 YouTube what's up? Mike, 8 o'clock in the morning. Don't mind the hair because we don't really like get ready like that, but welcome to the first official. I've probably said it a million times. I might be the only fitness YouTuber that's never really done a full day of eating. Now I can't talk that good right now. I've had no caffeine in my system. It's 8.30. I got up about 7. I've been banging out on the laptop for about an hour. We got another hour or so. And what that looks like for me is upkeep with emails, looking at kind of like marketing stuff for the gym, what needs to be pushed, promoted, classes, memberships, etc. and a lot of clothing. So a lot of communication with the logistics and the timing and just upkeep on what's going on with the apparel. So the newest drop will be like November-ish. Hopefully is the goal, you know. And again it's all on me to get that timing right and try not to mess everything up. But the hair is messed up because it's straight to the laptop. Then a little caffeine. Sometimes it's coffee. Today we've got a monster. 9 carb. We're not counting that. So right now I'm in a diet break, but I'm still going to eat very similar foods I did that when I was cutting. If you guys haven't paid attention, I lost about 60 pounds over the last year or so, year and a half. Dieting really hard for the last couple months. So right now I'm in a little bit of a chill phase. I'm going to eat a lot of same foods, but maybe replace some of the chicken and turkey with a little red meat. Maybe on a weekend I might have a burrito or I'm going to let a cookie slide or whatever it might be. So I'm not going to be as toyed as I was when I was straight cutting. Cardio is actually up a little bit because I got a little more carbs on me. I got some energy, but generally the training is the same and diets just a little bit more relaxed. So come along with me. Normally I have coffee, but we're getting a little bit late start today. Non-training day today, rest day just cardio and abs probably. I'm going to head to the gym in a bit, check in with the squad Wednesday's meeting day. So not a lot of super exciting stuff, but I'll let you guys get a little sneak peek on what it looks like behind the scenes at 3rd Street Barbell. Good company. Stay tuned, like the video, comment below what you guys want to know about diets and training. We'll cover an upcoming videos. I'm going to go bang out some laptops. Shit, chug this caffeine shower. Hair still a little messed up, but nothing crazy. Vintage tea, old Barbell Gay sweatshorts, I think some 993s. Cutting that part of year here in Northern California where it does get really pretty, but it's really cold in the morning. It's like, you know, not really cold. I know y'all in fucking East Western Dakotas are going to get mad, but it's like 40s, 50s. We need a hoodie, but it's going to be 80 or 90 degrees later. So, you know, I go hoodie on the way in the word, on the way to the gym and take it off after. We need to go grocery shopping after we handle some BSness. So it's meeting day. Typically I have like a content style meeting, which is kind of wrapped into marketing. I have a group meeting, so a whole team meeting, which is all gym staff, everybody involved. And then we have kind of a training meeting, which right now is me and Avi, our lead trainer at the gym. And then I'll probably go grocery shopping, which means me to point number one is we all know diet, right? Diet means the food we're putting in our fucking bodies. And when I talk about cutting, I'm talking about burning fat. I don't care what anyone says. It's about calorie deficit. Say whatever the hell you want. It's simply about burning more calories than we eat in a day. And doing that for a very long period of time while training hard, high intensity, high volumes, relative, will maintain our muscle and strength best we can. Someone asked about how do you maintain strength during a cut? And who's calling me? The hell's calling me this early? Stop. Stop calling me. So that's calorie deficits, right? And that's the basics. That's what we're all going to know. But beyond that, and I think this is the whole, you know, holistic approach to this bullshit is about habits and strategies. So let's talk about keto and carnivore and intermittent fasting and all these things. I consider those diet strategies, nutritional strategies. And I don't know if this has been talked about in this way, but that's how I see things. So what strategy fits best for how I feel, you know, that matters physically, emotionally, spiritually. I do kind of intermittent fast. I don't eat breakfast, right? It's going on 930, 10 o'clock, I might have a protein bar when we get to the gym, but I don't eat breakfast because it slows me down mentally. I like caffeine, and I like to feel light in my tum tum and light