A Few Dinners - Beef & Mahi Mahi

Here are a couple of recent dinners.  The main "new" thing is a slightly smaller portion of grass feed beef.  Instead of my "normal" 1/2 lb pre-cooked weight, I'm cutting back to 1/3 lb.  In part, this is due to reading Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet.  One thing I learned from that is my protein intake was >100 grams on a typical day (in fact close to 140g).  That's essentially more than any human can process, and there are some potential negative consequences of eating that much protein.

There's a potential problem with too much protein. Your body doesn't store excess protein. It either converts it to glucose, if necessary (with 55% efficiency, usually when you're eating very low-carb), or your body excretes the excess. In theory, the excretion requires too much work from the kidneys, and the excretion turns the excess into ammonia, which could leech calcium from your bones as a protective measure. Dr. Christopher Gardner speculates about this in a YouTube video while discussing the results of the A to Z study. link

So, if we're cutting back the protein by 40g or about 160 calories, what are we going to do to replace the calories?  Answers:

   1) add more Ghee to the stir fry
   2) top the burger with 1 tbsp of grass fed butter
   3) make sure to add a strip of bacon to the veggies.

Yum!

The second dish was baked Mahi Mahi, and basically the same veggie mix.  I did not put butter on the fish, but maybe I will next time.

Baked Mahi Mahi with veggies... I love Cayenne pepper

Rufus - the other kitchen helper