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! 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