Instead of tuna salad I make sardine salad. 1 can of sardines(in water), 1-2 tbs of real avocado mayo, a little mustard, and some diced onion and olives. Put it in a lettuce wrap. It’s a tasty little snack. You don’t even need to add salt or really any other seasoning
For restaurant salads, if you want to keep the calories down, use these old tricks. Dressing on the side and dip the tines of your fork. Also, if you have someone with a purse, you can ask them to consistently carry your favorite spice mix. I use crunchy rubs, and they sprinkle well on salads and you can even go dry salad without dressing (with some wet items like tomatoes, cucumbers, etc). Leave off the croutons or grab a couple and crumble them in the palms of your hand and it adds min carbs but crunch.
Thomas youre my favorite fitness and health guy on RUclips. Because you give great health and diet advice, your content is informative and well rounded. I appreciate the quality !
Yes I agree. Science is interesting, important but my brain went into overload no matter how much I tried to support Thomas. I do love him. This is a great video.
Super useful information. I was on keto for two and a half years and as a traveling consultant would often get the Starbucks egg whites in the morning, never even thought that would have high carb content.
The list is below However, His reasoning behind the list is the key message in this video and not necessarily the list itself. His justification is where the learning points are, given the different food types across the globe. Why is more important than what. Here is the list 1) Cashews - he is doing Macadamia & Pecans instead 2) Turkey Bacon - Regular bacon not too processed 3) Rice Cakes- Siete tortillas instead 4) Rotisserie chicken- Cold cuts like poultry breasts 5) Margarine- Butter or Ghee 6) Starbucks egg bites - 7) Restaurant salad - Steamed veggies 8) Farm raised Salmon - Sardines, Mackerel 9) Fast food cheese - Burger Patty
It's funny to think of what I considered "healthy diet" food when I was younger. Now when I see the ingredients in the same foods it feels like I'm eating somebody's science experiment.
Capitalism is awesome. Rich people sell poison because it's cheaper than food! Life doesn't matter, it's all about PROFIT+ for the rich = MERICAN FREEDUM* with the most humans in prison in the history of humanity ..such a great country *for the rich.
I stopped eating at resturants and fast food places for about 3 years now, and its the best decision I ever made. I'm 47...I got into fitness 5 years ago. I feel the best I ever felt in my life physically. I love cooking which I hated before. I just don't eat bacon at all. I make my own egg bites, donuts, I do still buy store brought pies. I do all my grocery shopping at sprouts. You can get a whole pie with just 300 calories (no sugar added) for the whole thing. Wild caught salmon I get a frozen pack for like 29 bucks at Sprouts, but I'm not that big on Seaford except for scallops which I buy quite often. I buy nothing but lean cuts of chicken and ground beef...sometimes I get ground turkey and chicken as well...only grass feed and pasture raised....99% lean or 93%. Bison meat is the best but it's quite expensive... otherwise I would switch to bison meat. I cut out processed foods but I pretty much eat the same foods. I just get cleaner food sources and ingredients, and incorporate more balanced meals. I weigh my food and count calories and macros so I don't over eat. I use an app to calculate my BMI and then you type in the product of the ingredients for your meals or you can scan the UPC code and the nutrition is quite accurate to the label. The pain in the ass part is naming all of the ingredients...including bread and condiments. I urge people to give up fast food places and most resturants...for one their dirty and two they buy nothing but processed ingredients cause the cost is cheaper.
I love cashews! On day 10 of raw fruits and veggies and have been having cashews everyday and I've already lost 12 pounds! Completely cleaned out my system. I'm not giving up on cashews. I don't eat any of the other things mentioned anyway. But cashews don't give me any issues.
It’s okay to eat salads in restaurants. I normally order a mixed greens salad, and sometimes with grilled chicken, and I usually ask for the dressing on the side. And, if the salad also came with cheese, I would ask to also place that on the side as well. This way, you can control how much to add in your salad, or decide to completely omit them.
Pretty obvious and has been discussed on this channel before but worth reiterating…I avoid deep fried foods (in restaurants) like the plague. Almost always causes noticeable inflammation in my body. I realize different people may have different tolerances but I believe most restaurant practices with regards to oil selection, usage, and maintenance / change out are extremely unhealthy. If you want deep fried foods occasionally do it at home 🙏🏽☺️
Eating anything heavily fried always made me flush, my skin is hella sensitive to what I eat. The worst thing fried I’ll ever eat is sometimes some French fries once in a long while. Thankfully I simply just never find restaurants worth going to anymore.
Margarine…lol…thats been off the list for like 20 years. Honestly, I don’t understand this rolling through fast food joints for a burger patty… I suppose it’s cheap, but I find it so much easier to dip into a grocery store or deli and get some fairly high quality, roast beef, sliced, which I would end up enjoying way more than I would a burger patty from a fast food joint … There’s even one store I go to that has good quality grass fed beef sticks other than that, thanks, love your vids!!!
I saw someone put out a stick of butter and a stick of margarine outside in the summer, close to each other. The flies ignored the margarine 100%, so if they won’t eat it, no one should! I didn’t understand why you’d substitute deli meat for the egg bites. I could understand if you said you’d make your own, or just have eggs and bacon. But just deli meat? No hate on deli meat. I love it! I love the regular egg bites. I’ve made my own, and they were pretty close. Starbucks got me hooked on adding gruyère cheese to some of my meals. It’s really good!
I like this format of your videos way better the fact that you talk about something that might not be the best option but then give supporting information, but most of all give recommendations for what a substitute could be. There’s such a lack of information on what we should turn to, rather than what we should stay away from living in fear of everything being bad, just creates confusion, and not that I myself want, or need to be told what to eat I feel like a lot of people benefit from having people’s input and that’s why they come to these videos for peoples opinions.