in my brain brain. And that's how I shmob through all my logistical work, right? And all that holistic approach. So that's how I organize my entire day. What work or what things, what activities do I need to do at what time? How do I schedule them to make me feel and perform my best? And that doesn't mean how many deadlifts reps I do, although that matters. It means how do I emotionally am the happiest? How am I, how am I feeling the best? And how can I give the most to those around me? How can I be in the best mood and the best productivity with each business and each step that I take? And so that's how I plan my days. And that's why early morning, 7 to 9, even before I started vlogging, I was totally by myself. Totally by myself in my head, just me and some caffeine working through the work that I actually don't enjoy. You know, the emails and the count numbers and the talking to people that don't want to do their work and checking up on everybody and everything. I don't enjoy that. I'm not a good boss. I like to think I'm a decent leader, but I'm not a good boss. So I take most of my energy in the beginning of the day to do that, kind of like how we do our workouts, right? We do the big barbell compound movements first, because that takes the most physical and mental energy. And then we go do our calf raises. Then we go do our biceps and we go do our abs. So that's how I organize my day. Meetings and stuff are kind of middle ground for me, because I got to be a boss and I don't love doing that. So that's kind of middle of the day. And then end of the day is the easy stuff for me. We're going to go grocery shopping. I'm going to do a shopping haul, which again goes to the habits, building habits, eating the same thing every day, finding foods that you enjoy, that you can eat every day that fits your, you know, your cut or your bulk or whatever it is. Nutritional strategy wise, finding what kind of strategies, again, the intermittent fasting I don't eat all day. I don't eat until like a big meal until two or three, then I'll get protein in throughout the day, two or three big meals at the end of the day, just protein bar in the morning to get a little protein, a little synthesis going to make sure I'm nice and jacked. Oh, I'll try a new recipe. I'll show I'll cook like one or two meals that I normally do to show you how I eat real basic, quick, easy, still like high protein, low carb, low fat. And then we're going to try one new recipe today. I had some protein oat deals overnight oat deals at this coffee shop. And it straight up changed my life. I've seen them and they sound good, but I never cooked it. And so now we're going to make our own probably some berries, a little chocolate chip, protein oats. When we go to the store, I probably won't film in the store. I don't want to get yelled at maybe a little bit, but then we'll do a grocery haul. Let's get it. Not sponsored probably should be the best protein bar hands down ever made by any human ever. I'll eat like a body with a builder climb bar builder bar. And I'll eat the old school metrics big ass 1000 bar. But other than that, bear bells, the only bar I eat in this cashew, whatever one's a bank, not absolutely the best, but not the worst, right? Eight fat, 20 carb, 20 protein, but I'm dieting. That's pretty high fat. Actually, like when I'm dieting, dieting, I'm only getting like 20, 30, 40 grams of fat a day, depending on the carbs. But now again, we're not as worried. But the rest of the day when I'm getting my protein sources, I just try to get things that are super low fat. That's why we're eating turkey, chicken the rest of the day. All right, dude, two breakfast foods. One, when you get to go crazy, what's your breakfast? And then one, when you're trying to be like power lifter kid, what's your breakfast? I think both would just be chicken and waffles, bro. Dude, that's not healthy chicken and waffles. You mean like trying to diet? Yeah, yeah, when you're trying to be when you're thinking about maybe you're maybe living past 40, when you're trying to maybe live past 40, what are you choosing that's not chicken and waffles? Chicken and waffles bang. Yeah, I'm not everyone's like sweet and savory sweet and savory. That doesn't always work. But chicken and waffles, it hits. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. For a second, for like a cool year, I was doing like protein, fresh shows, like egg whites. Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, if you get a little protein, nutty bread, and you dump it in some egg whites, and then you can find like sugar free or low sugar syrup. Yeah, that could bang. I got a booby pump. Oh, titty pump. Yeah, I got a tatter pump. Did he add hers? Look at them tatters. Little baby ace. Full day of eating? Full day of eating. So that's the question, dude. What are you just doing the vlog? So the question is breakfast. What's your go to if calories don't count? What's the go to breakfast? You get anything you want under the sun. On the go breakfast, like I got to work. No, this is your miracle birthday retirement. You get to just sit and eat anything. Oh my god. Damn, for some reason, I'm going towards pancakes. Pancakes, eggs and bacon. Can't go wrong with that. No, that's a hit. No, it's like very, keep it simple. How do you do your eggs toast? I was just thinking that. I don't like eggs. I love eggs. I love it. I'll eat them. So then what are we eating when it's like a power pro powerlifter aufy mode? What's a breakfast? Coffee cake? No, okay. If I'm cutting to, I haven't had this in a while, oatmeal with honey and eggs. Together? You mix the eggs into them. You don't taste it. Trust me. It's good. Egg whites in there? I'm making egg whites and like two egg whites and one egg white, one whole egg. I'm doing overnight pro's tonight for the vlog. You don't like that? We just for the vlog. Are you faking it? No, speaking of faking it, I didn't want a lot of y'all. I just ate a cookie. I didn't vlog it, but I ate it. I ate the cookie. I ate a chewy. It wasn't even worth it. That's how I know I'm fat because that's like a shit cookie. Yeah, it's definitely not worth the cows. What's a chewy co-host not hostess? Chips ahoy chewy is trash. But I'm talking about in other vlogs where I just love gas stations because they got so many different variety and shit. And then it's mostly because like, I like a lot of drinks and like snackies and our back office is a mess but it's kind of like that. So this is an extra cold blue who knows how it ended up there but I'm stealing it and then a Diet Coke and we're on to meeting number two. Me and Abby just talked about some marketing stuff for her classes and coaching and then now we're diving into content with Seabass and Abby our assistant to the assistant producer of the YouTube channel. So she'll sit in on the meeting. We'll talk about that and then the crew rolls in and we'll have another big meeting. Egg whites and oatmeal sound disgusting. I do a full grocery haul just stepped out of the grocery store when I get home. But I want to rant on my snacks. One of the biggest things when I talk about like parameters or nutritional strategies, some of the parameters I set for myself is like two to three veggies a day, two to three fruits a day and every meal I have when I'm dieting and every thing I eat has to be a meal. So I'm going two to three meals a day and I'm always trying to focus on veggie and protein and then the rest we fit it in. Obviously I'm tracking macros but when you build those as the guidelines it becomes a lot more easier. Now that I'm chilling now we can snack. You literally just eat three meals a day and focus on protein. You're probably going to be much closer to your fitness goals than not. Snacking obviously messes things up. Yeah added calories. You're not thinking I'm eating on stress. I'm stressed right now. So I did get a snack but I'm not dieting. So it's a little bit different. This is the new go-to bro. It's always been a piece of the puzzle but Tillamook this thing's insane. One gram of fat, zero grams of carbs and 14 protein for one ounce of jerky. So jerky is a go-to and then rice cakes always. These ones are a little crazy. I want a little crazy with these ones. They're like cheddar. You know it's basically a Dorito and rice cake form. So that's like five fat. Although I'm not dieting, I'm not tracking strictly. I'm still paying attention to things right. I don't want to go crazy because I think we're going to start a strength block right now and we're going to try to hit a little PR. We're going to do a series on it. This is just a little teaser but we're going to break it down and then cruise through the holidays so I could have some fun. Enjoy myself. Try not to gain too much weight. Just a slow bulk. More mental break and then we're going to go crazy back to the shreds life in January. So stay tuned for the strength block but that's basically how we eat. Now that I can relax and I can snack a little bit, I'm still making good choices right. Same when I go out to eat I'll indulge a little bit. I'll have dessert here and there but on the day to day you can't let every occasion, every birthday, it's always somebody's birthday. You can't have every birthday, you can't have cake on everybody's fucking birthday right. So we got to make wise decisions that still go towards our goals right. We always got to keep our goals in mind. So I got the jerky, get a little protein in some of this and then we'll go home and we'll cook up the first meal of the day. I'm absolutely starving so I'm trying to whip through this grocery haul. Boom. 100 calorie popcorn. I ate two of these bags. Macros are cake