Go plant-based and gain muscle

Lauren Taylor chats to Jeffrey Boadi about fuelling his fitness

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Jeffrey Boadi.

When Jeffrey Boadi first considered giving up meat, fish and diary, he didn’t think he could do it.

The content creator and former semiprofessional footballer was used to eating “three or four eggs every single day” plus a lot of chicken and fish.

“Being an athlete, you think you need to get as much protein in your diet as possible,” he says.

“Around two years before I went plant-based, a guy I knew at the time said he was going to give it a try. My initial, visceral reaction was to be like, ‘how could you do that? I need meat or I'll wither away!”

And, having grown up in a Ghanaian household, “I genuinely felt like a meal wasn’t complete without meat.”

Yet, Boadi, has now been plant-based for eight years - having changed his diet entirely overnight after watching the 2017 Netflix documentary What The Health.

And, he says, “I’ve put on a fair amount of muscle over the years.”