6:46 I used ghee everyday for over 2 years because I realized I had an intolerance to casein and was in the middle of switching my diet to keto, but eventually I had to switch back to butter because ghee is just so damn expensive... I now use grass-fed / pasture-raised butter, doesn't it give me the same short-chain fatty acids benefits than ghee? I thought they were a consequence of what the cows are eating and not the clarification process of ghee itself.
My mother bought Turkey Bacon for years. I finally convinced her it's a garbage processed meat byproduct. It's probably not bad for you, but like Thomas said, it's a "franken product" that's trying to trick you into thinking it's healthier than real pork bacon.
We eat chicken bacon because it's halal, and we don't have beef bacon available in our area. I used to live in Abu Dhabi and we found halal beef bacon there, so we enjoyed that for years.
When I was in culinary school many years ago, I don’t know how we got to the subject but one of my chefs talked about Turkey bacon and said that if you watched a video on how that make that bullshit I promise you that you’ll never eat that crap again. I still have not seen a video of said process and never have eaten that stuff since 😂 Seeing it on Thomas’s list is justifying. I’m not a real bacon person either so I never get that salty pork craving.
I can't really do regular bacon cause it's too salty and I swell up. Instead, I get a pork loin, and then slice it up as thin as I can. It's much better for me, and it's close enough to regular bacon in terms of taste and texture that I'm perfectly fine with replacing bacon with this instead. So, for those that can't do regular bacon, or want something to eat every day, definitely try this.
Great idea. In Canada that’s what we call peameal bacon (it’s real Canadian bacon- not those ham slices McDonalds tries to pass off as Canadian bacon).
'Mystery cheese....' lol in my house this would be the stuff from the farmers market that they cut and wrapped for me and added a price label. I realised a while back that cashews were not doing me any favours - sleepless itchy nights, stomach discomfort - same with almonds. .... i find walnuts are my 'go to' snack nut. Love this style of video - his fast talking brain-dumping videos made my head spin. Love the science, but also love a quick bite of info my brain can handle
Hehehe... I love you Thomas, but I'm one of THOSE people who orders a salad (usually when out to lunch), tells them to omit this and that... then will dump in a cut-up sweet potato I've smuggled in from my purse. For dinner out, I do request steamed veg ... but still often bring my sweet potato (my carb of choice... need that potassium & fiber... and not a nightshade).
thanks for these videos - never knew that about cashews and I was eating a handful a day for about a month literally and I got rashes on my hands and fingers - then I ran out of the nuts the rashes went away - also just discovered siete chips and they are my go to when I need an occasional snack! Love them
Strong work, Thomas. I appreciate this video, all of your videos. Thank you for breaking it all down. My husband said he had a doctor tell him “no cashews” before. Personally, since I must be under a rock, I had no idea and it explains why I itch when I eat them. I also have the same reaction to WALNUTS and I love those. Not sure why. Thanks for this.
Yeah I took a nutrition course in college and had to learn about my digestive system and document all the food I ate. It was a trip! I learned so much. I understand where you're coming from and apps like Yuka help out alot too at the store.
Tom, I'm a bit troubled over your aversion to wild caught salmon if it's only about price. Let me give you a couple options for obtaining this amazing health power food at a reasonable price: 1) Costco. I buy a bag of Kirklands wild caught Alaskan sockeye (about 8-9 servings per bag and 38 grams of protein per serving) at about $37 a bag. That's only about $4.50 per serving. 2) Wal Mart. I buy their canned (BumbleBee brand) sockeye salmon in either the small (5.75 oz) can or larger (~11 oz.) can. From that, I make salmon patties using whole eggs, scallops and spices. I make two patties from the small can, and four patties from the large can. Each serving provides 23 grams of protein, not including the protein from a whole egg. The small can costs about $5.75; the large can costs about $10.50. I make about two meals a week from these products as an adjunct to the sardines, oysters, trout, and shrimp I eat so often. I'm nearing 70 and take no drugs, no OTCs, and hike mountains like I did in my 30s-40s. And yes, I train with weights four times per week. I'm a retired fish biologist and delight in how you deliver the technical/nutrition info for those of us who wish to live optimal health till our last dying day(s) on earth.
Salmon is one of those things you're going to pay for. We used to go camping and when our kids were young, they could catch my limit without a license. We filled our freezer for the year and gave salmon away.
Agree on being better to eat lower trophic level fish (I do this a lot). But a slight correction on farmed salmon, they are using synthetic astaxanthin (same supplement we can buy for ourselves). I have no idea why the rega require it be calked dyed (when it isn’t dyed). It is astaxanthin in the diet. Same way they keep help flamingos in zoos by supplementing it on their diet. At 8 billion ppl and counting on the planet we can’t rely on wild stocks (we don’t harvest wild chicken, pork or beef anymore). But improvements can and user are made in the farming sector. (Finished a doctorate in Marine Finfish Aquaculture).
First of all, I wouldn’t even go near a Starbucks. Second, i only use a high quality EVOO and a lot of it. I even bring my own to a restaurant. Lastly, I don’t waste my money on bad things like gambling and etc. so yes I’m going to buy the absolute best quality wild salmon if that’s what I crave and want. My health comes before money.
