Dieting to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat

Gaining weight in the form of lean muscle can be difficult. If the body doesn't get what it needs to build, the response (weight gain itself) is likely to be hindered. The real key to gaining weight is high consumption of some foods and limited consumption of others. This diet is termed the anabolic diet.

Protein is the most prominent source of nutrition that muscles use to build. To gain a significant amount of weight, it is recommended to eat your weight in grams of protein per day. This is sometimes pretty tough to do. An example of how this can be achieved would be to eat eggs for breakfast, turkey for lunch, and red meat such as ground beef or steak for dinner, snacking on cans of tuna and nuts during the day. Also, there are several companies that make protein filled whey shake mixes. One of these shakes can contain up to 54 grams of protein in a serving!

Carbohydrates are the source of nutrition that should be limited. It takes a lot of food to get the amount of protein one needs to build serious muscle. Foods such So, to put it simply, there really just isn't that much room for carbohydrates.

An additional advantage to this type of diet is that the body's main source of energy will switch. Under normal dieting circumstance, the muscles tend to use carbohydrates most. This is because they are the easiest to convert into usable energy. But when they are taken away, the body has no choice but to convert its primary energy source to harder-to-use fat. So, in addition to building muscle, fat will be used up as well.

This dieting technique combined with intense exercise will work to lead you toward a leaner, meaner physique. And, as the muscles get bigger, body fat will drop in direct correlation. So the longer you stick with it, the bigger and leaner you will become.