Foods to eat to avoid rapid fat loss

By The Standard | Oct. 14, 2017 | 2 Min read

IT’S only seven days before the Zim Nationals Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships showdown and I am going to share with you my typical pre-contest meal guide, supplementation and some of the food I try to avoid for rapid fat loss.

By Tinotenda Ryan C Gumbo

This is meant to help those competing and those of you who want to burn fat.

During my contest-preparation phase, my goal is to shed fat slowly without losing muscle.

Losing fat along with precious muscle is a dead-end street, culminating in a lean, but flat-looking physique.

To appear really hard and super full on stage, I must hold onto all of my muscle with a low level of body fat because that is what will make me look frighteningly hard to beat on stage.

As for supplements, they can, with no doubt, enhance the package I display on stage and I always stick to my quality Whey Protein, Creatine Monohydrate and L-Glutamine from Musclerage supplements.

You can also throw into the mix a good quality fat burner to help with your fat loss goals.

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Combine these basic products with a great nutrition plan and an effective weight training and cardio-vascular programme.

Come contest day, you will be big, full and with razor sharp definition.

Nutrition is simply a “tool”, which I use to get to where I want because contest or fat loss dieting is only as hard as you make it.

Here is a list of some food and replacements you should try to make;

Beverages with high fructose corn syrup or sugar. Replace with: Water.

Sugar-filled cereal. Replace with: Whole Grain Oatmeal.

Rich dairy products. Replace with: Fresh Vegetables

Refined/White Bread/Rice/Pasta. Replace with: Whole Grain Bread, brown rice or sweet potato.

Chips/Crackers and Packaged Sweets. Replace with: fresh or dried Fruit and remember to throw an assortment of fruit into the blender and whip up a healthy fibre-filled smoothie when your sweet tooth starts acting up.

Here is my typical daily meal guide for fat loss while I maintain my muscle mass from three weeks out until I am seven days out.

6am Breakfast (meal 1)

One banana, medium

Oatmeal with whey protein

9 am Snack (meal 2)

1/2 Tbsp. Peanut butter or avocado

6 boiled egg whites

12 noon Lunch (meal 3)

Sweet potato or 1/2 cup cooked brown rice

Chicken/white meat

3 pm Snack (meal 4)

One apple

Garden salad w/tomato & onion

Six boiled egg whites

5pm Dinner (meal 5)

1/2 cup cooked broccoli, no salt

Boiled chicken/fish

7pm Evening Snack (meal 6)

Cucumber

Six egg whites

Whey protein

Next week in this column, I am going to share with you how to calculate your body fat, how to measure your calories and why it’s important.

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