Why the Lean Mass Diet Will Work For You!

     Why the Lean Mass Diet Will Work For You!

Just Eat the Food, Tina

Gaining quality, lean mass is nearly impossible without enough calories.

Get the fork and knife ready, it’s time for some action! We spoke of the results

pyramid in Game Over—The Final Cut Diet You’ll Ever Need and it applies here

as well.

The Most Important Component—Synergy

We have all heard it before, “Diet is the most important thing.” From our

experience, this is partially correct. You can do a lot with diet, but without

adequate training with both resistance and with cardiovascular training, you will

be undermining your results. If you add in proven, effectively dosed

supplementation, you’ll be amazed at what these three components can do for

you.

The Big Hoax

“Gain 10 pounds in two weeks!” “Take this pill and mass is yours!” We

have all heard these promises, but yet we get tons of emails from people who

can’t gain weight. What gives? The answer is that we’ve been lied to. As

consumers and physique enthusiasts, we are always looking for the next big

thing and hoping for the magic pill. Unfortunately, there is no magic pill. Yes, we

believe in supplements and advocate their use. But for optimal results, the other

two corners cannot be ignored!

Why The Lean Mass Diet?

By eating small, frequent meals, you create a small insulin spike. By

eating infrequent meals, you cause a large insulin spike that will result in a crash

that can make the body more prone to fat storage. We do NOT want this! We

want to gain as much lean mass and as little fat as possible as possible. We

want maintain stable insulin levels throughout the day and provide frequent,

smaller meals to keep your metabolism revving and keep your body filled with

nutrients to provide your muscles with what they need to grow.

We also always include fat with our meals. When you eat fat with any

meal, especially one containing carbohydrates, it will encapsulate the

carbohydrates and make your body release insulin at a much slower and steady

rate than eating carbohydrates alone.

Why The Lean Mass Diet Works

The Lean Mass Diet takes many factors into consideration on a meal by meal

basis. The areas we pay the most attention to are:

• Amount of calories consumed

• Macronutrient composition

• Insulin control

• Maintaining an alkaline state

Using Food to Build Rock Hard, Dense Muscle

Eat Enough Calories, But Gage Your Progress!

You will probably eat more on this diet than any time in your life, the

biggest factor in a diet is calories in versus calories out. What the Lean Mass Diet

will do is give you the food choices and program you need to help fuel muscle

growth while keeping fat gain to an absolute minimum.

Macronutrient Manipulation

The key to gaining mass is to ensure you get the right amount of calories

and that those calories go toward lean mass, not fat. How do we do this? By

eating the right kind of food at the right time!

Insulin sensitivity is lowest at night and highest earlier in the day. What we

do is taper carbohydrates as the day goes on switching from starchy

carbohydrates to fibrous vegetables. This takes advantage of your body’s

biological rhythm and also allows you to eat carbohydrates when you tend to be

more active (during the day) and less when you are more inactive (nighttime).

Control insulin levels

• Eat 5-8 meals per day: Large meals create an enormous insulin spike,

which can cause your body to store fat. Small meals create a much

smaller insulin spike thus less fat storage and more fat loss.

• Never skip a meal: We don’t care if meal one was at the local buffet and

you ate until you had to unbutton your pants. Do not skip your second

meal! Keep the motor revving.

• Eat fat with every meal, especially meals containing carbohydrates.

• Do not combine carbohydrates and protein alone because this elicits the

highest insulin response. For example, a cup of oatmeal has a moderate

insulin response, but when you combine oatmeal with chicken, you get a

much higher response. If you do combine these, be sure to add a fat

source such as almonds or avocados.

Keep it Base

We are talking about controlling the acidity of your meals. Why would we

do this and why does it matter?

Your body's pH level is slightly alkaline, with a normal range of 7.36 to

7.44. To maintain optimal health and results, we should attempt to keep our body

in an alkaline state through diet. An imbalanced diet high in acidic foods can

make your body acidic. This can deplete the body of alkaline minerals such as

sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium, making people prone to chronic

and degenerative diseases and potentially disrupting nutrient absorption.

For example, when you eat a meal like Oatmeal and egg whites, you are

eating a very acidic meal. But when you put raisins and almonds in your Oatmeal

and have some steamed vegetables with it, you are lowering the acidity of that

meal drastically. All of our sample meals keep this factor in mind.