Is an all meat diet good for gaining muscle?
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i was wondering if an all meat diet is good for building muscle. i will also drink protein shakes, plus do resistance training.
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you also need to add carbs to your diet.All meat doesn’t give you the fruits and vegs. and grains. My son plays football and bodybuilds for that.Protein shakes are good.Eat eggs,yougurt,cottage cheese,chiken,shrip,vegs.as well
Well for muscle building, the critical daily amount is 0.9 to 1.1g of protein per pound of body weight. So a 200 pound individual should get 180-220g’s daily. However, if you do not consume carbohydrates and fats along with your meals, your body simply burns the consumed protein instead of using it to build muscle.
An all meat diet isnt too far a stretch from the Atkins diet. Your body goes into ketosis, meaning its primary fuel source is fat instead of carbohydrates. Unfortunately, your lifts are usually weaker too, because muscular glycogen(obtained from eating carbohydrates) is the most efficient and easily available energy source. So it can be counter productive to big muscular gains.
If you are also drinking protein drinks, then it’s not an all meat diet.
No, it’s NOT good for gaining muscle. You can’t work out very well from a hospital bed, which is where your hare-brained idea will get you.
Here’s a tip. There are TONS of good books and magazines on body building and fitness. Try reading a few, and get over the idea that you know better than professionals.
For one, if you are eating all meat that isn’t healthy for you. You would become very constipated because you are getting little to no fiber in your diet.
Second, you’d be intaking too much fat and protein from the meat itself so drinking protein shakes would just be a waste of money. Your body would literally be pissing it out because it can’t absorb it. The threshold for protein would be quickly reached.
Third, you’d get very bloated and gassy from a diet like that.
I would choose a well balanced diet with FRUITS and VEGETABLES.
you will get very sick and feel like **** you need some form of fibre or fruit an vegetable
Hi,
After reading your question I thought I would give you some pointers I have learned the hard way from my own bad ‘uninformed’ choices.
Keeping to any plan that fights against addictive habits is tough but being fit and strong versus being fat and sickly is all about how many calories you eat versus how many you burn and IF the calories are mostly the BEST QUALITY PROTEINS or mostly junk sugar-carbs. Athletes all learn to watch their nutrition and muscle quality like a good trainer would watch over his thoroughbred race horse.
Many years ago I found that the Atkins Diet Plan made me healthier compared to my old high carb diet since it put my diabetes symptoms into remission, but please consider my experiences when I used the Atkins philosophy for my long term nutrition.
After the Atkins plan caused many diseases, what now works best in order for me to keep my pruritus-Urticaria in remission, after my gallbladder-biliary-liver and heart disease problems, is a VEGAN diet that is low-carb low-fat and high-protein. Because of my gallbladder-biliary-liver disease I no longer can eat nuts or olive oil or dressings or other fats or any cholesterol because it causes immediate pruritus since my liver’s biliary system is plugged with cholesterol and calcium sludge, and I can not eat too many carbs because of yeast infections that break out after one, two, or three high carb meals.
What I now do is what they teach most students in high school nutrition classes – which is to add up the vitamins and minerals from my ‘digestible’ foods and calculating the RDA’s [Recommended Dietary Allowances] or DV’s [Daily Reference Values] for each day to see if I am more than 100%. Things like bran is not considered since it is not digestible for humans, and is like a work horse or work oxen eating straw instead of digestible grass or alfalfa leaves. Also, after I accidentally poisoned myself with supplements, I leaned that supplements like iron and magnesium and colloidal silver etc are super toxic since they are ‘metallic’ minerals and oftentimes raw fertilizers with a 1000 fold markup. These ‘metallic’ mineral supplements have not yet been converted into a non-toxic food when during photosynthesis the electrons in a fertilizer are stripped away making it the more positively charged ‘non-metallic’ and non-toxic mineral element within the plant. Also, the highly profitable synthetic vitamin supplements I used to purchase have no unambiguous research backing them, and there is some obviously valid research concluding that they are more toxic than beneficial to any animal that has ever consumed them.
What now keeps my diseases in remission is mostly a diet of cooked lentils then mixed with tomato sauce and boiled celery to make a quick microwave super high protein veg-chili. I boil all my foods since my digestive system is in such poor shape and I need as many nutrients as I can get out of the semi-expensive foods I buy. I used to eat much more meat when I was an Adkins dieter, before my pruritus attacks became so obvious that the cholesterol and fats in the meat or eggs was the root cause. FYI – IF you know of people getting colon cancer, it was during my Adkins period I learned to always eat enough vegetables to be a minimum of 2 x the weight of the meat that I ate – in order to not have any constipation or worse. I used to have reddish stools since I was likely on my way to getting colon cancer myself from eating much more meat protein than I could ever digest properly in my stomach and colon.
After the Atkins Diet allowed my present health issues, I replaced the crock potted round steak or beef heart or chicken and sometimes river trout in my chili with lentils, because I learned that the nutritional content of lentils ranks high alongside, and comparable to, very lean meat or lean fish if it is grown in well fertilized soil. [Note: e.g. the labels on store bought spinach sometimes have a 4 fold difference in nutrition based upon the fertility of the soils and the growing methods for the farms it is grown on.]
I also eat a-lot of boiled frozen broccoli and boiled organic or re-washed and re-boiled canned spinach with a vinaigrette of organic sugar with glass_bottled_cider_vinegar. The glassware is because of some friends that got lupus from eating too much plastic stuff, or inhaling it since they were house painters who used vinyl paints.
The nutritional DV numbers that I now eat are three times what most others in my family are eating every day. I keep at about 100% and they are about 25 to 33%, but they are all morbidly obese diabetics. Even though I was once morbidly obese myself and had a heart attack from too many carbs for too long, (which I think gave me all the symptoms of beriberi, scurvy and pellagra, along with the beginnings of my gallbladder-biliary-liver disease,) I am now more fit in comparison to most others I know.
I hope you have learned something from my ‘mistakes’ that will soon help you along your way.