Eat for Your Muscles

How do you feed your muscles?  Well everyone is a little bit different. Yesterday I posted a video that explained macronutrients.  If you haven’t yet watched it, please take 5 minutes to do so.  It will help determine what you need to be focusing on eating.

So when you are done sit down and figure out how many grams of carbs, protein, and healthy fat you need to be consuming a day.  Then sit down and make a list of everything you do eat, when you are done plug it all into an app like “myfitness pal” so you can see what you are getting every day.

Now figure out what you need to change.  If you are hitting 50% fat instead of 20-30% well, you need to cut out whatever foods is getting those numbers too high.

Are you getting enough protein or not enough?  Now protein in a mixture such as whey, casein, and egg protein is a great supplement, and I take it when am working out and in my smoothies, but you need to be getting protein from whole food sources as well, it’s not enough in a powder form.  Chicken, turkey, and fish are great sources, while maintaining the leanness (fish has some great omega fat in it).  Eggs, milk, cottage chesse, greek yogurt, all these are excellent sources of protein.

When some people think of carbs what pops in your head?  I’ve heard of gyms giving people pizza and have seen pizza at the end of marathons.  I cringe at this.  Sure it’s a carb but it’s empty calories.  Your carbs should come from whole grains, whole wheat breads, potatoes both white and sweet, or an excellent source.  Also brown rice, bananas, whole grain oats all are a killer source.

So figure out how much of each you should be getting and make the right decisions when it comes to where you are getting your fats, proteins, and carbs from.

If you have further questions I would love to talk to you directorb.blog@gmail.com