Awesome video Tom as always! I was unaware about cashews, I eat a serving almost daily 😅 (could be why I'm retaining so much water and itchy) I also enjoy Walnuts with dates as a dessert. I think I'll switch out cashews for macadamia nuts or pecans 👍🏼
I love that you mentioned Portuguese sausage 😊 but I wonder what kind of sausage are you thinking about. We have a variety of them 😂 love your channel ❤
so far so good.. I don't really eat any of those except fast food cheese - when I'm doing OMAD keto sometimes an In N Out double double is an easy way to get "close enough" to what I'm after, and I've found that even eating it with the bun doesn't knock me out of ketosis overall for the day (side note, after some research and self experimentation due to discussions on bodybuilding forums I've tested eating up to 75g of carbs per day for a week straight and continued having quite measurable urine ketone levels).
Ditched cashews many years ago after they gave me a gut ache I will never forget. I had to walk three and a half miles with it on a hot summer's day. That makes you remember that stop on a bench to eat them and the foul grumbles I was getting within five minutes!
Gonna motivate me with the cashews 😅 I have a pretty restrictive eating disorder so it’s hard to hear about cutting things out but I also don’t want to be eating poisonous food! I have like 10 cashews a day with my nut mixes, gonna try and switch them out! Thanks Thomas!
I so completely agree with you on this. I've dropped most of the same foods (I still like cashews, I'm going to reconsider that), margarine is rectangular poison as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I've quit going to big box grocery stores altogether and look for great food in uncommon places: farmers market, Aldi's, health food stores, etc. I'm going to work on fatty liver problems so I can get this tire off my waist.
Mass-produced egg-bites, in general (Starbucks/grocery store made/meat & breakfast section), are loaded with chemicals and all kinds of other crap. So deceiving. Why do these companies have to mess up eggs, meat, and cheese like that? I remember being interested when Starbucks first introduced their egg-bites but once I read what was actually in them it was such a disappointment!
I found some great egg bite insta-pot recipes. So much better than Starbucks in flavor and ingredients. Plus you can make like 15 at a time and freeze or refrigerate them and then just microwave 1 or 2 for breakfast on the go.
Why, do the companies do this, you ask? Well, it's obviously because the company knows that people will buy and even eat that shite at inflated prices, and the company makes a nice profit. And profit is their only goal. That's why. Simple. What I don't understand is why so many people buy and eat the shite.
Thank you so much for mentioning the Starbucks egg bites! I was torn about these for a while because they taste great but something told me there’s just some more hidden things in them that aren’t good. High carbs are definitely one of them. Thanks for this & all of your videos.
I've been binge watching a lot of your videos. Great information. You mention in a few vids hyperglycemia, but what about us that are hypoglycemic? I feel hungry all-the-time. I try to have smaller meals and graze during the day, but it seems nothing keeps me satiated. As I turn 70 I am struggling with my weight and have been searching for a solution to this.
From what I have heard, the eating small meals and grazing is what is keeping you constantly hungry. If you did intermittent fasting and ate two good meals a day, the hunger would go away. Hard at first but you will be surprised how the hunger goes away.
how foods rich in healthy fats to keep you satiated. Drink lots of water and eat fiberous foods that take longer to breakdown. You also might want to cut out sugars as these can signal the body to request more and more :)
Thank you for sharing. I went Vegan five years ago. Unsalted cashews will be a challenge to give up. I'll be Sixty years old next year and Sardines are the best.
yeah, good list. Most astonishing for me is still the margarine story. ..we were a victim too... whole societies got brainwashed. care for your heart, don't eat butter, exchange for margarine. incredible. and all the producers everywhere just lied, they knew better. ...
I used to pick out the cashews when eating nuts as they “were” my favorite and completely stopped this habit especially after watching this video. Thanks for providing such great videos to help educate us on making better food choices!
My husband is 6'3" 190 lbs of pure muscle, and I am 5'3" 115 lbs with a toned but still feminine body. We are in our early 50's & I still have a regular 6 day period & excellent hormone health. *WE EAT TONS OF CHICKEN SKIN a couple times a week!!!* I mostly cook high fat beef for us, and plenty of eggs, small amounts of fruit & vegetables just for some color.....but at least twice a week I grill up a TON of skin-on chicken and have never once noticed the high calories and high fat having a negative impact. Before I ate my current carnivore "ish" diet, I had started losing my period in my mid 40's. My husband wasn't looking so great...he was too thin & looked hollow in the eyes. We were eating a low fat vegan diet and always struggled to keep our tummies flat. Once my own health got bad enough I made the 180 degree switch to carnivore and WOW the difference in just a week was sort of miraculous. Don't be scared of chicken skin. That's the best part.
I love chicken skin. After watching his video I was going to cut it out…but after your post I think I will still eat it. Maybe I need to cut out some veggies. I eat a lot at dinner.
My diet has also similarly changed over the years. But I think the next uncharted territory to focus on is PFAS, pesticides and other chemicals that are in our foods. 👍
Great video. Thank you. However, I disagree when you say that salmon is too expensive, so you recommend scallops instead. Scallops are even more expensive than salmon.
Good stuff Tom. I've either done or still do "sometimes" most of these. When I'm on travel I'll do egg bites and/or rotisserie I should know better. The ingredient list on egg bites is so long they have to put it in font size 4. We stopped doing margarine long ago and recently I've stopped doing farm raised salmon. Great reminders and education Tom
Thomas, thanks for all the education you are sharing! You helped me to learn lots of relevant information about my body. I have a question on rice cakes. Previously, you recommended it as a potential quick glucose product with post-workout protein intake (in the end of the fasting window). Do you still use it in such setup or you switched to other starches? Another question, if i have a prolonged fast (32-48 h) and do a resistance training in the end of the fast - should i break the fast with just protein or protein+glucose+fructose+salt protocol still applies? I am asking this as carbs are not recommended to be used as a initial food after prolonged fast.
