i have just started goin to the gym whats the best food to have every day?

Question

for like breakfast dinner and tea as i get fed up with salad all the time

Answer 1

First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

you dont have to just eat salads!! best foods for you depends on what type of workout you are doing.

If your doing to burn calories, take foods with lots of energy prone items. Like fish, chicken, vegies, a little sugar intake.

If you want to build muscle or be a little cut, eat high protein types of foods. Beef is always a good source. Stay away from pills!!!

But then again, it depends on the person. Everybodies body is different, so you have to figure out how you work well with certain foods. What gives you a high amount of energy and positive feed backs.

Before I go running, I eat a light meal and rest for about 20 min to let it kinda settle. I would eat either a bowl of honey combs (good amouts of sugar to burn) , a whole fruit, or a granola bar.

A huge part of your exercise is WATER. water does wonders to your body and also can help you in the long run. :)

Answer 3

while you're severe approximately dropping weight, possibly the main robust potential is to enhance the intensity of each artwork. Take 40 5/4 for representation(it is greater robust than 60/3 by the type) and take a seem at to enhance the intensity each week with the help of way of slowly imposing a walk/run activities. Jog for a 2 min than walk for 4, and so on., conserving this up for 30 min. a week attempt to enhance the quantity of time working. examine have shown that persons who make certain at greater efficient intensity burn greater skill in the time of the day or perhaps right here from what's oftentimes happening via fact the "afterburn" very final consequence.

Answer 4

It would depend as to why you are going to the Gym, lose weight, build muscle, build strength, increase stamina, etc.. You should always try to eat a varied diet of fruit, vegetables and proteins. Don't exclude sugars and fats from your diet, apart from becoming boring like most peoples interpretation of a salad, it may suppress your metabolic rate. If you associate going to the Gym with being good the occasional lapse can't be a bad thing.

Answer 5

Fruits, fiber, and mostly protein. Personally, I don't believe in cutting back on carbs since they give me power, but if you are aiming to lose weight then that's your choice. I eat oatmeal or cereal for breakfast because it keeps me full until lunch. At lunch, I'll have rice and vegetables with some sort of meat (mostly fish). In the afternoon, I'll snack on an apple or pudding. And I skip dinner entirely because I'm not hungry. The key is to only eat when you're hungry.

Answer 6

Porridge for breakfast - lasts a long time before you're hungry again, lean chicken or fish with pasta/potatoes/rice and veg! Bananas for pudding and just before you head to the gym - Easy peasy... Have fun at the gym and good luck

Answer 7

Within an hour of your workout, have a banana or two, to help replenish the potassium you'll lose through sweating. I've also convinced myself I can have an extra pint or two of Guinness, with it being full of iron, and therefore very good for me!

Answer 8

Eat a good mix of foods, no food should be "bad" just be careful of the amount you eat of high fat or sugary foods. Eat complex carbs (look up GI diet to give you more info) for sustained energy.

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Answer 10

if your going to the gym ...knock the salads on the head....eat lots of protein like meat etc...all so take snacks with you to the gym...bananas are a good idea