Maintaining a clean and healthy diet is hard enough work as it is, but eating as a bodybuilder is a whole other ball game. You must eat at least every 3 hours, ensuring the correct amounts of nutrients are taken in at certain times of the day. In reality, being a bodybuilder requires an awful lot of dedication, motivation and planning. Here then is a guide to prepare you in order to avoid missing meals, rushing and cheating.
First of all, you must be sure enough that you are motivated to do this. It is impossible to make this work unless you are really focused and wanting to make this happen. This then requires an awful lot of dedication, willing to not have your favourite cake, willing to say no to MacDonald’s, not drinking alcohol and eating the right foods.
However, you must first be organized and make sure all of the correct food and supplements are in your house in order to ensure that you can achieve the perfect diet, where you won’t need to resort to cheating. Therefore what you need to do is write your plan out, add detail such as how many grams of pasta your eating a week, how many grams of chicken and so on. Then take this plan and buy this amount in every week, which leaves no chance of you not having the right food available. Now you have all of the right amounts of the right food in your kitchen, you now need to make sure it is prepared to take with you wherever you go.
Get yourself a small ‘cooler’ bag, big enough to fit let’s say 6 plastic containers in which all contain one meal. Then make it your duty wherever you are going to have this with you at all times, and when meal time strikes you simply take one portion and get your meal down. Also be sure to carry your meal replacements and a shaker with you wherever you are, which again will leave you with no excuse in missing a meal. When it comes to preparing the food, it is advisable to cook all of your meals the night before, pack them ready for morning, so any unforeseen circumstances in the morning don’t result in you failing to prepare your food for the day. However, if for instance your home for the day then by all means cook each meal fresh and enjoy it. But, whatever you do, do not miss a meal as this holds your progress back like nothing else.
When it comes to eating on the road, it requires much the same organization. However, you may be staying in a hotel with no cooking facilities. Well, this calls for a lot of meal replacements unfortunately and dry snacks such as wholemeal rice cakes buttered with almond butter, protein pancakes and of course protein flapjack bars. Now of course this is far from ideal, but it beats missing a meal and for a couple of days it will at least maintain your progress.
Here is a quick guide to preparing your food, the easiest way to ensure you don’t miss meals and what to use if your away from you home comforts.