{"id":455,"date":"2010-07-30T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leanmeanvirilemachine.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2010-07-29T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T15:22:54","slug":"the-james-bond-diet-and-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theguycancook.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/the-james-bond-diet-and-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Bond Diet and Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When you’re Britain’s top secret agent, you gotta be in fantastic shape. You need to excel in hand-to-hand combat with sinister henchmen, look suave in a tuxedo, and attract enough women that you rarely go to bed alone – and often all three of these in the course of 24 hours.<\/p>\n

For this article, I went straight to the source – Ian Fleming’s original novels – to figure out how James Bond was able to stay very thin at six feet tall and 165 lbs.<\/p>\n

James Bond’s Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bond would have been horrified at the six-meals-a-day trend currently going on. Carrying around Tupperware wherever you go? Uh-uh. JB is strictly a three meal guy. Anything more would be too high-maintenance. And he’s right, too. The many-small-meals fad is mostly based on shoddy science. Much easier to do the traditional breakfast-lunch-dinner. Your metabolism will be just fine.<\/p>\n

Also, Bond ate nothing but Real Food. Of course, these books were written during the 50s and 60s, when the Processed Food Revolution was still years away. But it makes you think… I’ve always maintained that the turn towards refined food has led to more obesity and illness than any other dietary shift.<\/p>\n

Scrambled Eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If there’s a “signature James Bond meal” it’s scrambled eggs. He eats them for breakfast, lunch, or dinner – generally with coffee and bacon or sausage. Bond ate so much that Fleming even included a recipe for them in his short story “Thrilling Cities”:<\/p>\n

For four individualists:
\n12 fresh eggs
\nSalt and pepper
\n5-6 oz. of fresh butter.<\/p>\n

Break the eggs into a bowl. Beat thoroughly with a fork and season well. In a small copper (or heavy bottomed saucepan) melt four oz. of the butter. When melted, pour in the eggs and cook over a very low heat, whisking continuously with a small egg whisk.<\/p>\n

While the eggs are slightly more moist than you would wish for eating, remove the pan from heat, add rest of butter and continue whisking for half a minute, adding the while finely chopped chives or fines herbes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearance only) with pink champagne (Taittinger) and low music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most people would freak about that much butter – that’s a whole stick up there – but you should throw it in anyways. It will give you the creamiest scrambled eggs you have ever tasted and provide you with the important fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, and K. Besides, the low fat fad has been exposed for the sham that it always was<\/a>. Time to celebrate by gorging on fatty foods!<\/p>\n

The Meals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay, Bond doesn’t eat scrambled eggs ALL the time. When he’s abroad, he likes to eat the regional specialties, and when he’s back in Jolly Old England, he prefers simple but tasty food. Here’s the typical fare for him:<\/p>\n

Breakfast:<\/p>\n