If only one person loses weight or changes lifestyle for the better because of “Eddie” then its a good thing
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One of the reasons I liked StrongLifts was the authors blunt attitude and calling bullshit on fluff and nonsense every five minutes. He did the smart thing and stayed off social media though. Put his material out there and let people get the fuck on with it.
Been reading the Eddie FB page.
Full of absolute fucking moronic advice. Think I’m with James Smith on this one - folk wondering why they have no energy for work outs. Yes sure if you’re going for a walk eat peanut butter all day but if you want to actually train…
I got IBS long before I ate my first bagel…
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I hear this in a lot of other situations…but the real answer is no, if it means many others are turned away from exercise or controlling intake…
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Yeah the problem is the ideas in principle are fine - but impractical for many people, who may end up injuring themselves or not able to exercise following a self imposed restricted diet… any kind of evangelicalism to be avoided.
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except for mine, of course…
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I did think that after I typed my response, but thought it would be a given, do no harm and then if one person improves after that you are winning.
he is a knob though so not sure anyone will improve although his protein bar take was good, the sugar in many of those bars is shocking and the people eating them are paying 4 times the price of what they really want to eat because its sold as “healthy”
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He’s calling out the £10 bottles of hydration drinks that Jake and Logan Paul have had marketed
It’s his first video I’ve seen where he tones it down and gives a well presented, reasoned talk. And he totally decimates the product
Where did these Paul brothers come from?!
Modern society, sadly.
Worth a 5 min watch:
Processed food is bad, companies want to sell more to make more $, processed food is iterated to a version that you’ll want to eat more of.
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What’s “processed” food?
I make my own brioche buns and burgers from beef, using the mincing attachment on my stand mixer.
Is that processed?
Also - chicken is low in saturated fats, so is sunflower oil…but if I dredge the chicken in some seasoned flour and then deep fry it in sunflower oil, does it become high in saturated fats?
No thats home made. You are controlling what goes in it. Processed is anything that comes made up of more than a couple of ingredients. Bread is processed. Store bought burgers are. Making you own bread and burgers not processed.
Processing adds a lot of salt and fat and thats bad.
Olive oil is the way forward. Some say you shouldnt cook with it because of the low smoke point. But if you keep the temp low its the best because olienaic acid, prevents oxidation and no other oil has it.
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So, if I’m making my own sausages = not processed???
Processed? Yes. Probably. The mincing of the meat is processing.
Ultra Processed? No. Unless you’re adding weird emulsifiers and lecithins and the like.
(Or at least that’s my understanding, but who knows!)
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Yeah this. Yes you are processing raw ingredients into something else. But the problem with factory processed or ultra processing is the additionof gat, salt, and chemicals to add saiety and fake flavour and to prolong the shelf life.
I make my own chicken stock, it will last a few days in the fridge or you freeze it. What crap must be added for the shit in the supermarket that can sit on a shelf for weeks on end.
Its knowing whats in it that counts abd making your own of anything you are largely in control of that.
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Salt and removal of water, neither of which are “crap”, the fully liquid stock you buy in the fridge section lasts the same duration as your home made stuff - well probably slightly longer on average as less chance of contamination.
Personally I struggle with the “ultra-processed is there to add to saiety and fake flavour”, 'cos ultra-processed simply isn’t more flavourful and satiating than other food - very few people will take the ultra-processed food over the alternative, so it’s not those things…
All bread is ultra-processed? So 6000 odd years of ultra-processed food, why weren’t there fat people in the past?
Personally I believe that a whole food diet is the way to go for good health, avoid ultra processed food, ideally eat local seasonal fruit and veg, don’t eat too much meat.
There are some ultra processed foods that are harder to avoid as they are nice: cheese, most pasta, bread, chocolate… its quite a long list
Based on my experience visiting Greece this summer, if you live there, it is far easier to eat whole food than it is in Switzerland, and in Switzerland it is easier than the UK. If you live in the US you are screwed
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Absolutely agree with this 
Proper food, in its original form to make most of your intake.
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I overheard two people in the gym changing room a couple of days ago talking about CICO and showing the other a calorie counting app.