Fitness, body building, the works

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
There is no way I could survive on this earth without eating meat.

Yeah, we know you like to eat meat!

Thanks for the tips jm!

Piss off Samwise.

Alittle bit of meat never hurt anyone.

Long time ago I was vegetarian for 2 years. Instead of meat I ate alot of cheese. -> I suggest you never do that. Cheese makes
ppl fat. Now I\'m almost at the end of my diet program and I lost about 61 Lbs since begin August.
I went from 215 Lbs to 154 Lbs ! You can of course eat cheese, but keep it as minimal as possible. Eat meat (NOT fat meat like bacon - rather eat chicken or low fat beef)! That combined with cardio running will make your body get in shape.

I\'m busy right now, but here\'s some foods that are high in protein and low in fat;

Canned tuna
Chicken Breast
Round Eye Steak
Skim Milk

those are the staples of the body builders diet.

You should add Turkey onto that list, too.

White turkey if you are having it from a whole one, or cold cuts are great too.

Aww, don\'t get a hissy fit Racer. I still wub you.

So, in relation to red meat, how does tuna rate in the protein department? I am not a fan of high protein diets, as they can really screw with your bodily functions. The way I see it you just need enough protein for your body to recoup from any muscle stress.

Is that right?

[Kurt Angle]

Don\'t bodybuilders eat lots of pasta too?

I like eating tuna, that\'s what I used a few months ago when I tried to lose weight..... And guess what, it worked. I just sorta kinda went off course and haven\'t lost much since then, but at least I\'m looking better and feeling better too.

Tuna has about 24 grams of protien per can, about equal to a skinless chicken breast, or a steak.  

As for high protein diets, they are safe, as long as you keep it below 300 grams a day, because that can put a little bit too much stress on your GI system.

Also, as mentioned above turkey is good for high protein and low fat.  Also lean ham is good, 2% fat ground beef is alright, but not great.  Most fish is pretty lean.

To answer the pasta question.  Most BBers try to stay away from the pastas, but stamina athletes gobble the stuff up like there\'s no tomarrow.  However, after a show some BBers will carbo load with pasta (usually they\'ll be on a cyclical ketogenic diet, if they carbo load)

What are your veiws on eggs theomen?

So, BB\'s don\'t have high carb diets? I always, always, thought that carb\'s were important for their energy levels.

Carbs would pack on the fat though, but also still make you bigger right?

most BBers do something close to a 40% protein, 50% Carbs, 10% Fat diet.  Considering that carbs are in soooo many foods, it\'s actually pretty low.  but what alot of them do now is the cyclical ketogenic diet, where they have less than 20g\'s of carbs per day, but eat around 200-500 on the weekend, as a carbo load, so that they have energy for the week.  And Actually w/ the CKD, once your body goes into ketosis, you\'ll have ample energy, so the carbs aren\'t really neccecary for energy.

As for eggs, I believe that they can be beneficial....well the whites can be, since they have about 4-6 g\'s of protein per serving.  However I only eat egg beater type eggs.  They have 6g\'s of protein per serving, and ZERO fat and ZERO carbs...doesn\'t get any better than that.