiological value of getting me shredded or fueling my body for a crazy workout. The value was I'm enjoying my family and we bond over food and we're having great conversation. We're enjoying this together. All right, let me get mine out before this goes for an hour. Yeah, besides like cheese and, you know, barbecue sauce and a lot of shit you guys, you know, make fun of me for, I do like actually pay attention on some level. I'm not neurotic, obviously, but I do try to make sure that I don't eat processed food. That's one that I know right away is gonna affect me in a negative way. So anything that's gonna like affect me to where I'm gonna feel the physical ailments that it's gonna present me. And like, this is where too, where some elements of like grains, gluten, things like that that's been in my diet before that I've like really kind of pinpointed that this causes me at night to get up because I have like bad acid reflux and I have like these other, you know, gastrointestinal issues. Like I'm gonna try and steer clear of that kind of thing. And so, and then the other thing is like in the mornings with breakfast, like I really try to eat breakfast. I went so long not eating breakfast that I feel like that really had a detriment on my metabolism. And so I've tried to incorporate that and bring that back. And then I will actually like, that's one of the things where I manipulate a lot based off of my activity. If I'm more active, I'm gonna, you know, make sure I'm really getting that breakfast. And when I'm less active, I'm not. And so my carbs are really just, you know, potatoes and rice. And like that's where I'm sprinkling that in, you know, based off of like, you know, how much I'm working out and doing things. Otherwise, I'm really just trying to stick with vegetables and meat as much as I possibly can. And then enjoying, you know, company, if I'm with somebody, I'm not gonna be super like anal about what's in front of me, other than like, I might not eat as much of it because I'm like, oh, shit, it's gonna kill me, you know, like, or, you know, sometimes I might be all in. And you know, like that might happen. And it's just like, it's not a big deal. Yeah, you brought up the breakfast thing. You know, they just had a study that came out actually sent it to Max Lugavir for him to share that people who eat earlier in the day increases the amount of calories that their bodies burn. So calories versus calories out still, of course, applies, but you can change the calories out by the timing of your food. And they're actually found in the study that eating your meals earlier in the day increases the amount of calories your body burns, processing the food. It's pretty logical. When you eat it in the evening. So, and it's not a huge difference. It's not gonna be a game changer for a lot of people, but it is a difference. It's kind of interesting.