man. Two fat, 22 carb, three protein. A lot of volume for the carbs you get. Basic rolled oats. That's just to make the protein overnight oats. Brass berries. Berries taste pretty good. Add them to your yogurt. Add them to your protein oats. Add them to your oats. Eat them by them damn cells. Blackberries and blueberries. More oats, ain't nothing fancy. Fairlife milk for those that don't know. Stats are insane. Zero fat, six carb, and 13 protein. I'm going to drink that when I want to drink that. I'm also going to make the oats with it. So you make the overnight oats with a little bit of liquid. So I chose that for my liquid for extra protein. Trobani. This is literally the diet miracle. Trobani, non-fat, no sugar, nothing crazy. For one serving is six carb, 16 protein. It's a protein shake and everyone talks about like sweet and savory but there's like a third deal on a sour. It's like a sour so it's kind of sweet. You throw some berries in here, throw a little apple in there. Sometimes I'll sprinkle some chocolate chips. Boom, Spang. Easy cake. Show you that in the car. Got another one of those to eat on. It's just a cauliflower rice with broccoli mixed in. It's a little overpriced probably for what you get but I eat this entire bag. The entire bag's 12 carb, six protein. That's it. And it's so voluminous. So that's what I'm going to have for lunch. This guy plus some elk. Shout out to Kyle. Shout out to Kyle's dad, my roommate, my GM of the Third Street Barbell. His dad caught a elk and gave us some meat. So I got ground elk. I'm going to cook that up and throw it in here. That's going to be lunch. We're going to make the produce. The only thing I bought that I didn't show you guys were a million different kinds of peanut butter because I don't know which one I want. This is caramel peanut butter or something. That's lower fat. And then PB2 you guys probably seen it's like a no fat protein peanut butter and I'm going to make a different mixture for each protein oats. So we're going to start right now. So all you got to do is do one cup of oatsies. That's it. I'm doing it over the sink so I don't spill and also because it's the best place to show you guys. So there's half a cup, half a cup and then you're going to go equal parts liquid. I think I might have got mason jars that are too small. So I'm using that fair life remember. So you're going to go fair life equal parts. So it means one cup is what we're doing for one serving. All I got is a half cup measuring deal but it'll work. It'll flow Joe. Now I don't got a funnel but no we're good. So half a cup of coffee and then you're going to do 50% of what you're doing with those. So we've got a cup of each of those and I'm going to go half a cup of yogurt for some of the texture. I don't know if it's all yogurt or if it's just me because it's like liquid top. Just pour that shit out. I don't really know what it is. You know where things start to separate. So I'm going to go half a cup of this bad boy right. I probably need a spoon. I'm going to try to get this in here somehow. Not really sure how. Well it worked. We're working. We're flowing. Don't don't don't judge this dude. I ain't emerald. I ain't a chef. And then maybe I'll say the peanut butters for when we're partying. You know when it's done it's mixed up and then you create the magic and maybe I'll show you guys that in a different video or maybe the night for dessert. Then I literally think you just do one of these bad boys and you shake her up. That's it, cut. We do a scoop of protein fam. We got the Greek yogurt in the fair life. That's pretty good right. Yeah I think that's full. So because I just got little mason jars I'm not going to do anything until it's done. Hopefully it doesn't expand and explode. I might have to do like smaller servings. And then I'll say the peanut butter from when we top it off but that's it. Rits for repeat. I'm going to make four of these throw them in the fridge. And then it's time to cook this juicy boy. Holy nutrition. So I'm going to cook this and then mix it with that. Truth is it ain't got to be fancy. It's just got to be tasty and efficient. And so here we are. We got a little bit of cauliflower rice with some green beans underneath or green peas. Peas, green peas not the beans. There's the beans the beans within the peas. And elk on top. That's it bro. All I hit it with a little bit of lettuce or a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper. And she's ready to go. So overall that meal normally takes me 10-15 minutes to make. The macros are obviously insane depending on the meat you use. I put about a pound and then I use a whole case of that cauliflower rice which is like 12 carb and 6 protein dough fat. So you can't really beat it and you're eating like two pounds of food. So for me I'm very hungry. I love eating food. And