Eating beef again!???

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For the last 4 or 5 years, I’ve tried to not eat beef (I mean cow, not all meat in general). I just heard from a bunch of sources that it’s not that good for you, that it’s very taxing on the body to digest, etc. So, for the past 4 years or so I’ve had beef maybe 4 or 5 times a year tops.

But recently I’ve been really hungry after my high volume workouts, and hamburgers are so cheap, and I’m a college student, so who can turn down a $1.00 cheese burger (varies by restaurant, sometimes a double, sometimes a “big and tasty,” etc.). I used to eat McChicken sandwhiches every day for lunch ($1.00 each), but I got tired of them after a semester.

Plus, they’re pretty high in calories which is what I’m after.

So recently (like the last week) I’ve been eating burgers. The other day I went to Wendy’s and had two double cheese burgers and a 5 piece chicken nuggets for lunch.

Anyway, after a few days of this, I’m totally craving beef. What the hell!!! Hamburgers rule. Seriously. Like right now I want to go to Wendy’s and get 3 or 4 double cheeseburgers.

So, is this bad? Can I have some conclusive studies on beef digestion and how it affects you? I know beef contains creatine, so maybe I was creatine deficient while I wasn’t eating beef.

Does beef impair qigong (since it’s supposedly so stressful on the body to digest compared with other meats)?

Yeah.

btw, here’s an example of my hunger. The other day after doing 10 sets of 5 reps of squats (real, ass to the ground squats) with about 1:15 between each set (except the first set, which got about 3-4 minutes of rest), and then some biceps work, I had a 600 calorie shake when I got home with 54g of protein. Then an hour or two later on the way to my friend’s house I had two double cheese burgers and 2 orders of Wendy’s chicken nuggets (all white meat yeah!). And then about 3 hours later I had this big ass chicken chimichanga (which is a burrito filled with chicken and cheese and beans and rice and stuff, and then they fry the whole thing! :smiley: It’s totally bad for you = lots of calories = I like them). And Spanish rice and a salad. That’s a lot of food for me cuz I only weigh 170, but I wish I could afford to eat like that all the time.

Answer my beef questions.

IronFist

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Craving? you might be pregnant. :smiley:

I love beef. Not only that, but I totally understand what you’re going through - I’ve been there. I cut out beef for a while and also went through the burger craze after breaking my beef celibacy. I had the same craving for french fries. Don’t sweat it - it’ll go away. I’m still eating burgers, but only on occasion. taco bell also has some cheap eats. And subway, if you get a 4 inch round

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Hah, Subway couldn’t fill me up if they tried!

That being said, I really like the horseradish dijon melt. Mmm… ham, turkey, cheese, bacon, and horseradish dijon sauce, and the vegetables of your choice…

IronFist

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Most restaurants can’t fill me up. I’m partial to the chicken teryaki with sweet onion sauce.

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IronFist-

Are you by chance blood type O? If so, tell the veggies, bad karmites, disrupted chiites and the rest to bugger off! You need red meat. Other blood types don’t need as much- their loss:p .

I’m gonna duck now,before all the hippies start throwing fecal material my way. If you are interested in knowing more about it, get a copy of Eat Right for Your Blood Type by Peter D’Adamo .

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SevenStar, I’ve not tried that one yet. My mom and sister really like it, though. I can’t pull myself away from the one with bacon on it long enough to try something new :slight_smile:

dnc101 said:
Are you by chance blood type O? If so, tell the veggies, bad karmites, disrupted chiites and the rest to bugger off! You need red meat. Other blood types don’t need as much- their loss .

I’ve heard of that book before. I’m not sure what my blood type is, actually. I’m sure of what my metabolism is, though, it’s fast!

I’ll check into what blood type I am.

IronFist

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dangit, now I want that chicken teryaki sub. Luckily, there’s a subway right up the street.

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Jeeezus Keeerrist! You people sure do eat a lot of shit! :eek:

You know, there’s not a lot of decent beef in those burgers and most of the chicken is reconstituted crap that’s mostly water. Not to mention all the preservatives and growth hormones and stuff.

Man, Ironfist, reading your post made me feel sick!

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In college, eating is more a function of how much money you have.

IronFist

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Originally posted by IronFist
[B]In college, eating is more a function of how much money you have.

IronFist [/B]

So go to the supermarket and buy some decent shiat instead of filling yourself up with McBollocks and the like. Find the money, dude. Fast food is cheap for a reason.