@@ThomasDeLauerOfficialI’ve been carnivore for about 8 months. Such great results that I can’t see ever going away from it entirely. But neither can I see never veering from it on occasion. Your videos are why I choose macadamia nuts, to the exclusion of all other nuts/legumes, when “cheating”. I may now add pecans :) Thanks for your great content and genuine forthrightness.
Your narration here is kind of funny 😁 Thomas, ... I mean "humorous", in a good & wholesome way, as your transparency comes away as very natural candor, not that you are 'trying' to be amusing, but I just find it almost as 'edutainment' ... and in my turn, I say that in a "natural" honest sense, while I am not seeking to 'please' or impress anyone. In summary, I just say "Thank you" for keeping it 'real'. 👍
I liked this video! I’ve never had turkey bacon, I’ve never had a rice cake, I buy sliced roast beef from the local deli and just snack on that rolled up with sliced muenster cheese. I eat ground beef almost every day and I can never remember eating margarine. My parents never brought it in the house. 🎉
@@ThomasDeLauerOfficial And I've watched them all! Even if looking at the title I think.. hmm I might already know this I still check it for new tidbits. You're doing a great job at crowding that out for sure and it's much appreciated
This is why I trust your opinion more than my dietician's. She could never eat a whole rotisserie chicken and if she did she could never just admit to it like you did.
1. Cashews - Macadamia nuts
2. Turkey bacon - regular bacon
3. Rice cakes - Almond flour tortillas
4. Rotisserie chicken - Cold cuts
Butcher Box commercial
5. Margarine - Butter, Ghee
6. Starbucks egg bites - deli meat
7. Restaurant salad - streamed veggies
8. Farm raised salmon - sardines, scallops
9. Fast food cheese - Deal with it
You're welcome
Exactly my MEN 👍🏼
It’s “ghee.”
I wouldn’t eat deli meat, either. It’s processed food and it’s high in sodium. Just buy skinless chicken breast and grill it.
@@alan30189 It's also good steamed or, if one wants to go for deli meat slices, brine it, poach it, slice it.
@@alan30189 buy a meat press and make your oqn
I have to say I agree with him 100% this time. LOL
I might just not eat ever again. This sounds much safer 😂
Just smoke cigarettes like i do. They are way safer than most supermarket and fast 'food' items.
Instead of tuna salad I make sardine salad. 1 can of sardines(in water), 1-2 tbs of real avocado mayo, a little mustard, and some diced onion and olives. Put it in a lettuce wrap. It’s a tasty little snack. You don’t even need to add salt or really any other seasoning
I stopped eating 3 years ago. Now I'm in the air floating around
Lol
it’s not safe either 😂
For restaurant salads, if you want to keep the calories down, use these old tricks. Dressing on the side and dip the tines of your fork. Also, if you have someone with a purse, you can ask them to consistently carry your favorite spice mix. I use crunchy rubs, and they sprinkle well on salads and you can even go dry salad without dressing (with some wet items like tomatoes, cucumbers, etc). Leave off the croutons or grab a couple and crumble them in the palms of your hand and it adds min carbs but crunch.
Yeah I always ask for dressing on the side.
I just get the olive oil and balsamic
Thomas youre my favorite fitness and health guy on RUclips. Because you give great health and diet advice, your content is informative and well rounded. I appreciate the quality !
Informative, directly to the point, and not full of technical jargon. Thomas you're really hitting your stride with this type of video. Well done.
Yes I agree.
Science is interesting, important but my brain went into overload no matter how much I tried to support Thomas.
I do love him.
This is a great video.
Super useful information. I was on keto for two and a half years and as a traveling consultant would often get the Starbucks egg whites in the morning, never even thought that would have high carb content.
Did you mean you say egg 'bites'? There's very little carbs in eggs and yes they should be eaten with the yolk.
The list is below
However, His reasoning behind the list is the key message in this video and not necessarily the list itself.
His justification is where the learning points are, given the different food types across the globe. Why is more important than what.
Here is the list
1) Cashews - he is doing Macadamia & Pecans instead
2) Turkey Bacon - Regular bacon not too processed
3) Rice Cakes- Siete tortillas instead
4) Rotisserie chicken- Cold cuts like poultry breasts
5) Margarine- Butter or Ghee
6) Starbucks egg bites -
7) Restaurant salad - Steamed veggies
8) Farm raised Salmon - Sardines, Mackerel
9) Fast food cheese - Burger Patty
It's funny to think of what I considered "healthy diet" food when I was younger. Now when I see the ingredients in the same foods it feels like I'm eating somebody's science experiment.
Capitalism is awesome. Rich people sell poison because it's cheaper than food! Life doesn't matter, it's all about PROFIT+ for the rich = MERICAN FREEDUM* with the most humans in prison in the history of humanity ..such a great country *for the rich.
well said
Butcher box has no discount code for mentioning your name in anyway I’ve tried it three times in the last 24 hours
I used to eat pop tarts for breakfast as a kid with no idea what nutrition was
@@johnfuzz704 ĺ
one food that can destroy a life is wedding cake
It was so useful and i agree with you in most of these 9 food, especially at margarine 👍🏽🙏🌹
I stopped eating at resturants and fast food places for about 3 years now, and its the best decision I ever made. I'm 47...I got into fitness 5 years ago. I feel the best I ever felt in my life physically. I love cooking which I hated before. I just don't eat bacon at all. I make my own egg bites, donuts, I do still buy store brought pies. I do all my grocery shopping at sprouts. You can get a whole pie with just 300 calories (no sugar added) for the whole thing. Wild caught salmon I get a frozen pack for like 29 bucks at Sprouts, but I'm not that big on Seaford except for scallops which I buy quite often. I buy nothing but lean cuts of chicken and ground beef...sometimes I get ground turkey and chicken as well...only grass feed and pasture raised....99% lean or 93%. Bison meat is the best but it's quite expensive... otherwise I would switch to bison meat. I cut out processed foods but I pretty much eat the same foods. I just get cleaner food sources and ingredients, and incorporate more balanced meals. I weigh my food and count calories and macros so I don't over eat. I use an app to calculate my BMI and then you type in the product of the ingredients for your meals or you can scan the UPC code and the nutrition is quite accurate to the label. The pain in the ass part is naming all of the ingredients...including bread and condiments. I urge people to give up fast food places and most resturants...for one their dirty and two they buy nothing but processed ingredients cause the cost is cheaper.
