Half a year!

So i've been gymming about half a year so far. Then end of my first year at uni is very close and so far all I seemed to have learnt came from university of bodybuilding.com :-\ My first lads holiday was only a few months away in August so I got on my own case hard!

While everyone left my town to go get fattened up by their parents, I already lived with mine. So i'd cook almost all of my own meals. Thanks to student loans I didn't really need a job during the summer which made it easy for me to settle into my old routine; upper body, upper body and more upper body!

I would wake up, have breakfast, get to the gym, have lunch. LUNCH brings me to my next subject.

Food for beginners!

You can probably go online and search almost anywhere which will give you a whole different range of diets and nutritional information and although I now can do the same, back to basics I feel is what starters need as I once did. What I did helped develop me in such a way that people couldn't believe how quick it was all working.

Three words, which seems to be a thing at the moment; Tuna, Pasta and chicken. If you've ever thought black people like chicken, you haven't seen a body builder bulking. But i'm not too sure whether it's a 'like' as much as it is a necessity.

I would eat piles of tuna and pasta, and after a stint in Rome playing American Football (which doesn't come for another year yet!) I had perfected a delightful recipe. Can't really put up measurements really but it's kind of trial and error more than anything, and what's perfect to me might be a disaster for you (not that anyone has complained yet).

I would start off by boiling some pasta, whatever type you prefer is the best as its perfect for you. But spirals and shells are probably the best choice as they seem to cling onto the most tuna so you don't end up having to just scrape it off the bottom of your bowl at the end, by which point you may be too full to even eat it and it is the most important part of the meal really.

Heat some olive oil in a pan and put one or two cloves or very finely chopped garlic in until slightly browned. If you like spicy food as much as I do, you need to get hold of some pepperoncino, which is dried hot chilli peppers usually very small. You can take the stems off and simply rub the pepper between your fingers rub until its all powdered in. I would only use 2-3 myself as they are quite potent.

Grab some passata sauce preferably with mixed herbs, it just tastes nicer, and mix it in with the oil, chilli and garlic. Let the spices infuse for a couple minutes. Grab a can of tuna and mix it into your sauce using a fork so that you can flake it up instead of just some massive chunks in your pot as trying to break up the clumps that way can result in ruining your non stick pots, or so that's what mum used to moan at me for doing all the time.

Draining your cooked pasta, simply serve in a bowl with the tuna and sauce on top, just like bolognese. If it still isn't spicy enough for your tastebuds, add some tobasco sauce to the pot just before the tuna.

This, for me, was the meal of champions. Since my days of being 70kgs I go up and down as and when I like between 80-90 although usually levelling out at about the midway point. The amount of food that I would eat was my regular portion until I felt full...and then I would force myself to eat some more. I wasn't exaggerating when you look at this on your plate it will look like a mini plate mountain and it may even get cold by the time you've mustered up the courage to eat it, but if you're in the right frame of mind like I was and are looking to put on those pound then this is the way to go.

I won't leave it so late next time, it's the month of fasting at the moment but it's over in a week so I will return with some more of my story.

Peace!