New Video: Full Day of Eating

On a day when my wife was at work and my two boys were home from school, I decided to make a video with all the food I ate during the day for a total of 2500 calories, as I ease into maintenance mode after my successful winter bulk.

The video is below and available on my YouTube channel.

It was a pretty fun time, and I’d be happy to make more videos like it in the future if people like them. It highlighted some staple foods I tend to eat, including chicken, eggs, oatmeal with protein, vegetables, etc. Plus, I was able to work in a few treats like almond butter sandwiches and Halo Top.

During the process, I made it fun for my boys too, by letting them pick out sundae stuff and make ice cream sundaes with the stuff we bought. It was a great day, glad I was able to capture it and put it onto the internet where it will exist forever and ever.

Full Day of Eating Script

Below are the bullets I wrote out to use as my loose script for the video. It’s called prep, people!

• Welcome to my first ever full day of eating video. I’ll go through and show what I eat today and what some of the staples of my diet are.
• A lot of people stop there at a full day, but I’m going to go the extra mile and give you another half day on top of that towards the end of the video, we’ll also prep some food for tomorrow’s breakfast and lunch, so that’s a little bonus.
• Monday
  • I chose today, because it’s a holiday, which makes it a good opportunity to do a full day of eating without having to do it at work or travelling.
  • But also because my wife (a CPA) will be at work, so we’ve got free reign of the house to make a video.
  • Usually on weekends or holidays, I tend to do less planning the day before, and am more flexible. I still keep track, but i eat whatever and then in the last few meals of the day I dial it in to hit the macros and calories by the end of the day.
  • But because of the video, I did a little planning beforehand and have mapped out around 2,600 calories for today.
  • First meal in the morning on a weekend depends on when I plan to train. These days I like to eat before I train. In the past, I have done fasted cardio and even fasted weight training, but not anymore.
  • I like to go lighter in fat and higher in carbs on the first meal, to make sure I have energy to train.
  • So this first meal is going to be quick oats and a scoop of whey protein.
• Macros for a day at the moment are around 210 g of protein, 65 g of fat and 269 g of carbs for a total of around 2500 calories.
• Just finished up my bulk where I went from 174 up to 190 pounds, so this is the early stage of trying to re-establish my maintenance calories somewhere in the 2500-2700 range.
• That was meal one, I’m off to do a bit of cardio, and lift some weights, I’ll be back after for my next meal.
• Lunch
  • Ok, so I got my lift in and my kids got some weight lifting in too
  • Now for some lunch
  • I’m going to make two almond butter sandwiches.
  • For the sandwich bread, I’m using these one buns from ozery, which have 100cals per roll. Add to that a serving of almond butter and some bananas.
  • Sandwiches with nut butter are highly calorie dense, but I enjoy them so much, I don’t mind using up this many calories for them.
  • Fage’s are a staple for me, they taste great and are a great source of protein.
• So that’s meal two, see you back here in a few hours for meal three.
  • Meal three is going to be some eggs and cheese
• Meal four
  • Chicken and broccoli, topped with hot sauce
  • Rice
• So that totals a bit more than 2500 calories, hit my protein target.
  • Very filling food, not much junk, some vegetables, plenty of lean protein from chicken and eggs.
• While I’m snacking away at this last meal, let’s start prepping for tomorrow’s meals.
  • Most weekdays, I like to start with some overnight oats, which I’ll show you how to make now.
  • A cup of rolled oats, around 3/4th of a cup of water and a scoop of protein
  • Stir it up with a chopstick, stick it into the Friday and there you go, perfect pre-workout meal.
  • Now onto my lunch prep. I’m boiling some eggs, probably 3 of which will go into lunch tomorrow
  • Then I’ll prep a container of chicken and broccoli for work
  • Make two sandwiches like the one I had today and throw in a fage and we are more than halfway to calories for tomorrow.
  • I’m taking off tomorrow afternoon for a business trip to Miami, so I’ll figure out the rest of my food tomorrow, probably will be some epic meat bars and quest bars and such.

That’s it, hope you enjoyed it, I’ll try this again some other time while travelling for work or something.