Good for you! Keep it that way.
Genuinely curious, why is bison the best?
@@mikaelafox6106 it's leaner with much less fat than regular cow meat.
I love cashews! On day 10 of raw fruits and veggies and have been having cashews everyday and I've already lost 12 pounds! Completely cleaned out my system. I'm not giving up on cashews. I don't eat any of the other things mentioned anyway. But cashews don't give me any issues.
Read about the cashew industry, you might reconsider
Almonds are yummy too 😋
Agreed. I too eat a lot of them and the6 are great, fiber wise. I don’t get itchy, gain water weight, stuffy nose.
Great info. It feels good to have already implemented these changes before watching the video. Shows my fooducation is improving.
It’s okay to eat salads in restaurants. I normally order a mixed greens salad, and sometimes with grilled chicken, and I usually ask for the dressing on the side. And, if the salad also came with cheese, I would ask to also place that on the side as well. This way, you can control how much to add in your salad, or decide to completely omit them.
Pretty obvious and has been discussed on this channel before but worth reiterating…I avoid deep fried foods (in restaurants) like the plague. Almost always causes noticeable inflammation in my body. I realize different people may have different tolerances but I believe most restaurant practices with regards to oil selection, usage, and maintenance / change out are extremely unhealthy. If you want deep fried foods occasionally do it at home 🙏🏽☺️
Yes the deep fried in restaurants use highly inflammatory oil ,palm or Canola. Fry at home with Avacado oil.
Facts - the last deep fried thing I had was a handful of French fries months ago
@@lbplease Yep. Avocado or animal fat.
Luckily I can't afford restaurants.
Eating anything heavily fried always made me flush, my skin is hella sensitive to what I eat. The worst thing fried I’ll ever eat is sometimes some French fries once in a long while. Thankfully I simply just never find restaurants worth going to anymore.
Margarine…lol…thats been off the list for like 20 years.
Honestly, I don’t understand this rolling through fast food joints for a burger patty… I suppose it’s cheap, but I find it so much easier to dip into a grocery store or deli and get some fairly high quality, roast beef, sliced, which I would end up enjoying way more than I would a burger patty from a fast food joint … There’s even one store I go to that has good quality grass fed beef sticks
other than that, thanks, love your vids!!!
I saw someone put out a stick of butter and a stick of margarine outside in the summer, close to each other. The flies ignored the margarine 100%, so if they won’t eat it, no one should!
I didn’t understand why you’d substitute deli meat for the egg bites. I could understand if you said you’d make your own, or just have eggs and bacon. But just deli meat? No hate on deli meat. I love it! I love the regular egg bites. I’ve made my own, and they were pretty close. Starbucks got me hooked on adding gruyère cheese to some of my meals. It’s really good!
Yep would you not sub the eggbite for another egg snack? Strange video this is to be honest
I like this format of your videos way better the fact that you talk about something that might not be the best option but then give supporting information, but most of all give recommendations for what a substitute could be. There’s such a lack of information on what we should turn to, rather than what we should stay away from living in fear of everything being bad, just creates confusion, and not that I myself want, or need to be told what to eat I feel like a lot of people benefit from having people’s input and that’s why they come to these videos for peoples opinions.
6:46 I used ghee everyday for over 2 years because I realized I had an intolerance to casein and was in the middle of switching my diet to keto, but eventually I had to switch back to butter because ghee is just so damn expensive... I now use grass-fed / pasture-raised butter, doesn't it give me the same short-chain fatty acids benefits than ghee? I thought they were a consequence of what the cows are eating and not the clarification process of ghee itself.
ghee is super easy to make on your own and reasonably priced, look up yt videos
Costco has ghee for a great price.
Loved this video! It was so interesting and very helpful to also hear what you eat instead.
My mother bought Turkey Bacon for years. I finally convinced her it's a garbage processed meat byproduct. It's probably not bad for you, but like Thomas said, it's a "franken product" that's trying to trick you into thinking it's healthier than real pork bacon.
We eat chicken bacon because it's halal, and we don't have beef bacon available in our area. I used to live in Abu Dhabi and we found halal beef bacon there, so we enjoyed that for years.
When I was in culinary school many years ago, I don’t know how we got to the subject but one of my chefs talked about Turkey bacon and said that if you watched a video on how that make that bullshit I promise you that you’ll never eat that crap again. I still have not seen a video of said process and never have eaten that stuff since 😂 Seeing it on Thomas’s list is justifying. I’m not a real bacon person either so I never get that salty pork craving.
AppleGate has a organic turkey bacon😉 now I’m wondering is it also bad news 🤔
@@Anewleaf1975it's not "bad" per SE but not 100% real . For most it's honestly just a low fat low calorie substitute
Because it is better than real bacon, buy a good quality turkey bacon and your argument is thrown out
I can't really do regular bacon cause it's too salty and I swell up. Instead, I get a pork loin, and then slice it up as thin as I can. It's much better for me, and it's close enough to regular bacon in terms of taste and texture that I'm perfectly fine with replacing bacon with this instead. So, for those that can't do regular bacon, or want something to eat every day, definitely try this.
