Trying to not think about coronavirus? Interesting/kinda funny story on the Athletic about MPJ abandoning his vegan diet to eat some bacon.
https://theathletic.com/1670282/202...ael-porter-jr-never-ate-meat-until-its-bacon/
He sat down with some teammates on a typical sunny Denver morning at Snooze — one of the city’s most popular breakfast spots.
Porter ordered one of Snooze’s “Plant Power” menu items that followed his vegan diet. His teammates, though, got something else. Bacon.
Maybe it was the smell or the appearance of the perfectly crispy strip of bacon, but Porter decided to have a taste.
“There was no going back,” Porter said. “It was just so good.”
To Porter’s surprise, he didn’t suffer any stomach aches after crossing over to the dark side of eating meat, so he decided to give chicken wings a try.
“It was downhill from there,” he said.
That was in fall 2018, just a few months after the Nuggets drafted Porter. Up until that point, Porter had been a vegetarian his entire life.
On the Nuggets trainer and MPJ
For the previous several weeks, he had been working with Porter nonstop, trying to find ways to get the rookie to put on more muscle, yet no matter how much work they did in the gym, nothing was working.
“He came in last year, and we would work out hard, and he wouldn’t put on as much muscle mass as we wanted,” Eichenberger said. “He was always frustrated. So I was like, ‘Can we add fish? Can we add a little bit of different protein to your diet?’ So, we added some chicken here and there and fish and then he gained, what, like 12 to 13 pounds of muscle over the past year.”
Porter entered the league as a vegan and was not fully educated on how to make sure his body got all the fuel it needed to keep up with the pace of the NBA.
“Those guys had been around, knew what to do when it came to getting the right foods,” Eichenberger said. “Porter wasn’t eating the right vegan food.”
Whole family not on board, though
Porter’s sister, Sierra, whom Porter lives with in Denver and does most of the grocery shopping, refuses to purchase the meat Porter has incorporated into his diet.
https://theathletic.com/1670282/202...ael-porter-jr-never-ate-meat-until-its-bacon/
He sat down with some teammates on a typical sunny Denver morning at Snooze — one of the city’s most popular breakfast spots.
Porter ordered one of Snooze’s “Plant Power” menu items that followed his vegan diet. His teammates, though, got something else. Bacon.
Maybe it was the smell or the appearance of the perfectly crispy strip of bacon, but Porter decided to have a taste.
“There was no going back,” Porter said. “It was just so good.”
To Porter’s surprise, he didn’t suffer any stomach aches after crossing over to the dark side of eating meat, so he decided to give chicken wings a try.
“It was downhill from there,” he said.
That was in fall 2018, just a few months after the Nuggets drafted Porter. Up until that point, Porter had been a vegetarian his entire life.
On the Nuggets trainer and MPJ
For the previous several weeks, he had been working with Porter nonstop, trying to find ways to get the rookie to put on more muscle, yet no matter how much work they did in the gym, nothing was working.
“He came in last year, and we would work out hard, and he wouldn’t put on as much muscle mass as we wanted,” Eichenberger said. “He was always frustrated. So I was like, ‘Can we add fish? Can we add a little bit of different protein to your diet?’ So, we added some chicken here and there and fish and then he gained, what, like 12 to 13 pounds of muscle over the past year.”
Porter entered the league as a vegan and was not fully educated on how to make sure his body got all the fuel it needed to keep up with the pace of the NBA.
“Those guys had been around, knew what to do when it came to getting the right foods,” Eichenberger said. “Porter wasn’t eating the right vegan food.”
Whole family not on board, though
Porter’s sister, Sierra, whom Porter lives with in Denver and does most of the grocery shopping, refuses to purchase the meat Porter has incorporated into his diet.
