Dave Rubin details his weight-loss success through a ten-food regimen featuring 450-degree skirt steak, Force of Nature ground beef, and albacore tuna. He emphasizes hydration via watermelon and electrolytes while substituting sugar with local honey and pasture-raised eggs from ethical farms. By cooking chicken thighs at 390 degrees and using three-month-aged reposado tequila, Rubin achieves his lowest weight in six years. Ultimately, this ancestral approach to nutrition proves that whole foods and precise cooking methods can reverse health decline without processed additives. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, so you know, we did that video about Dave's meat a couple months ago and people all over the internet, they said the same thing.
Dave, we love your meat, but we want to see more.
We want more.
And today, we decided to give them a little bit more.
That's right.
These are Dave's 10 staples.
These are actually the 10 staples in my diet, pretty much the things that are getting into one way or another every meal that I eat.
And people have been commenting on the glow up.
I'm at the lowest weight I've been in six years doing my thing.
I'm out there.
It's also a function of just sweating in the Florida summers.
But I want to just go through quickly some of the things that I'm doing because I'm just trying to eat.
I'm not crazy about dieting, as I told you guys.
It's nice and simple and clean and all basically all whole foods, nothing boxed and that kind of stuff.
So very simply, the easiest thing, I mean, I think the thing that changed me the most is just eating more red meat in general and a skirt steak, which is not super expensive.
Go for the prime if you can afford it, but choice is okay too.
A skirt steak, you cannot screw it up.
It's going to be thin and juicy and there's enough fat in there that I promise you, you're not going to burn it.
You're not going to overcook it.
Bake it for four, do 450, 16 minutes, let it sit for five minutes.
You have an absolutely juicy steak.
And of course, if you're doing that, one of my main staples, and I'm not sponsored by any of these brands, I'm not asking for sponsorships or anything else.
I'm just telling you what I'm buying over here.
Get a good salt and pepper blend, nice coarse salt and pepper.
Coarse is the key.
You don't want just fine, you know, kind of feathery, dusty salt and pepper.
You want coarse salt and pepper.
It'll give you a nice crust and a nice char on that.
So salt and pepper, which I do on steak, but I do on pretty much everything else.
Then I mentioned to you guys, and this was a little controversial when I mentioned it last time, chicken thighs, chicken thighs.
People think about the breasts, but I want you to think about the thighs.
Okay.
I know people like the breasts, but I want you to think about the thigh and focus on the thigh a little bit more.
Thighs are a little juicier.
You can cook them a little bit longer and you're not going to dry them out.
Is there anything worse other than a Democrat than dry chicken?
No, obviously.
You are not going to dry this out.
I'm telling you, if you got an air fryer, get yourself an air fryer.
What are we talking about?
Preheat it to about 390 for like three minutes.
Throw these bad boys in there with a little salt and pepper, maybe a little garlic powder.
That's all you need.
Or do your favorite rub.
That's it.
Throw them in there for about 18 minutes.
You're going to have the juiciest, crispiest chicken you ever had.
This one has become a major, major staple for me.
So just ground beef in general is just good, right?
You're getting protein, you're getting some fat.
This particular brand has this great blend.
Again, these are not sponsors, but this is Force of Nature, and this is grass-fed beef, and it's regenerative farming.
And the ancestral blend, which has grass-fed beef, obviously, but it also has beef liver and beef heart.
And you can even see it.
I mean, there's some stuff in there that's not just beef.
You're getting the organ meat in there.
And you can talk to Paul Saladino about the value of Oregon meat.
So I do a lot of that.
Sometimes I'll just take a pound of that tiny bit of olive oil in the pan and I'll crack like four eggs in there and that probably be like two lunches.
Then like the easiest thing in the world that everyone loves, but nobody should forget about is just a simple can of albacore tuna.
Don't get that chunk-like cat food stuff, the mush.
Don't do that.
Throw in the extra dollar or can.
Get yourself some good tuna.
I mean, the numbers on here, you're getting, it's 180 calories and you're getting 23, no, 33 grams of protein in one can.
Like this is good stuff.
As some of you know, I used to survive on industrial strength tuna, giant vats of tuna that a buddy of mine when I was a struggling comic, he worked in food service, used to give me huge vats of tuna and I'll probably die of mercury poison one day, but it's worth it.
It's worth it.
Okay, then this has been a new one and you don't have to buy it pre.
I know, I know.
I'm going to lead us over here.
You don't have to buy it pre-sliced or pre-cubed, but just watermelon, watermelon.
It's good for you.
It's not going to spike the sugar, especially if you live in a warm place.
You're going to get some extra hydration.
Sometimes I just do a steak and watermelon for lunch and it's great and it's crunchy.
And if it gets a little bit of the salt or some of that meat juice on there, really delicious.
My main go-to on the side, the only lettuce that I will ever need ever is arugula.
I love the arugula, as Steve Martin said in My Blue Heaven.
Arugula, it's a vegetable.
Get yourself some arugula and then just something simple, a little olive oil drizzle on top, a little balsamic.
You're good to go.
Honey, people, get yourself some local honey.
It's just, you don't need sugar on anything.
I don't do sugar.
I can't remember the last time I took a spoonful of sugar and did anything.
Honey on top of anything.
Put it on top of your chicken after you grilled up your chicken.
You could put it on your steak if you want to put it on your steak.
A little bit on the side of your plate just to kind of dip around.
You don't need any saucy sauces or any of that crazy stuff.
This one's not something that, well, I do have it every day, but it seems like it's slightly misplaced here.
But just electrolyte tablets.
I just throw one of these in some water in the morning.
Just get that burst of electrolytes.
Again, I'm in a place that you sweat all the time.
So just replenishing some of those nutrients, really, really simple, really good.
And then probably the thing that I eat more than anything else besides the meat, organic eggs.
Just get organic eggs.
Make sure the chicken's treated okay.
Nobody wants the chicken that's been smacked around and abused.
You know what I mean?
Like Purdue used to do to those chickens.
Remember those Purdue commercials?
This guy would walk in there, pretend he liked all the chickens, and then he'd walk out like, okay, ladies, see you later.
And if you get a good egg, I mean, you really can tell the color of the yolk is just so much nicer.
So much either a yellow or an orange.
It's just richer.
You can do that nice and easy.
And here's the secret, guys.
If you want just like a little bit of extra protein and you want a nice creamy scrambled egg, look at this.
One scoop.
Cottage cheese.
I went with low-fat cottage cheese right there.
Get them in there.
You got your low heat going.
I like a wooden spoon, like I'm a good Amish guy.
And we're just going to mix a little bit every now and again.
Get those yolks broken.
I like when it's kind of a little bit messy, actually.
I don't like my eggs to be totally uniform, so I don't mind a little bit of a Rorschach going in there.
And you let that go for maybe two, three minutes, and you're going to have delicious, moist, creamy, fluffy other adjective, other adjective eggs.
And I definitely invented this method, so make sure everyone on Instagram knows that when you see all these other people that put cottage cheese in eggs, you know what I'm talking about?
Or used butter for the pan.
And boom, look at that.
You got cheesy, moist, delicious puevos, as we say down here in Miami.
Right on the plate.
You don't even, you don't even need salt and pepper, just nothing.
That cottage cheese gives it some flavor and the flavor of fresh eggs.