Great idea! Here in Denmark, sometimes pork loin goes on sale for less than practically any other meat. I'll give tat a try.
Great idea. In Canada that’s what we call peameal bacon (it’s real Canadian bacon- not those ham slices McDonalds tries to pass off as Canadian bacon).
Great to see a video like this without fluff, good rationale, and not being pushy. Factual but still open to other things.
Rotisserie chicken is processed with dextrose, HFCS, or sugar.
Especially from Costco.
The pizza and ice cream diet is awesome.
'Mystery cheese....' lol in my house this would be the stuff from the farmers market that they cut and wrapped for me and added a price label. I realised a while back that cashews were not doing me any favours - sleepless itchy nights, stomach discomfort - same with almonds. .... i find walnuts are my 'go to' snack nut. Love this style of video - his fast talking brain-dumping videos made my head spin. Love the science, but also love a quick bite of info my brain can handle
Hehehe... I love you Thomas, but I'm one of THOSE people who orders a salad (usually when out to lunch), tells them to omit this and that... then will dump in a cut-up sweet potato I've smuggled in from my purse. For dinner out, I do request steamed veg ... but still often bring my sweet potato (my carb of choice... need that potassium & fiber... and not a nightshade).
thanks for these videos - never knew that about cashews and I was eating a handful a day for about a month literally and I got rashes on my hands and fingers - then I ran out of the nuts the rashes went away - also just discovered siete chips and they are my go to when I need an occasional snack! Love them
Thanks Thomas! I learned a lot from this video.
Hey Thomas!! Very information, full of nutritional technical jargon. This content and types of video are brilliant and very nuanced
He switched from whole chickens to processed deli meats laced with preservatives ?
and sulphites
Strong work, Thomas. I appreciate this video, all of your videos. Thank you for breaking it all down. My husband said he had a doctor tell him “no cashews” before. Personally, since I must be under a rock, I had no idea and it explains why I itch when I eat them. I also have the same reaction to WALNUTS and I love those. Not sure why. Thanks for this.
cashews=lupus
@@AlejandroRamirez-ly3fj what? Tell me more.
@@AlejandroRamirez-ly3fj ….and I have lupus. WoW!
Yeah I took a nutrition course in college and had to learn about my digestive system and document all the food I ate. It was a trip! I learned so much. I understand where you're coming from and apps like Yuka help out alot too at the store.
Fascinating didn’t know about cashews
I would like to see Thomas throw food at someone, it would probably be the most polite food fight ever 😅
Yeah 😂
1:27 "rename nameless " caught ya! Good job playing it off though 👏
I hope you make this a series! 😊
Tom, I'm a bit troubled over your aversion to wild caught salmon if it's only about price. Let me give you a couple options for obtaining this amazing health power food at a reasonable price: 1) Costco. I buy a bag of Kirklands wild caught Alaskan sockeye (about 8-9 servings per bag and 38 grams of protein per serving) at about $37 a bag. That's only about $4.50 per serving. 2) Wal Mart. I buy their canned (BumbleBee brand) sockeye salmon in either the small (5.75 oz) can or larger (~11 oz.) can. From that, I make salmon patties using whole eggs, scallops and spices. I make two patties from the small can, and four patties from the large can. Each serving provides 23 grams of protein, not including the protein from a whole egg. The small can costs about $5.75; the large can costs about $10.50. I make about two meals a week from these products as an adjunct to the sardines, oysters, trout, and shrimp I eat so often. I'm nearing 70 and take no drugs, no OTCs, and hike mountains like I did in my 30s-40s. And yes, I train with weights four times per week. I'm a retired fish biologist and delight in how you deliver the technical/nutrition info for those of us who wish to live optimal health till our last dying day(s) on earth.
You make me feel SO good - I quit all these foods over the years myself! I was so fooled by Starbucks egg bites for so long...
99% any food from a restaurant or fast food place isn't very healthy . Those Egg Bites are brought to Starbucks frozen . All of it is . ✌️
I realized that at eateries we don't know how things are made and what's really in them, so I really slowed down on getting take out.
You have an incredible delivery in your videos Thomas. Your channel is enjoying to watch
Salmon is one of those things you're going to pay for. We used to go camping and when our kids were young, they could catch my limit without a license. We filled our freezer for the year and gave salmon away.
That’s a crime sir. You have been reported. 🚨
Thank you! Excellent information, as usual!
What about the sugar in cold cuts?
Thanks Matt! For always keeping your mind open
Cold cuts are not cheaper than the 4.99 rotisserie we get from costco
Agree on being better to eat lower trophic level fish (I do this a lot). But a slight correction on farmed salmon, they are using synthetic astaxanthin (same supplement we can buy for ourselves). I have no idea why the rega require it be calked dyed (when it isn’t dyed). It is astaxanthin in the diet. Same way they keep help flamingos in zoos by supplementing it on their diet.
At 8 billion ppl and counting on the planet we can’t rely on wild stocks (we don’t harvest wild chicken, pork or beef anymore). But improvements can and user are made in the farming sector. (Finished a doctorate in Marine Finfish Aquaculture).
A video where you break down what you eat at fast food places and restaurants would be real helpful for me.
That would be great! I would love that too!
Gotta admit that fast food joints have at least nutritional data. I wish all restaurants had to post that.
First of all, I wouldn’t even go near a Starbucks. Second, i only use a high quality EVOO and a lot of it. I even bring my own to a restaurant. Lastly, I don’t waste my money on bad things like gambling and etc. so yes I’m going to buy the absolute best quality wild salmon if that’s what I crave and want. My health comes before money.
