5 Simple Tips For Sticking To Your Diet

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As anyone who’s undergone some serious training for a body transformation will tell you; pumping iron in the gym is the easy part – the hard part is your diet. Diet is just as important, if not more important than what you do in the gym when trying to build muscle mass or lose weight.

The main difference here is that you may spend an hour or two in the gym a day, but you diet 24 hours a day. As you can imagine, the diet becomes the hardest part to stick to as the days and weeks roll by in your training program.  With that said, there are certain things you can do thought to make the process a bit easier and start eating right on a routine basis.

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Eating Clean on a Budget

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Do you eat clean? If not, don’t expect to see the same results in the gym as those who do.

It’s that simple. If you aren’t feeding your body what it needs to pack on muscle, lose fat or whatever it may be that you are trying to accomplish, then a lot of that hard work you are doing in the gym is going to waste.

I always hear people complaining about how expensive it is to eat clean (healthy). While eating clean can be a bit pricey if you don’t know what you are doing, it’s really not all that bad.

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10 Foods You Should Never Eat

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Do you have a sweet tooth? Ever have a late night craving for some fast food?

You probably answered yes to at least one of those questions and that’s fine. Sometimes you just need a candy bar. However, if your even semi health conscious you’ve probably wondered at some point about the nutritional value of the food in your pantry or how bad that cheese burger really is for you.

A lot of times those nutrition labels on the back of food packaging seem like a foreign language and don’t actually tell you the facts. Sometimes they are even plain deceiving.

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7 Great Meals for Weightlifters

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Lifting is important, but what’s even more important is your diet. If you want to maximize your gains in the gym, then you need to be eating the right meals. Not just any meal, you need to be eating meals for weight lifters (yes they exist). Once you get your diet in sync with your lifting, you will see a noticeable difference in your results. Who doesn’t want awesome results? If you’re going to do something, do it right. Don’t half ass it. What’s the point in that? Eating right isn’t just good for gaining muscle, it’s just plain healthy. You only get one body(YOGOB), don’t screw it up feeding it unhealthy crap.

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