so it allows me to eat a big old meal with not crazy macros or sorry without crazy calories. It still tastes good. I'm up a diet. Dr. Pepper. And I'm going to get back on the laptop and chill for a bit. You guys are in the fridge right now. It's kind of a sick view. Let's see how this looks. Dude. It's like I'm a YouTuber or something. The protein oats are right here. Bang it out. We probably won't be able to eat them today because they won't be ready to like eat tonight but I'll eat them tomorrow. And then my next meal will probably be some kind of mixture of all this mess. But there you go. There's a little fridge fucking. Tore, sauces, creamers, veggies, fruits, sodies, protein. Pretty basic. I keep it pretty empty. I'm not the guy that says like oh you got to be so into moderation and if you can't have a cookie without you know whatever track your cookie shut up bitch. I had troubles with food man. I've been addicted to food. I've had a not great relationship with food and I know there's certain foods that trigger my appetite. So what do I do is I don't keep cookies and ice cream in my house. Suss them because I'm going to eat the whole damn thing. I'll eat cookies and ice cream but it's on a special occasion or I'm going to go out and get it. I'm going to make it in a thing and I'll make sure it's delicious. That's where the Oreos are overrated type shit started where I'm not going to just have Oreos in my house so I just eat Oreos all day. I'm going to go get like a legitimate baked cookie from a bakery if I'm going to eat a cookie and enjoy it. Otherwise I'm eating meat and veggies and fruit and staying jacked. I'm going to go chill. Let's go. Before y'all call me an old man I normally get to bed at like seven o'clock and that's just because my brain runs like crazy and unless I'm laying in bed I'm going to like find a way to work or be like productive and I'm not saying I'm on that grind set mindset grind culture shit but there's something I'm going to do to like not relax and so I need to shut my shit down so I'll go to bed at like seven seven thirty eight o'clock or at least start the nighttime routine. So I get my last meal in at six and then I'm going to straight asleep by like nine thirty ten again I'm not on that grind set shit I'm for sleep fam I'm for you to sleep 20 hours a day for all I give a shit but here's our progress I think I messed up one of these oats and it's supposed to be in there again four four hours plus but this one um I don't think I put enough liquid in yeah that's r2d2 toaster don't trip but so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to dress this guy up so I got this happening and again we're not necessarily dieting so we're going to eat both of those in there and then and then this is the chocolate chips I used to throw into my Greek yogurt when I was dieting I'm going to do a full day of eating on a cut after we hit the strength series and then you guys will see like what diet life looks like this is like moderation you know go by the feel intuitive eating life so I'm going to throw some chocolate but what I used to do is Greek yogurt shit ton little protein powder and then just a sprinkle of chocolate chips one serving of chocolate chips like four grams of fat no just make that um you know sugar-free non-fat frozen yogurt a little bit more enjoyable but I'm gonna dress this up and see if it looks good or tastes good and then this will be the last meal of the day I don't know if that's like eat it because I tried it and it tastes a little yogurt-y so maybe I put too much yogurt in these guys but you know how it goes when you are making new recipe you slowly adjust this up first time me making I've eaten it before but I never made it like this and how about this I throw this in the fridge you guys put your peanut butter in the fridge or you put in the counter yeah no one said put in the fridge so I'll put these back in the counter um back in the pantry and I'm gonna eat this thing I'm gonna head to bed and hopefully you guys enjoyed a little bit of what I eat with some of the fam eats at the gym again that's Kyle Seabass and Ivy my squad hopefully we're gonna fit them in vlogs a little bit more and the strength series is starting soon so I haven't decided what or who my coach is but I'm gonna PR on some shit come December I'll give a fuck so it's time to get after it a little diet break time to beef up a little bit I want to stay you know relatively lean I'm gonna keep the cardio up but we're gonna get strong I'm gonna eat this thing I'm ahead the bed I'll catch the next one be sure to like this thing comment below what you guys want to see I appreciate you guys support so much man reviving the channel slowly but surely and we'll cut you in the next one man we over maybe a part of something bigger yourself there is b.co so I might come out