Muscle Building Diet
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Do 30 minutes of exercise before you eat breakfast. If you exercise after your eat you will burn the calories you just ate instead of the fat. You have to combine strength (weights) with dieting to prevent/slow down muscle loss as you lose weight.
Breakfast: 8-12 oz protein shake. (This is where you can get your chocolate fix.)
Lunch: egg whites, fried, 6 oz yogurt (I like Weight Watchers) and a granola bar
Dinner: hamburger patty, not the leanest [No Bread] a vegetable or two
Snack: (at least 2 hours before bed) small bowl of Natural grains cereal
Also you might add 15 almonds a day for the heart.
No bread is a big plus. Also use pepper instead of salt. Salt, as you know, retains water and you want to drink plenty to keep your system flushed.
Interspersed during the day are chin-ups, push-ups, bowflex legs. I have stopped almost all of the bowflex upper body because it did not strengthen the core like free weights. We have a variety of exercise videos and combine them with Tammy Lee's Abs of Steel daily.
This is hard advice to give to a dieter because it can become 'the excuse to eat more'. That being said, if you are exercising and watching what you eat and you are not losing inches (you lose inches first), try adding a snack mid-afternoon. If that was the right thing to do you should see a 1/2 pound drop in 24 hrs. _______________________________________________________________
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