Meatloaf recipe

Several people have asked me about my meatloaf recipe. Over the past months I’ve tried several “muscle building” and low fat/carb/sugar meat loaf recipes. I have always loved meatloaf and since I am now single again I wanted to start cooking in bulk for several meals for the week. After several trial and error attempts this is the one I have been making regularly, I can cook it on Sunday and have about 5-6 meals for the next week or so.

Muscle Meatloaf

2 lbs ground meat (either turkey or quality beef, I prefer 93/7 beef)
4 whole eggs (I don’t separate whites, but you can do 2/2 if you want)
2 cups old fashioned oat meal
2 Tbsp BBQ sauce (I use Famous Daves Rich and Sassy)

Throw in various spices to taste. I don’t measure these so feel free to adjust or replace and mix and match as you want. These are some common ones in order from most to least that I use:
Cookies Seasoning or Old Bay Seasoning
Chili powder
Mrs Dash
Oregeno
Black Pepper

I don’t use ketchup because it’s so high in sugar and carbs, plus the little bit of BBQ sauce and spices add enough flavor. Sometimes I will put some hot sauce on the top before cooking.

Mix it all together and put in olive oiled meat loaf or other such baking pan. Cook at 350 degrees for 90 minutes. Remove from oven let cool and cut into servings and put in storage containers. I can usually get 5-6 meals if I cut it right.

Honestly I don’t know the detailed nutritional info on this, I have just tried to keep the protein high, fat and carbs reasonable, and sugar low.

Head pain

On Tuesday I went to the gym to do a regular workout. I streched and warmed up a bit and did my normal back extensions no problem. Then I went to do just a simple bench press, nothing heavy just start out with 10 reps at 135lbs. But on the 7-8 rep my head started to hurt really bad with a shooting blinding pain. So I stopped, sat for a bit and walked it off to try and clear it. After a few minutes it seemed to calm down, so I tried again, same pain. I was like wtf? I rarely ever get headaches. I decided to give up on the bench and just do some simple dumb bell curls, I managed to get through a set but decided to give up on weight lifting for the evening and just do a boring 20 minutes on the stationary bike.

My head was still hurting, but not too bad. Wednesday and Thursday I felt pretty good so last night I was going to try again and get a normal workout, maybe a little lighter, depending on how it went. But sure enough as soon and I got in to some reps, terrible pain in my head. I was pissed. So I just went back home and let it all calm down.

Today I have a doctor’s appointment so we’ll see if anything is wrong or what. Since I don’t get headaches people keep telling me I need to get it checked out and not just “wait it out”. I really have no idea what it could be. I hope it’s nothing. I want to get back in to the gym, because other than work and my kids, I don’t really have anything else do to.