Same here
Awesome video Tom as always! I was unaware about cashews, I eat a serving almost daily 😅 (could be why I'm retaining so much water and itchy) I also enjoy Walnuts with dates as a dessert. I think I'll switch out cashews for macadamia nuts or pecans 👍🏼
Keep in mind the 3rd world workers don't get the proper equipment and get toxic doses. The whole industry is a complete disgrace
I have all these nuts daily! Just you try stopping me from eating them 👊🏻😂
Loving your new videos, straight and to the point!
I love that you mentioned Portuguese sausage 😊 but I wonder what kind of sausage are you thinking about. We have a variety of them 😂 love your channel ❤
Yep, I noticed that too but I guess it’s a specific sausage in Hawaii and they call it “ Portuguese sausage”. Portuguese here😅
É a chouriça penso.
@@333Hedgehogs Its usually just SPAM. Loco moco plate lumch is dah bomb
Ahhh! Portugese cuisine! My holiday to the Algarve coast got me thinking about retiring there. I fell in love,!
Thomas, I just recently started watching your channel. Thank you for the content.
I worked at In-N-Out as a teenager. Menu has not changed and YES they DO use REAL cheese.
Love In & Out!!
so far so good.. I don't really eat any of those except fast food cheese - when I'm doing OMAD keto sometimes an In N Out double double is an easy way to get "close enough" to what I'm after, and I've found that even eating it with the bun doesn't knock me out of ketosis overall for the day (side note, after some research and self experimentation due to discussions on bodybuilding forums I've tested eating up to 75g of carbs per day for a week straight and continued having quite measurable urine ketone levels).
Ditched cashews many years ago after they gave me a gut ache I will never forget. I had to walk three and a half miles with it on a hot summer's day. That makes you remember that stop on a bench to eat them and the foul grumbles I was getting within five minutes!
It warmed my heart so much to hear your life story.❤️
Gonna motivate me with the cashews 😅 I have a pretty restrictive eating disorder so it’s hard to hear about cutting things out but I also don’t want to be eating poisonous food! I have like 10 cashews a day with my nut mixes, gonna try and switch them out! Thanks Thomas!
its not poisonous
It's conflicting evidence on the Cashews. That's one of my favs. I will do more research.
At the very least sprouted / soaked and dehydrated cashews will reduce some of the anti-nutrients he referenced.
@@lbplease It's not conflicting regarding the very high omega 6 content in cashews!
10 cashews isn't doing anything to you .. 😂
Better watch it, Thomas! Just started Keto. Coming for you. 😂😂😂
Thank you for the facts Thomas 🙏
I so completely agree with you on this. I've dropped most of the same foods (I still like cashews, I'm going to reconsider that), margarine is rectangular poison as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I've quit going to big box grocery stores altogether and look for great food in uncommon places: farmers market, Aldi's, health food stores, etc. I'm going to work on fatty liver problems so I can get this tire off my waist.
Dr Berg has some good videos on fixing fatty liver thanks to him my liver is back to normal
@@toosweet6046 Thank you, I will check this out. :)
Mass-produced egg-bites, in general (Starbucks/grocery store made/meat & breakfast section), are loaded with chemicals and all kinds of other crap. So deceiving. Why do these companies have to mess up eggs, meat, and cheese like that? I remember being interested when Starbucks first introduced their egg-bites but once I read what was actually in them it was such a disappointment!
I found some great egg bite insta-pot recipes. So much better than Starbucks in flavor and ingredients. Plus you can make like 15 at a time and freeze or refrigerate them and then just microwave 1 or 2 for breakfast on the go.
Why, do the companies do this, you ask?
Well, it's obviously because the company knows that people will buy and even eat that shite at inflated prices, and the company makes a nice profit. And profit is their only goal. That's why. Simple.
What I don't understand is why so many people buy and eat the shite.
Thank you so much for mentioning the Starbucks egg bites! I was torn about these for a while because they taste great but something told me there’s just some more hidden things in them that aren’t good. High carbs are definitely one of them. Thanks for this & all of your videos.
Oysters are low cost?
I love this channel. Never giving up Salmon though.
restaurant salads are probably the most common way to get food poisoning
Been there
???
Very helpful! Thank you, Thomas! Big takeaways, I am no longer eating cashews, egg bites, and cheese on my fast food patties. Thanks again!
I've been binge watching a lot of your videos. Great information. You mention in a few vids hyperglycemia, but what about us that are hypoglycemic? I feel hungry all-the-time. I try to have smaller meals and graze during the day, but it seems nothing keeps me satiated. As I turn 70 I am struggling with my weight and have been searching for a solution to this.
From what I have heard, the eating small meals and grazing is what is keeping you constantly hungry. If you did intermittent fasting and ate two good meals a day, the hunger would go away. Hard at first but you will be surprised how the hunger goes away.
@@kerinac1909 Interesting. I assumed that fasting would be wrong for hypoglycemia. I'll look into it further. Thanks
how foods rich in healthy fats to keep you satiated. Drink lots of water and eat fiberous foods that take longer to breakdown. You also might want to cut out sugars as these can signal the body to request more and more :)
Thank you for sharing.
I went Vegan five years ago. Unsalted cashews will be a challenge to give up.
I'll be Sixty years old next year and Sardines are the best.
yeah, good list. Most astonishing for me is still the margarine story. ..we were a victim too... whole societies got brainwashed. care for your heart, don't eat butter, exchange for margarine. incredible. and all the producers everywhere just lied, they knew better. ...
Definitely!
they called it in the original die hard movie in 1988, look the scene where john and the black cop guy discuss twinkies or something like that.