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Serp, have you been to the US? Even the food in the supermarket is of pretty average quality sometimes.

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I do. We have a Super Walmart here and I buy lots of frozen dinners because I don’t like to cook. I can get Hungry Man dinners for $2.50 (much cheaper than the grocery store) and that’s like 600-800 calories on average. The Hungry Man XXL’s are $3.50 or something and they’re usually around 1000 calories (so they say). There are also these smaller mexican dinners called El Charrito that are $.97 and they’re like 400 calories.

I also buy lots of frozen vegetables and stuff.

Of course, ramen, chili, stuff like that, too.

But the thing is, my goal is to maximize the calorie per dollar. All these “Lean Cuisine” dinners that are like $2.50 or $3.00 for 250 calories… no, that’s not good use of my money. I’d need like 4 of them.

I also buy a lot of pizza (800-1200 if you eat the whole thing) depending on what’s on sale. I’ve gotten Jack’s Cheese pizza for 5 for $10 once. That’s a 900 calorie pizza right there for $2.00!

I forget what else i buy, that that’s the majority of it.

Welcome to shopping with IronFist :slight_smile:

IronFist

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Originally posted by joedoe
Serp, have you been to the US? Even the food in the supermarket is of pretty average quality sometimes.

Yeah, I have. Point taken.

And so much sugar! Yikes!

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Originally posted by IronFist
[B]I do. We have a Super Walmart here and I buy lots of frozen dinners because I don’t like to cook. I can get Hungry Man dinners for $2.50 (much cheaper than the grocery store) and that’s like 600-800 calories on average. The Hungry Man XXL’s are $3.50 or something and they’re usually around 1000 calories (so they say). There are also these smaller mexican dinners called El Charrito that are $.97 and they’re like 400 calories.

I also buy lots of frozen vegetables and stuff.

Of course, ramen, chili, stuff like that, too.

But the thing is, my goal is to maximize the calorie per dollar. All these “Lean Cuisine” dinners that are like $2.50 or $3.00 for 250 calories… no, that’s not good use of my money. I’d need like 4 of them.

I also buy a lot of pizza (800-1200 if you eat the whole thing) depending on what’s on sale. I’ve gotten Jack’s Cheese pizza for 5 for $10 once. That’s a 900 calorie pizza right there for $2.00!

I forget what else i buy, that that’s the majority of it.

Welcome to shopping with IronFist :slight_smile:

IronFist [/B]

Oh my gawd! That’s not better! I’m talking about buying ingredients and cooking up dinners. You can make heaps and then have it as left overs the next day too, so you don’t have to cook every day. You can still get your calories without eating crap.

Dayum, shopping with Ironfist is funny!

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Ironfist

I hear ya re. the money situation in college. You know how I got around that? I worked a casual job in a fast food joint. Got cheap or free food most of the time and got paid while I was at it! And it kept me pretty fit.

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Whoa! That’s a lot of crap there!

Ok, I can empathize on the Jack’s Cheese pizza. As far as I can
tell, those are the healthiest frozen pizzas (no hydrogenated oils).
I usually doctor them up. I’ve some soy-based pepperoni
substitute that actually isn’t that bad (ha! take that meat
eaters!). In college, my senior year consisted of practically nothing
more than beans and rice. You can do a lot with beans and rice.
It’s cheap and it’s easy (and it can be tasty). Of course, I opted to
buy pop instead of vegetables, but nobody eats that healthily in
college.

I have a theory about the craving beef thing. I notice that when
your body needs fat and protein, it craves the kind you’ve been
eating lately. So when I’ve been eating a lot of nuts (cashews are
nummy), I crave nuts. When I’ve been tossing back the tofu
(because cashews has way more fat than I need), I start craving
tofu. I dunno. It’s just a theory.

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I think IF is just addicted to shit food!

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I reckon if he was addicted then he should sue whoever provides that food :smiley:

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Nah. Already proven not to work. He needs to sue on the basis that he’s addicted to stuff he didn’t know was in there.

Like shit.

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I hear you about the college thing.

One bad thing about beef is a high level of uric acid. If you boil it first for a few minutes with carrot slices, then remove the carrots, this treatment aleviates the above problem.

I find that some other cow parts are quite tasty as well, when prepared the way I like:

Tripes (stomach)
Feet
bones (like neck bones, soup bones) - especially with ligament

When I eat the above, it gives me a lot of energy and I feel it’s good for the joints, etc.