20 Super Foods You Need To Build Muscle & Lose Fat

[MikeMartial]

Taken from StrongLifts.com, Mehdi posted up a solid article on nutrition:

To build muscle & lose fat, you need a variety of proteins, veggies, fruits, carbs, and healthy fats. Eating protein helps building & maintaining muscle. But it also helps fat loss: protein has a higher thermic effect than carbs/fats. Eating fats also helps fat loss: your body holds fat if you don

 

[Centaur]

Nice.

I eat everything there regularly except apples. I hate apples. Apple Sauce?
I need to start drinking Green tea again. Before I moved I had like 5 boxes, that's how much I drank it. I guess the sun is out now so I don't think of it as often.


What up with peanut butter? I stopped buying it completely and getting almond butter now.

Thanks for posting that Mike.

 

[Ziltoid]

This is great for the people coming on here bitching about gaining weight or losing fat. I do just about everything in this article and have had great success in gaining mass. My friend that I work with wants to gain weight as well. I have to point him to this thread. I already told him what I did but if he needs to see it on paper, or on screen I should say.

Thank you Mr. Martial.

 

[TopCat]

I need to start drinking Green tea again. Before I moved I had like 5 boxes, that's how much I drank it. I guess the sun is out now so I don't think of it as often.

You can use green tea as the base of your oatmeals and shakes. You can also use it to help make applesauce in a processor/blender. Or just make a bug jug, flavor it with splenda/stevia, and drink it iced.

 

[Centaur]

You can use green tea as the base of your oatmeals and shakes. You can also use it to help make applesauce in a processor/blender. Or just make a bug jug, flavor it with splenda/stevia, and drink it iced.

Ya, that's what I did last year. Big jug. Stevia is pricey (not really, I'm just cheap) so I just use lemon juice and put my Greens + in it too.

Good call though.

 

[Chaseg1520]

*sniff sniff* do I smell a sticky?

 

[kuroMaguro]

When it says

"Eat proteins, veggies, fruits & fats every 3 hours. 2 cups water with each meal. Carbs post workout only. Junk food 10% of the time. Get stronger in the meanwhile and you

 

[Rowan11088]

When it says

"Eat proteins, veggies, fruits & fats every 3 hours. 2 cups water with each meal. Carbs post workout only. Junk food 10% of the time. Get stronger in the meanwhile and you

 

[Chad Hamilton]

Low-fat yogurt?

Why not the full fat?

My belly seems to like the whole product much better than the fat-stripped. I have a lactose issue with the lower fat varieties of anything dairy.

 

[Rowan11088]

Dairy fats are "not recommended", as I recently read in a different thread. Get your fat intake elsewhere.

 

[Samurai Jack]

*sniff sniff* do I smell a sticky?

me too..

 

[Chad Hamilton]

Nah, I'll keep my dairy as "intact" as I can get it.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Do not worry about the carbohydrates from vegetables, or reasonable fruit portions. It is the starches, sugars, and liquid calories that should be limited.

9g of EPA/DHA is a good bit for supplemental use. I tend to use around 3g daily.

 

[stylesbjj**]

Paste a except and then provide a link to the specific article to give stronglifts.com more hits. We gotta support our sources of info.

 

[Vedic]

Do i agree with all of it, no. Do i agree with a lot of it, yup

 

[mschatz]

9 gms of epa/dha??? I dont think I can choke down that many fish oil pills...

 

[GSPforLIFE]

I've read a number of 'top food for muscle building, fat loss, etc.' lists, but I have to say this is my new favourite. Very succinct and informative thread. Thanks, Mike.

 

[GSPforLIFE]

9 gms of epa/dha??? I dont think I can choke down that many fish oil pills...

As if that isn't bad enough, your significant other probably won't appreciate it very much either :icon_cry2.

 

[Michael Wanaka]

When it says

"Eat proteins, veggies, fruits & fats every 3 hours. 2 cups water with each meal. Carbs post workout only. Junk food 10% of the time. Get stronger in the meanwhile and you

 

[Cap'n]

No coffee?