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Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle or improve any aspect of your body or health, setting up your entire diet plan correctly is an absolute requirement for reaching any of these types of goals. The problem is, between your daily calorie, protein, fat and carb intake and the food sources you’re getting these nutrients from, diet and nutrition …
If I had to guess, I’d say the most common goal in the diet and fitness world is weight loss. Nothing else even comes close. That’s probably why there are thousands of weight loss tips, diets and methods, thousands of programs, plans and products designed for losing weight, and millions of books, websites and articles written about how to lose …
Let me guess. You want to know how to gain weight fast, don’t you? Well, as a guy who used to be 5’11 120lbs, I know EXACTLY how you feel. While it seems like most people are interested in weight loss, there are actually TONS of men and women out there who have the opposite goal… weight gain. We are …
The post workout meal (the meal you eat after a workout) is probably the most important meal of the day for anyone who cares about nutrition or wants to build muscle, lose fat or improve their body. However, it’s also the meal that confuses people the most. There are just so many different recommendations for what to eat during this …
Have you ever heard that you shouldn’t eat after 7 PM? Or maybe 8 PM? Or how about 6 PM? Or 5 PM? Or 9 PM? Or any other specific time at night? No? Then maybe you just heard that you shouldn’t eat late at night in general? That doing so is somehow bad for weight loss or that it …
The term clean eating has become pretty popular over the last couple of years, mostly among people with the goal of weight loss, or maybe building muscle without gaining fat. For the most part, clean eating means the same thing as healthy eating, only to a somewhat higher degree and for a somewhat different purpose. If you want to look …
When it comes to setting up your weight loss or muscle building diet and figuring out how many meals you should eat per day, there’s 1 common tip that you’ve definitely heard before. And that tip is that you should eat 5 or 6 small meals per day (once every 2-3 hours) instead of the more typical diet setup of …
When your goal is weight loss, you have a ton of different diet plans you could choose from to reach your goal. There’s low carb, low fat, Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig, and literally hundreds of others that involve all sorts of different methods. But, in the back of the mind of everyone who ends up choosing …
The low carb diet plan is one of the most talked about and well known weight loss diets around. Various low carb foods are now commonly found in everyday supermarkets in addition to the health food and supplement stores they’ve always been in. Some restaurants even have a special section on their menu just for people on this type of …
One of the most common questions I get asked by people trying to put together the best diet possible for their goal (to lose weight, build muscle, etc.) is how many grams of carbs they should eat per day. This never surprises me, because carbs are pretty much always the nutrient that people are most often scared of and confused …