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    What are good things to eat to gain muscle?

    Aside from protein shakes and the like. What meals would be good for gaining muscle?
    Hopefully I'm making this easy to understand, but if I haven't please feel free to ask me to make it clearer.
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    you'll get more replies in the nutrition forum

    in the mean time.......brown rice bread pasta, oats, lean meat
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    Staples of my diet-Steak, eggs, gallons of milk, chicken wings, oats, pasta, fish oil
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    Originally Posted by matt297 View Post
    you'll get more replies in the nutrition forum
    Apologies, I will bear that in mind for the future.



    Thanks for the replies, but when you say eggs do you mean raw/fried/scrambled or does it not particularly matter?
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    I always have boiled eggs and toast for breakfast its a fetish of mine to dip me toast in
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    Originally Posted by JS93 View Post
    Apologies, I will bear that in mind for the future.



    Thanks for the replies, but when you say eggs do you mean raw/fried/scrambled or does it not particularly matter?
    each to their own really...some may argue about bio-availability and such like. i dont know enough about that to comment. i eat them boiled or scrambled. look at the stickies in the nutrition section there is great links to all the best 'egg' debates.
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    Originally Posted by JS93 View Post
    Aside from protein shakes and the like. What meals would be good for gaining muscle?
    Hopefully I'm making this easy to understand, but if I haven't please feel free to ask me to make it clearer.
    My diet consists mostly of eggs, tuna, chicken breast, cottage cheese, long grain white rice, whole wheat bread, oats.
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    lean protein, complex carbs, essential fatty acids,
    beef, chicken, pork, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, brown rice, tuna, salmon, natty pb, almond butter, mixed nuts, veggies
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    The most general advice is that if it doesn't grow from the ground or have a mother then you shouldn't eat it. Nutrient-dense carbs and animal proteins are what you need to eat to maintain or grow muscle. Shakes are great, too, but maximize real food.
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    Chicken and brown rice and veggies or chicken and sweet potatoes..
    eggs and oats
    etc those are just my 2 favs

    bascially lean meat and complex carbs are very nice...just make sure to eat alot
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    The more fats and cholesterol you get the better.

    Cholesterol and fats help regulate testosterone and most of your post workout recovery energy consumption comes from fats.

    I don't feel carbs are as good of a "bulking" agent as fats. They do have their place. They fuel your workout and there is the potentional for supercompensating glycogen stores post workout but eating high carbs and low fats is very over-hyped.

    Of course, the trump in all this is calories in vs. calories out. If you're eating over maintenance, you will gain weight.

    I would just prefer to keep my insulin levels low and my fats high while I did this.

    Edit: Eggs, nuts, cheese, steak, fatty mcfat burgers, peanut butter, olive oil, fish, etc
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    i just finish eat some prok chops, rice a roni and veggies
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