I used to pick out the cashews when eating nuts as they “were” my favorite and completely stopped this habit especially after watching this video.
Thanks for providing such great videos to help educate us on making better food choices!
I *distinctly* remember the margarine craze of the early 90's. Even back then as a kid it made absolutely no health sense to me.
My husband is 6'3" 190 lbs of pure muscle, and I am 5'3" 115 lbs with a toned but still feminine body. We are in our early 50's & I still have a regular 6 day period & excellent hormone health. *WE EAT TONS OF CHICKEN SKIN a couple times a week!!!* I mostly cook high fat beef for us, and plenty of eggs, small amounts of fruit & vegetables just for some color.....but at least twice a week I grill up a TON of skin-on chicken and have never once noticed the high calories and high fat having a negative impact.
Before I ate my current carnivore "ish" diet, I had started losing my period in my mid 40's. My husband wasn't looking so great...he was too thin & looked hollow in the eyes. We were eating a low fat vegan diet and always struggled to keep our tummies flat. Once my own health got bad enough I made the 180 degree switch to carnivore and WOW the difference in just a week was sort of miraculous.
Don't be scared of chicken skin. That's the best part.
I love chicken skin. After watching his video I was going to cut it out…but after your post I think I will still eat it. Maybe I need to cut out some veggies. I eat a lot at dinner.
My diet has also similarly changed over the years. But I think the next uncharted territory to focus on is PFAS, pesticides and other chemicals that are in our foods. 👍
9:17 - Even Wild Atlantic Salmon is not worth the bang in the buck! Good Point!
Great video. Thank you. However, I disagree when you say that salmon is too expensive, so you recommend scallops instead. Scallops are even more expensive than salmon.
100% Loved this!
Love your videos! You’re so informative and make me laugh at the same time! I really appreciate all your time you put in! So what cheese will you eat?
I agree with every word.
Good stuff Tom. I've either done or still do "sometimes" most of these. When I'm on travel I'll do egg bites and/or rotisserie I should know better. The ingredient list on egg bites is so long they have to put it in font size 4. We stopped doing margarine long ago and recently I've stopped doing farm raised salmon. Great reminders and education Tom
Thanks for not saying “pee can” instead of pecan. 💜💛
Then you says it right. 😉
What about Norwegian farm raised salmon? I heard that was the best and pretty clean.
Really watch documentary on RUclips about Norwegian salmon farms and it will probably change your mind 🤔
Wow. Definitely dropping the cashews.👍
Thomas, thanks for all the education you are sharing! You helped me to learn lots of relevant information about my body. I have a question on rice cakes. Previously, you recommended it as a potential quick glucose product with post-workout protein intake (in the end of the fasting window). Do you still use it in such setup or you switched to other starches?
Another question, if i have a prolonged fast (32-48 h) and do a resistance training in the end of the fast - should i break the fast with just protein or protein+glucose+fructose+salt protocol still applies? I am asking this as carbs are not recommended to be used as a initial food after prolonged fast.
Your right about nuts. I get itchy from all nuts
Look at the effects of celery juice or powder in uncured meats vs nitrates in cured meats please. I would love a video on that.
Interesting and helpful video. I say that as a carnivore eater.
We need more carnivore peeps like you. Open minded and polite ❤️
@@ThomasDeLauerOfficialI’ve been carnivore for about 8 months. Such great results that I can’t see ever going away from it entirely. But neither can I see never veering from it on occasion. Your videos are why I choose macadamia nuts, to the exclusion of all other nuts/legumes, when “cheating”. I may now add pecans :) Thanks for your great content and genuine forthrightness.
Your narration here is kind of funny 😁 Thomas, ... I mean "humorous", in a good & wholesome way, as your transparency comes away as very natural candor, not that you are 'trying' to be amusing, but I just find it almost as 'edutainment' ... and in my turn, I say that in a "natural" honest sense, while I am not seeking to 'please' or impress anyone. In summary, I just say "Thank you" for keeping it 'real'. 👍
Wow, I was always bummed out about being allergic to cashews but now I feel so much better about it…thanks
This video was awesome. Wish I could give it 2 thumbs up 👍🏽 👍🏽
But...coldcuts have nitrates and other stuff.
Great idea on getting cold cuts instead of rotisserie chicken. You can just eat them from the package.
I liked this video! I’ve never had turkey bacon, I’ve never had a rice cake, I buy sliced roast beef from the local deli and just snack on that rolled up with sliced muenster cheese. I eat ground beef almost every day and I can never remember eating margarine. My parents never brought it in the house. 🎉
so appreciate this. need to shake up my routine
Bro how many videos is that today haha like 3 or 4. Thomas is in hyperdrive.
Hahahah doing about 2 per day lately. Gotta crowd out the nonsense on RUclips. I’ll outwork anyone lol. #GogginsStyle
@@ThomasDeLauerOfficial And I've watched them all! Even if looking at the title I think.. hmm I might already know this I still check it for new tidbits.
You're doing a great job at crowding that out for sure and it's much appreciated
I use Lime or Lemon juice and salt on my salads and skip the dressing.
The only things on this last remotely difficult for me to stop
are the cashews, rotisserie chicken, and salmon. Everything else is super easy.
Rotisserie chicken for me. I break it down and put it in other meals it just made prepping faster for me.
I've gotten away from deli cuts, but I will take a look a them again
This is why I trust your opinion more than my dietician's. She could never eat a whole rotisserie chicken and if she did she could never just admit to it like you did.
👍🏼 great comment
In the past I could have easily downed whole rotisserie chicken!
I LOVE Portuguese sausage!!! ahhhhh that Hawaii life 🤙🤙
Gundry has been anti-Cashew since Plant Paradox - Guess he was right